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…
“Religion gives us ideals; science gives us command; morals give us justice; arts, beauty; medicine preserves and improves the body; civil law defends us against ourselves.”
Neighbourhood:
Pre-Raphaelite Poets, Scottish Poets, Victorian Poets
Emotional landscape: Longing, Wonder, Spirituality
Joseph Seamon Cotter Sr., born 12 February 1861 near Bardstown in Nelson County, Kentucky, and dead 14 March 1949 in Louisville, Kentucky, lived across one of the most consequential spans in African American history. He was born in the final weeks before the Civil War, came of age amid Reconstruction’s uncertain promises, worked and wrote through the entrenchment of Jim Crow, and survived long enough to witness the f…
Neighbourhood:
African American Poets, American Poets, Devotional Poets, Harlem Renaissance, Love Poets, Nature Poets, Social Justice Poets, Victorian Poets
Emotional landscape: Sorrow, Tenderness, Despair
