1611 – present
7 live poems · English
The King James Bible, more accurately called the King James Version or Authorized Version, does not have a birth and death date in the ordinary biographical sense, because it is neither a person nor the work of a solitary author. Yet it has a remarkably vivid life story. “Born” in print in 1611, during the reign of James VI and I (born June 19, 1566; died March 27, 1625), it emerged from religious conflict, royal cal…
“We desire that the Scripture may speak like itself, as in the language of Canaan, that it may be understood even of the very vulgar.”
Neighbourhood:
Devotional Poets, Mystical & Spiritual Poets, Renaissance Poets
Emotional landscape: Spirituality, Peace, Wonder
Francis James Child, born in Boston, Massachusetts, on 1 February 1825 and dead in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on 11 September 1896, became one of the most consequential preservers of traditional verse in the English-speaking world. He was not a collector in the modern fieldworker’s sense: he did not chiefly travel from village to village with a notebook, recording singers’ performances and melodies as later folklorist…
Neighbourhood:
Folk & Ballad Poets, Victorian Poets
Emotional landscape: Sorrow, Longing, Despair
