In the long history of American literary scholarship, few figures embody the transition from nineteenth-century genteel letters to modern academic criticism as thoroughly as Henry Augustin Beers. Born on July 2, 1847, in Buffalo, New York, and dying on September 7, 1926, in New Haven, Connecticut, Beers spent nearly his entire adult life at Yale University, where his slight frame became a beloved fixture on campus fo…
“He made the English language an organ of expression unexcelled in the history of literature. Yet he is not an English poet simply, but a world-poet.”
Neighbourhood:
American Poets, Edwardian Poets, Nature Poets, Victorian Poets
Emotional landscape: Wonder, Longing, Spirituality
Joseph Seamon Cotter Sr., born 12 February 1861 near Bardstown in Nelson County, Kentucky, and dead 14 March 1949 in Louisville, Kentucky, lived across one of the most consequential spans in African American history. He was born in the final weeks before the Civil War, came of age amid Reconstruction’s uncertain promises, worked and wrote through the entrenchment of Jim Crow, and survived long enough to witness the f…
Neighbourhood:
African American Poets, American Poets, Devotional Poets, Harlem Renaissance, Love Poets, Nature Poets, Social Justice Poets, Victorian Poets
Emotional landscape: Sorrow, Tenderness, Despair
