In the pantheon of American poetry, few figures stand as simultaneously revered and controversial as Robinson Jeffers, the brooding visionary who built his stone tower on the wild coast of California and crafted verses as uncompromising as the granite cliffs that inspired them. Born John Robinson Jeffers on January 10, 1887, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, he would become one of the twentieth century's most distinctive…
“No lines of print will ever intoxicate me as Rossetti's rather florid verses did.”
Neighbourhood:
American Poets, Death & Mortality, Modernist Poets, Nature Poets, Political Poets
Emotional landscape: Longing, Spirituality, Wonder
David Herbert Lawrence was born on 11 September 1885 at 8a Victoria Street in Eastwood, Nottinghamshire, an English coal-mining town whose physical landscape, class divisions, and social pressures would remain central to his imagination. He was the fourth child of Arthur John Lawrence, a coal miner, and Lydia Beardsall Lawrence, née Beardsall, a former pupil-teacher from a family with stronger educational and middle-…
“Truth lives from day to day, and the marvellous Plato of yesterday is chiefly bosh to-day.”
Neighbourhood:
Edwardian Poets, Georgian Poets, Imagist Poets, Modernist Poets, Nature Poets
Emotional landscape: Longing, Wonder, Sorrow
