Henry Carey, poet, songwriter, composer, dramatist, performer, and irrepressible satirist, was born about 26 August 1687 and died on 5 October 1743. He belonged to that unusually fertile and unruly generation of English writers who worked in the crowded space between coffeehouse wit, commercial theater, political controversy, popular song, and the new culture of print. His name is not as immediately familiar as those…
“Being then young and obscure, he was very much ridicul'd by some of his Acquaintance for this Performance.”
Neighbourhood:
Folk & Ballad Poets, Georgian Poets, Light Verse Poets, Satirical Poets
Emotional landscape: Joy, Sensuality, Tenderness
Isobel Pagan, known in her own district as Tibbie Pagan, was born about 1740, probably near Nithhead in the parish of New Cumnock, Ayrshire, and died at Muirkirk on 3 November 1821. Her dates alone suggest a life that crossed extraordinary changes in Scottish society: she was born before the great age of Robert Burns, lived through the American and French Revolutions, witnessed the expansion of mining and ironworking…
“Was not that great nonsense?”
Neighbourhood:
Folk & Ballad Poets, Romantic Poets, Scottish Poets, Women Poets
Emotional landscape: Longing, Tenderness, Sorrow
