William Stanley Beaumont Braithwaite entered the world on December 6, 1878, in Boston, Massachusetts, a city pulsing with literary ambition and the lingering echoes of abolitionist fervor. He departed it on June 8, 1962, at his home on Edgecombe Avenue in Harlem, New York, after a brief illness, at the age of eighty-three. In the eighty-three years between those dates, Braithwaite forged a remarkable life as poet, cr…
“It is not intellect that has brought this about; less has it been due to education; it has been due to character and character is the expression of habits and ideas.”
Neighbourhood:
African American Poets, American Poets, Harlem Renaissance, Love Poets, Nature Poets
Emotional landscape: Joy, Wonder, Peace
In the pantheon of American poets, Sidney Lanier occupies a singular position—a musician who wielded verse with the same technical mastery he brought to his flute, a Southern gentleman who sought to reconcile the fractured soul of his native region with the progressive ideals of a nation transformed by war. Born on February 3, 1842, in Macon, Georgia, and dying tragically young on September 7, 1881, in Lynn, North Ca…
“Music is love in search of a voice.”
Neighbourhood:
American Poets, Devotional Poets, Hymn Writers, Love Poets, Mystical & Spiritual Poets, Nature Poets, Poet-Musicians, Victorian Poets
Emotional landscape: Tenderness, Sorrow, Spirituality
