Ebenezer Elliott was born on 17 March 1781 at Masbrough, near Rotherham, in the West Riding of Yorkshire, and died on 1 December 1849 at Great Houghton, near Barnsley. He became known in his own lifetime as the “Corn Law Rhymer,” a title at once admiring, limiting, and revealing. It identified him with the campaign against the laws that kept imported grain expensive and bread beyond the reach of many poor families, b…
“What is a communist? One who hath yearnings for equal division of unequal earnings: idler or bungler, or both, he is willing to fork out his penny and pocket your shilling.”
Neighbourhood:
Nature Poets, Political Poets, Social Justice Poets, Victorian Poets
Emotional landscape: Anger, Sorrow, Fear
Hannah More was born on 2 February 1745 at Fishponds, then a village near Bristol in Gloucestershire, and died on 7 September 1833 at Clifton, Bristol. During her long life she became, in succession and sometimes simultaneously, a schoolteacher, playwright, poet, essayist, novelist, religious writer, philanthropist, educational campaigner, abolitionist, and one of the most recognizable female public intellectuals in…
“Small habits, well pursued betimes, may reach the dignity of great and mighty virtues.”
Neighbourhood:
Augustan Poets, Devotional Poets, Political Poets, Women Poets
Emotional landscape: Spirituality, Joy, Peace
