George Chapman emerged from the shadowed corners of Elizabethan England as one of its most formidable literary voices—a poet, playwright, and translator whose life bridged the raw vitality of the Renaissance stage and the lofty ideals of classical antiquity. Born around 1559 in the modest market town of Hitchin, Hertfordshire, some thirty miles north of London, he would grow into a figure who embodied the era’s restl…
“That Poesy should be as pervial as oratory, and plainness her special ornament, were the plain way to barbarism.”
Neighbourhood:
Classical & Ancient Poets, Dramatic Poets, Elizabethan Poets, Love Poets, Renaissance Poets
Emotional landscape: Spirituality, Longing, Tenderness
Quintus Horatius Flaccus, known in English as Horace, was born on 8 December 65 BC at Venusia, a Roman colony near the borderlands of Apulia and Lucania in southern Italy, and died at Rome on 27 November 8 BC. He lived through one of the most violent transformations in Roman history: the final collapse of the Republic, the civil wars that followed Julius Caesar’s assassination, and the consolidation of Augustus’ new…
“Mountains will labor, and a ridiculous mouse will be born.”
Neighbourhood:
Ancient & Classical Poets, Classical & Ancient Poets, Death & Mortality, Love Poets, Nature Poets
Emotional landscape: Longing, Sorrow, Sensuality
