On a warm August morning in 1841, in the quiet Staffordshire village of Caverswall, Robert Williams Buchanan was born on August 18. He entered a world already marked by ideological fervor and social upheaval, for his father, Robert Buchanan senior, was no ordinary parent but a passionate advocate of Robert Owen's socialist schemes, traveling the country as an itinerant lecturer preaching cooperation and radical socia…
“Morality in literature is, I think, far more intimately connected with the principle of sincerity of sight than any writer has yet had the courage to point out.”
Neighbourhood:
Love Poets, Pre-Raphaelite Poets, Victorian Poets
Emotional landscape: Sorrow, Despair, Longing
Michael Bruce was born on 27 March 1746 at Kinnesswood, a small village in the parish of Portmoak, Kinross-shire, Scotland, on the eastern shore of Loch Leven. His name has long been associated with the image of the gifted rural poet, cut down before maturity and remembered through a body of work shadowed by disputed authorship. That image contains a real pathos, but it can also obscure the particular circumstances o…
Neighbourhood:
Love Poets, Nature Poets, Romantic Poets, Scottish Poets
Emotional landscape: Longing, Sorrow, Despair
