William Carlos Williams was born on 17 September 1883 in Rutherford, New Jersey, and died there on 4 March 1963. Few American writers made such a compelling argument, through both their lives and their art, that poetry could be found not in a remote ideal realm but in the streets outside one’s door, in a patient’s anxious face, in a backyard garden, in a refrigerator, or beside a muddy chicken yard. He was a physicia…
“I wrote the whole damn thing with a change. I was thinking of terza rima, but gave up rime—the very vague imitation of Dante.”
Neighbourhood:
American Poets, Edwardian Poets, Imagist Poets, Modernist Poets
Emotional landscape: Tenderness, Wonder, Peace
In the annals of Scottish literature, few stories are as compelling as that of Alexander Anderson, the railway worker who earned fame under the moniker "Surfaceman" and whose poetry bridged the gap between the gritty reality of industrial Scotland and the refined world of Victorian letters. Born into humble circumstances and rising through sheer determination and literary talent, Anderson's life embodies the democrat…
“I put my whole heart into my verses, for they are the direct outcome of what I have felt and seen.”
Neighbourhood:
Edwardian Poets, Folk & Ballad Poets, Nature Poets, Scottish Poets, Victorian Poets
Emotional landscape: Tenderness, Spirituality, Longing
