In the vast and often storm-tossed landscape of American literature, certain voices emerge not from the bustling centers of culture, but from the quiet, salt-sprayed margins. Celia Laighton Thaxter, born on June 29, 1835, on the windswept island of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, was such a voice—a poet whose work bloomed with the wildflowers of the Isles of Shoals, whose verses carried the rhythm of the Atlantic tides, a…
“Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.”
Neighbourhood:
American Poets, Nature Poets, Victorian Poets, Women Poets
Emotional landscape: Longing, Sorrow, Tenderness
Edna Wahlert McCourt, born Edna Wahlert on 19 July 1887 and dead on 4 January 1963, belonged to a generation of American women writers whose literary lives were often sustained through friendship, little magazines, local institutions, family networks, and persistent private labor rather than through the highly visible routes to fame available to a few celebrated contemporaries. She is remembered principally as a poet…
“Even a dumb man, I believed, would manage to convey to any willing listener a chronicle of his own little story.”
Neighbourhood:
American Poets, Death & Mortality, Devotional Poets, Love Poets, Modernist Poets, Mystical & Spiritual Poets, Nature Poets, Women Poets
Emotional landscape: Wonder, Longing, Spirituality
