Rabindranath Tagore, born on 7 May 1861 in Calcutta, Bengal Presidency, British India, and dead on 7 August 1941 in the same city, was one of the rare writers whose life seems inseparable from the cultural history of a nation. Yet to call him merely India’s greatest modern poet is to reduce an astonishingly various career. He was a lyric poet, songwriter, novelist, short-story writer, playwright, essayist, letter wri…
“The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.”
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Devotional Poets, Dramatic Poets, Mystical & Spiritual Poets, Poet-Musicians, Political Poets
Emotional landscape: Longing, Spirituality, Wonder
In the turbulent landscape of early twentieth-century literature, few writers navigated the transition from Victorian sensibilities to modernist innovation with the skill and prescience of May Sinclair. Born Mary Amelia St. Clair Sinclair on August 24, 1863, in Rock Ferry, Cheshire, and dying on November 14, 1946, in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, Sinclair lived through one of the most transformative periods in literary…
“This country is formed for the very expression of peace.”
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LGBTQ+ Poets, Modernist Poets, Women Poets
Emotional landscape: Spirituality, Wonder, Irony
