In the grand tapestry of Victorian literature, where titans like Tennyson, Browning, and Arnold cast long shadows across the poetic landscape, there exist quieter voices whose contributions, though perhaps less monumental, possess their own distinctive charm and significance. Edward James Mortimer Collins (29 June 1827 – 28 July 1876) was an English novelist, journalist and poet whose work embodied "light grace, thei…
“Hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander.”
Neighbourhood:
Light Verse Poets, Love Poets, Victorian Poets
Emotional landscape: Tenderness, Longing, Joy
Charles Tennyson Turner was born Charles Turner on 4 July 1808 at Somersby Rectory in Lincolnshire, and died on 25 April 1879 at Grasby, also in Lincolnshire. He lived during the long Victorian transformation of English literary culture, yet his own life retained a strongly local character: he was a country clergyman, a husband, a brother in an unusually gifted family, and a poet whose finest achievements were small…
“John, a melancholy change has taken place in our house since I saw you last.”
Neighbourhood:
Death & Mortality, Devotional Poets, Love Poets, Nature Poets, Victorian Poets
Emotional landscape: Spirituality, Longing, Tenderness
