In the annals of literary history, few figures occupy as singular a position as Yone Noguchi, a Japanese poet who dared to write primarily in English during an era when such a choice seemed almost inconceivable. Born Yonejiro Noguchi on December 8, 1875, in the coastal town of Tsushima near Nagoya, Japan, he would become a pioneering voice in cross-cultural literature, a man who walked between East and West with rema…
“His Greek temperament and French culture became frost-bitten as a flower in the North.”
Neighbourhood:
Imagist Poets, Japanese Haiku Masters, Modernist Poets, Symbolist Poets
Emotional landscape: Wonder, Spirituality, Tenderness
Rabindranath Tagore, born on 7 May 1861 in Calcutta, Bengal Presidency, British India, and dead on 7 August 1941 in the same city, was one of the rare writers whose life seems inseparable from the cultural history of a nation. Yet to call him merely India’s greatest modern poet is to reduce an astonishingly various career. He was a lyric poet, songwriter, novelist, short-story writer, playwright, essayist, letter wri…
“Patriotism cannot be our final spiritual shelter; I will not buy glass for the price of diamonds.”
Neighbourhood:
Devotional Poets, Dramatic Poets, Mystical & Spiritual Poets, Poet-Musicians, Political Poets
Emotional landscape: Longing, Spirituality, Wonder
