William Henry Davies, known throughout his writing life as W. H. Davies, was born on 3 July 1871 at 16 Portland Street in Newport, Monmouthshire, Wales, and died on 26 September 1940 in Nailsworth, Gloucestershire. He remains one of the most unusual figures in twentieth-century British literature: a poet of birds, rain, flowers, beggars, exhausted workers, roadside freedom, and the precarious dignity of people whom r…
“All the wildness had been taken out of me, and my adventures after this were not of my own seeking.”
Neighbourhood:
Edwardian Poets, Georgian Poets, Nature Poets, Welsh Poets
Emotional landscape: Tenderness, Wonder, Longing
Wilfrid Wilson Gibson was born in Hexham, Northumberland, on 2 June 1878, and died on 26 May 1962. During a long career that began in the shadow of late Victorian romanticism and continued through two world wars, he became one of the most distinctive English poets of the early twentieth century. He has often been placed, sometimes too conveniently, among the Georgian poets: writers associated with clear language, nat…
“My essential autobiography is told in my verse.”
Neighbourhood:
Edwardian Poets, Georgian Poets
Emotional landscape: Longing, Wonder, Spirituality
