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…
“Writing, without something urgently requiring to be said, ends in imitation, restoration, selection.”
Neighbourhood:
Pre-Raphaelite Poets, Scottish Poets, Victorian Poets
Emotional landscape: Longing, Wonder, Spirituality
John Keble was born on 25 April 1792 at Fairford in Gloucestershire, into a household where religion, learning, family affection, and the rhythms of rural England were closely joined. He would become one of the most widely read poets of nineteenth-century Britain, a distinguished Oxford scholar, a parish priest of unusual devotion, and a formative figure in the movement that sought to recover the Catholic and sacrame…
Neighbourhood:
Devotional Poets, Victorian Poets, Women Poets
Emotional landscape: Sorrow, Longing, Spirituality
