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
John Kenyon, born on 2 December 1784 in Trelawny Parish, Jamaica, and dead on 3 December 1856 at Cowes on the Isle of Wight, was a minor poet of the Romantic and early Victorian periods but a major presence in the social history of English literature. His own poems, polished, conscientious, and occasionally touching, have never commanded the attention given to the work of his celebrated friends. Yet Kenyon’s life mat…
Neighbourhood:
Romantic Poets, Victorian Poets, Women Poets
Emotional landscape: Joy, Sensuality, Wonder
