Helen Hunt Jackson, born Helen Maria Fiske on 15 October 1830 in Amherst, Massachusetts, and dead on 12 August 1885 in San Francisco, California, lived a life shaped by literary ambition, devastating bereavement, restless travel, and an increasingly fierce commitment to justice for Native peoples. She achieved wide fame in her own century as a poet, essayist, travel writer, novelist, and public intellectual. Today sh…
“The Indian has been made to feel that he is an alien in the land which was once all his own.”
Neighbourhood:
American Poets, Nature Poets, Victorian Poets, Women Poets
Emotional landscape: Sorrow, Spirituality, Wonder
Francis Sylvester Mahony was born in Cork, Ireland, on 31 December 1805, and died in Paris on 18 May 1866. He is remembered under the name “Father Prout,” the comic clerical persona through which he produced some of the most ingenious literary journalism of the nineteenth century. Yet the witty priest of Watergrasshill, the supposed author of multilingual songs, mock-antiquarian discoveries, and extravagant literary…
“a rare combination of the Teian lyre and the Irish bagpipe; of the Ionian dialect, blending harmoniously with the Cork brogue; an Irish potato seasoned with Attic salt.”
Neighbourhood:
Irish Poets, Light Verse Poets, Victorian Poets
Emotional landscape: Longing, Tenderness, Joy
