Herbert Sherman Gorman entered the world in 1893 in Springfield, Massachusetts, a bustling industrial city nestled along the Connecticut River, where the hum of factories and the clang of railroads shaped the rhythms of daily life. Though the precise day of his birth remains unrecorded in many accounts, his arrival coincided with an America on the cusp of modernity, one foot still planted in the Victorian era and the…
“To be an artist is to accept a severe discipline, for true creation demands an unyielding commitment to inner necessity.”
Neighbourhood:
American Poets, Decadent Poets, Modernist Poets, Symbolist Poets
Emotional landscape: Despair, Sorrow, Longing
On a crisp December day in 1889, in the bustling industrial heart of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, William Hervey Allen Jr. entered the world. Born on December 8 to a middle-class family—his father, an inventive engineer who devised an automatic blast furnace stoker that helped power the steel mills—young Hervey grew up amid the clang of factories and the haze of smoke that defined the city’s relentless energy. He would…
“Legends are material to be moulded, and not facts to be recorded.”
Neighbourhood:
American Poets, Death & Mortality, Edwardian Poets, Modernist Poets, Nature Poets, War Poets
Emotional landscape: Irony, Wonder, Fear
