In the brilliant constellation of nineteenth-century New England intellectuals, Maria White Lowell shines with a particular poignancy—not merely because her light was extinguished too soon, but because her influence radiated far beyond the slim volume of verses published after her death. Born Anna Maria White on July 8, 1821, in Watertown, Massachusetts, she lived only thirty-two years, yet in that brief span she tra…
“I always say just what I think, as you see, and I trust it will not seem unlovely to you in me as a woman. I do not wish to appear so, but I had rather than give up what I think is truly and undeniably one of woman’s rights in common with men.”
Neighbourhood:
American Poets, Devotional Poets, Love Poets, Romantic Poets, Transcendentalists, Women Poets
Emotional landscape: Despair, Sorrow, Longing
Joaquin Miller, born Cincinnatus Hiner Miller on September 8, 1837, and dead on February 17, 1913, lived a life that seemed designed to invite legend. He was a poet, journalist, lawyer, teacher, dramatist, lecturer, rancher, and relentless self-inventor. To admirers in the nineteenth century, he was the “Poet of the Sierras,” a bard who had given the American West its own grand, romantic voice. To skeptics, he was an…
“Man reads too much and reasons too little. Great artists are not great readers but great observers.”
Neighbourhood:
American Poets, Folk & Ballad Poets, Love Poets, Nature Poets, Victorian Poets
Emotional landscape: Sorrow, Despair, Longing
