Eunice Tietjens was born in Chicago, Illinois, on 29 July 1884, into a city whose energy, contradictions, and cultural ambitions would shape the rest of her life. She died in the same city on 6 September 1944, after a career that had carried her across the United States, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. During those sixty years, she became known not only as a poet but also as a journalist, traveler, lecturer, edito…
“But from that evening some floodgate had broken in me and I was beginning to be awake.”
Neighbourhood:
American Poets, Modernist Poets, Social Justice Poets, Women Poets
Emotional landscape: Sorrow, Irony, Despair
Joseph Milton Hayes, known to the public as J. Milton Hayes, was born in Bristol on 13 January 1884 and died on 6 February 1940. During his lifetime he became one of the best-known writers of recitation verse in Britain, a poet whose work was heard as often as it was read. His celebrity rested especially on “The Green Eye of the Little Yellow God,” a narrative poem whose opening line, “There’s a one-eyed yellow idol…
Neighbourhood:
Folk & Ballad Poets, Light Verse Poets
Emotional landscape: Sorrow, Despair, Longing
