Richard Realf stands as one of the most enigmatic and poignant figures in nineteenth-century American poetry—a man whose extraordinary talents were matched only by the turbulence of his existence. Born on June 14, 1832, in the quiet village of Framfield in East Sussex, England, and dying by his own hand on October 28, 1878, in Oakland, California, Realf's forty-six years traced an arc of brilliance and despair, ideal…
“I have erred greatly in my life, and suffered greatly, but I have always been a servant and never a hireling of the truth.”
Neighbourhood:
American Poets, Death & Mortality, Nature Poets, Political Poets, Social Justice Poets, Victorian Poets
Emotional landscape: Wonder, Spirituality, Longing
Philip Morin Freneau was born on 2 January 1752 in New York City and died on 18 December 1832 near his home in Monmouth County, New Jersey. During his long and restless life, he became a poet, sailor, merchant, editor, polemicist, farmer, husband, father, and partisan journalist. He has often been called the “Poet of the American Revolution,” a useful but incomplete title. Freneau did give memorable literary shape to…
“This is the last time I shall enter into such a business; it worries me to death and by no means suits my giddy, wandring brain.”
Neighbourhood:
American Poets, Augustan Poets, Colonial American Poets, Nature Poets, Political Poets, Romantic Poets, Social Justice Poets
Emotional landscape: Tenderness, Sorrow, Despair
