In the pantheon of early twentieth-century British poetry, few figures occupy a more curious position than Gordon Bottomley—a man who spent much of his life confined by illness yet created some of the most ambitious and visually striking verse dramas of his era. Neither wholly Georgian nor fully Modernist, Bottomley carved out a distinctive space in English letters, one characterized by medieval reverie, Celtic mysti…
“The poetic drama is, indeed, not so much a representation of a theme as a meditation upon it or a distillation from it; its business is far less the simulation of life than the evocation and isolation for our delight of the elements of beauty and spiritual illumination in the perhaps terrible and always serious theme chosen.”
Neighbourhood:
Death & Mortality, Dramatic Poets, Edwardian Poets, Georgian Poets, Modernist Poets, Nature Poets
Emotional landscape: Longing, Sorrow, Wonder
Richard Le Gallienne, born Richard Thomas Gallienne in Liverpool on 20 January 1866 and dead at Menton, France, on 15 September 1947, lived long enough to become both a participant in and a chronicler of several literary ages. He began as an ambitious young poet of the late Victorian aesthetic movement, came to public notice amid the bright notoriety of the 1890s, crossed the Atlantic to remake himself for an America…
“A wholesome oblivion of one's neighbours is the beginning of wisdom.”
Neighbourhood:
Decadent Poets, LGBTQ+ Poets, Love Poets
Emotional landscape: Despair, Sorrow, Longing
