William Sharp was born on 12 September 1855 in Paisley, Renfrewshire, at a time when Scotland’s industrial towns were expanding rapidly but remained surrounded, in memory and imagination, by older rural worlds. He would become one of the most energetic and versatile literary figures of the late Victorian period: a poet, critic, biographer, editor, translator, anthologist, travel writer, and cultural interpreter. Yet…
“I know Keats far better through his letters than by even the ablest and most intimate memoirs.”
Neighbourhood:
Mystical & Spiritual Poets, Pre-Raphaelite Poets, Scottish Poets, Symbolist Poets
Emotional landscape: Wonder, Joy, Peace
William Wilfred Campbell, often known simply as Wilfred Campbell, stands as one of the most distinctive voices in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Canadian literature. A member of the Confederation Poets—the group that gave Canada its first truly national literary flowering after 1867—he captured the raw, majestic spirit of the Canadian landscape with a passion that still stirs the imagination today. His…
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Edwardian Poets, Nature Poets, Victorian Poets
Emotional landscape: Peace, Wonder, Tenderness
