Richard Henry Dana, born on 15 November 1787 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and dead there on 2 February 1879, belonged to the first generation of American writers who attempted to make literature in the young republic something more than a colonial echo of English models. He was a poet, critic, editor, lawyer, lecturer, and influential member of Boston’s literary world. Yet he has long occupied an unstable place in li…
“There was certainly some mistake about the time of my birth—I'm an impersonated Anachronism.”
Neighbourhood:
American Poets, Love Poets, Nature Poets, Romantic Poets, Victorian Poets
Emotional landscape: Sorrow, Despair, Longing
George Reginald Margetson was a poet whose life and work embodied the quiet heroism of the immigrant dreamer, the working-class visionary who carved verses from the clang of machinery and the weight of family responsibilities. Born in the sun-drenched hills of St. Kitts in the British West Indies and later transplanted to the industrial bustle of early twentieth-century Boston, Margetson (1877–c.1952) produced a body…
Neighbourhood:
African American Poets, American Poets, Death & Mortality, Devotional Poets, Edwardian Poets, Hymn Writers, Mystical & Spiritual Poets
Emotional landscape: Peace, Spirituality, Sorrow
