Samuel Taylor Coleridge was born on 21 October 1772 in Ottery St Mary, Devon, and died on 25 July 1834 at Highgate, near London. He occupies an unusual and commanding place in English literary history: he was at once one of the makers of Romantic poetry, a revolutionary critic of Shakespeare and poetic language, a philosophical mediator between German idealism and English thought, a political journalist, a religious…
“That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.”
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Dramatic Poets, Mystical & Spiritual Poets, Nature Poets, Political Poets, Romantic Poets
Emotional landscape: Wonder, Spirituality, Longing
Richard Crashaw (c.1613 – 25 August 1649) stands as one of the most distinctive and polarising voices of seventeenth-century English poetry. A poet of spiritual excess, luminous devotion, and baroque extravagance, Crashaw occupies a singular position among the so-called Metaphysical poets. Where contemporaries such as Donne and Herbert often balance intellectual ingenuity with restraint, Crashaw abandons moderation a…
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Devotional Poets, Metaphysical Poets, Mystical & Spiritual Poets
Emotional landscape: Longing, Tenderness, Sorrow
