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
Amy Lawrence Lowell emerged from the staid drawing rooms of Boston's Brahmin society to become one of the most controversial and influential poets of early twentieth-century America. Born on February 9, 1874, into one of New England's most distinguished families, she would spend her fifty-one years challenging literary conventions, championing new poetic forms, and leaving an indelible mark on American literature. He…
“It is a fluid and changing form, now prose, now verse, and permitting a great variety of treatment.”
Neighbourhood:
American Poets, Imagist Poets, LGBTQ+ Poets, Modernist Poets, Women Poets
Emotional landscape: Longing, Tenderness, Wonder
