William Philpot was born on 16 April 1823 and died on 16 April 1889, completing a life of exactly sixty-six years. His career belongs to the enormous, uneven, and still incompletely recovered field of nineteenth-century poetry: the work of writers who published in small editions, contributed to local or denominational periodicals, read before societies, circulated manuscripts among friends, or gained recognition with…
“A large part of life is, or ought to be, spent in making up our imperfections and redeeming old mistakes.”
Neighbourhood:
Devotional Poets, Victorian Poets, Women Poets
Emotional landscape: Longing, Sorrow, Despair
Jeremiah Joseph Callanan, born in 1795 and dead on 19 September 1839, occupies a distinctive if sometimes precarious place in the history of nineteenth-century Irish poetry. He is remembered above all for poems that gave English-language readers access to the emotional force, compressed imagery, and historical sorrow of Irish Gaelic song. His best-known pieces, including “The Outlaw of Loch Lene,” “The Dirge of O’Sul…
Neighbourhood:
Irish Poets, Nature Poets, Romantic Poets, Victorian Poets
Emotional landscape: Longing, Tenderness, Sorrow
