James Augustine Aloysius Joyce was born on 2 February 1882 at 41 Brighton Square, Rathgar, then a prosperous southern suburb of Dublin, and died on 13 January 1941 in Zürich, Switzerland. He is most often called a novelist, and rightly so: Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses, and Finnegans Wake altered the possibilities of prose fiction. Yet Joyce was also a poet, a singer, a critic, a dramati…
“Every age must look for its sanction to its poetry and philosophy, for in these the human mind, as it looks backward or forward, attains to an eternal state.”
Neighbourhood:
Irish Poets, Modernist Poets, Poet-Musicians
Emotional landscape: Longing, Tenderness, Wonder
David Herbert Lawrence was born on 11 September 1885 at 8a Victoria Street in Eastwood, Nottinghamshire, an English coal-mining town whose physical landscape, class divisions, and social pressures would remain central to his imagination. He was the fourth child of Arthur John Lawrence, a coal miner, and Lydia Beardsall Lawrence, née Beardsall, a former pupil-teacher from a family with stronger educational and middle-…
“Thus it would seem that the term unconscious is only another word for life.”
Neighbourhood:
Edwardian Poets, Georgian Poets, Imagist Poets, Modernist Poets, Nature Poets
Emotional landscape: Longing, Wonder, Sorrow
