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…
“We talk about revolution as if it was peanuts. What we need is some frank thinking and a few revolutions in our own guts.”
Neighbourhood:
American Poets, Edwardian Poets, Imagist Poets, Modernist Poets
Emotional landscape: Tenderness, Wonder, Peace
In the pantheon of Victorian literature, where names like Tennyson, Browning, and Christina Rossetti shine brightest, the figure of Mathilde Blind occupies a curious position—both central and marginal, celebrated and forgotten. Born into revolution and raised in exile, Blind carved out a unique space in the literary landscape of nineteenth-century Britain as a poet, translator, and pioneering feminist voice. Her life…
“From the present she turned to the past, from the native to the foreign, from the domestic to the historical.”
Neighbourhood:
Political Poets, Pre-Raphaelite Poets, Victorian Poets, Women Poets
Emotional landscape: Longing, Sorrow, Tenderness
