William Henry Davies, known throughout his writing life as W. H. Davies, was born on 3 July 1871 at 16 Portland Street in Newport, Monmouthshire, Wales, and died on 26 September 1940 in Nailsworth, Gloucestershire. He remains one of the most unusual figures in twentieth-century British literature: a poet of birds, rain, flowers, beggars, exhausted workers, roadside freedom, and the precarious dignity of people whom r…
“Whatever the consequence might be, even if this rough life threatened to injure my health permanently, I was firmly resolved to sacrifice the next six months for whatever might follow them.”
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Edwardian Poets, Georgian Poets, Nature Poets, Welsh Poets
Emotional landscape: Tenderness, Wonder, Longing
James Nack, born 4 January 1809 and dead on 23 September 1879, occupies a curious and important place in the literary history of the United States. He was a poet whose reputation, during the most active years of his career, rested as much upon the apparent improbability of his achievement as upon the verse itself. Nack was deaf, and nineteenth-century readers repeatedly treated that fact as the central explanation fo…
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American Poets, Death & Mortality, Light Verse Poets, Love Poets, Victorian Poets
Emotional landscape: Longing, Tenderness, Wonder
