Alfred Tennyson, later Alfred, Lord Tennyson, was born on 6 August 1809 at Somersby rectory in Lincolnshire, England, and died on 6 October 1892 at Lurgashall in Sussex. During his long life he became the defining poetic voice of the Victorian age: at once a public laureate who wrote for national occasions and a private, searching poet whose work returned obsessively to bereavement, desire, religious uncertainty, mem…
“Beware of breaking up the soil of any Faith, when you have no better seed to sow.”
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Devotional Poets, Dramatic Poets, Nature Poets, Victorian Poets
Emotional landscape: Wonder, Longing, Sorrow
“Aytoun was one of those rare spirits who could marry wit with patriotism, and scholarship with song.” William Edmondstoune Aytoun was born on the 21st of June, 1813, in Edinburgh — that granite nest of poets, philosophers, and lawyers, often called the ‘Athens of the North’. To be born in Edinburgh in the early nineteenth century was, for a young man of letters, a sort of birthright into Scotland’s intellectual aris…
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Folk & Ballad Poets, Light Verse Poets, Scottish Poets, Victorian Poets
Emotional landscape: Tenderness, Joy, Peace
