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.”
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American Poets, Love Poets, Nature Poets, Romantic Poets, Victorian Poets
Emotional landscape: Sorrow, Despair, Longing
Thomas Lovell Beddoes was born on 30 June 1803 at Clifton, then a fashionable suburb near Bristol, and died at Basel, Switzerland, on 26 January 1849. He occupies an unusual and enduring position in English literature: neither comfortably Romantic nor Victorian, neither wholly a poet nor wholly a dramatist, neither merely a physician nor merely an eccentric amateur of science. His work belongs to the dark afterlife o…
“I am a poet, and therefore I am a liar.”
Neighbourhood:
Death & Mortality, Decadent Poets, Dramatic Poets, Metaphysical Poets, Victorian Poets
Emotional landscape: Longing, Sorrow, Despair
