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…
“Variety of translations is profitable for the finding out of the sense of the Scriptures.”
Neighbourhood:
Devotional Poets, Mystical & Spiritual Poets, Renaissance Poets
Emotional landscape: Spirituality, Peace, Wonder
In the flickering light of Elizabethan England, where the flames of religious persecution cast long shadows over the realm of Queen Elizabeth I, Robert Southwell stands as one of the most compelling figures in English literary and spiritual history. Born around 1561 and executed in 1595 at the tender age of thirty-three or thirty-four, Southwell was at once a Jesuit priest risking everything for his faith, a clandest…
Neighbourhood:
Death & Mortality, Devotional Poets, Elizabethan Poets, Metaphysical Poets, Mystical & Spiritual Poets, Renaissance Poets
Emotional landscape: Sorrow, Despair, Fear
