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…
“Indeed, the Negro novel is one of the great potentialities of American literature.”
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African American Poets, American Poets, Harlem Renaissance, Love Poets, Nature Poets
Emotional landscape: Joy, Wonder, Peace
William Wilfred Campbell, often known simply as Wilfred Campbell, stands as one of the most distinctive voices in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Canadian literature. A member of the Confederation Poets—the group that gave Canada its first truly national literary flowering after 1867—he captured the raw, majestic spirit of the Canadian landscape with a passion that still stirs the imagination today. His…
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Edwardian Poets, Nature Poets, Victorian Poets
Emotional landscape: Peace, Wonder, Tenderness
