Coventry Kersey Dighton Patmore was born on 23 July 1823 at Woodford, then a village in Essex on the eastern edge of London, and died on 26 November 1896 at Lymington in Hampshire. During his lifetime he became one of the most distinctive, admired, mocked, and misunderstood English poets of the Victorian age. His reputation rests above all on The Angel in the House, a long poetic sequence whose title became inseparab…
“Heaven, Earth, Sea, and Hell witness with a thousand voices the secret which is the sole felicity of man; and almost all men refuse to hear.”
Neighbourhood:
Devotional Poets, Love Poets, Mystical & Spiritual Poets, Victorian Poets
Emotional landscape: Sorrow, Longing, Tenderness
Dorothy Wordsworth was born on 25 December 1771 in Cockermouth, Cumberland, in the English Lake District, and died on 25 January 1855 at Rydal Mount, Westmorland. For much of the nineteenth century, she was remembered chiefly as the devoted sister and household companion of William Wordsworth, the poet whose name became central to English Romanticism. Modern readers, however, increasingly encounter her as a writer of…
“The moon was shining upon the lake, and the hills were dark shadows.”
Neighbourhood:
Nature Poets, Romantic Poets, Women Poets
Emotional landscape: Tenderness, Longing, Sorrow
