Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, born Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin on 30 August 1797 and dead on 1 February 1851, occupied an extraordinary position in British literary history from the beginning of her life. She was the daughter of two of the most provocative writers of the late eighteenth century: the political philosopher William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft, author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. Her name ha…
“I saw—with shut eyes, but acute mental vision—I saw the pale student of unhallowed arts kneeling beside the thing he had put together.”
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Mystical & Spiritual Poets, Romantic Poets, Women Poets
Emotional landscape: Longing, Tenderness, Sorrow
Letitia Elizabeth Landon, born on 14 August 1802 in Chelsea, London, and dead on 15 October 1838 at Cape Coast Castle on the Gold Coast, was one of the most celebrated, industrious, and misunderstood writers of the British Romantic period. Known to her immense contemporary readership by the initials “L.E.L.,” she became a literary phenomenon while still very young: a poet whose verses appeared week after week in maga…
“Time is the great leveller, but he is also the sanctifier and the beautifier.”
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Love Poets, Romantic Poets, Women Poets
Emotional landscape: Sorrow, Despair, Longing
