William Bell Scott was born in Edinburgh on 12 September 1811, into a family in which art was both a livelihood and an atmosphere. He was the eldest surviving son of Robert Scott, an engraver of considerable skill and a man of strong intellectual interests, and Ross Bell Scott. The household was not wealthy, but it was rich in artistic ambition, professional discipline, books, conversation, and the practical awarenes…
“We often say in the battle of life as in the game of chess—Had I only played this, and not that!”
Neighbourhood:
Pre-Raphaelite Poets, Scottish Poets, Victorian Poets
Emotional landscape: Longing, Wonder, Spirituality
In the shadowed legacy of America's post-Reconstruction South, where the ghosts of slavery still whispered through cotton fields and river mists, Edward Smyth Jones emerged as a voice of quiet defiance and luminous hope. Born in March 1881 in Natchez, Mississippi, to Hawk and Rebecca Jones—parents who had known the brutal chains of enslavement before emancipation—Jones inherited a world of profound limitation and bou…
Neighbourhood:
African American Poets, Devotional Poets, Love Poets, Nature Poets, Social Justice Poets
Emotional landscape: Peace, Spirituality, Tenderness
