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…
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Neighbourhood:
Irish Poets, Modernist Poets, Poet-Musicians
Emotional landscape: Longing, Tenderness, Wonder
Joseph Seamon Cotter Sr., born 12 February 1861 near Bardstown in Nelson County, Kentucky, and dead 14 March 1949 in Louisville, Kentucky, lived across one of the most consequential spans in African American history. He was born in the final weeks before the Civil War, came of age amid Reconstruction’s uncertain promises, worked and wrote through the entrenchment of Jim Crow, and survived long enough to witness the f…
Neighbourhood:
African American Poets, American Poets, Devotional Poets, Harlem Renaissance, Love Poets, Nature Poets, Social Justice Poets, Victorian Poets
Emotional landscape: Sorrow, Tenderness, Despair
