Robert Cunninghame-Graham, later more commonly styled Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham of Gartmore and Finlaystone, was born in 1735 and died at Gartmore on 11 December 1797. He is remembered, if at all, by most readers for a single durable lyric, “If Doughty Deeds My Lady Please,” a poem whose compact music and courtly ardour secured it a place in Victorian anthologies and in the repertory of composers. Yet the poe…
“The greatest luxury in life is to be able to do what you like, when you like, and how you like.”
Neighbourhood:
Light Verse Poets, Romantic Poets, Scottish Poets, Social Justice Poets
Emotional landscape: Longing, Tenderness, Joy
William Shenstone was born on 18 November 1714 at the Leasowes, near Halesowen, then an unusual detached portion of Shropshire surrounded by Worcestershire and now within the West Midlands. He died at the Leasowes on 11 February 1763, not yet forty-nine years old. His reputation has never rested on a vast body of poetry or on one overwhelming masterpiece. Rather, it arises from a distinctive and influential life in w…
“I have no notion of a happy life, but a happy moment.”
Neighbourhood:
Georgian Poets, Light Verse Poets, Nature Poets
Emotional landscape: Peace, Joy, Longing
