Alice Dunbar Nelson was born Alice Ruth Moore on July 19, 1875, in the bustling, sun-drenched city of New Orleans, Louisiana, a place where the Mississippi River whispered stories of resilience and reinvention into the ears of its diverse inhabitants. She died on September 18, 1935, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, at the age of sixty, her heart finally succumbing to the strains of a life lived with fierce passion and…
“The life of service; the life of unselfish giving — this must Livingstone's life mean to us.”
Neighbourhood:
African American Poets, American Poets, Harlem Renaissance, LGBTQ+ Poets, Social Justice Poets, Women Poets
Emotional landscape: Longing, Sorrow, Despair
Lionel Pigot Johnson was born on 15 March 1867 at Broadstairs, Kent, and died in London on 4 October 1902. His life lasted only thirty-five years, yet it occupied a peculiarly important position in the literary history of the 1890s. He was a poet of the English Decadence, a Catholic convert, an Irish cultural nationalist of a nuanced and literary kind, a gifted critic, and a man whose private suffering became insepar…
Neighbourhood:
Decadent Poets, Edwardian Poets, LGBTQ+ Poets, Symbolist Poets
Emotional landscape: Spirituality, Sorrow, Peace
