Charles Tennyson Turner was born Charles Turner on 4 July 1808 at Somersby Rectory in Lincolnshire, and died on 25 April 1879 at Grasby, also in Lincolnshire. He lived during the long Victorian transformation of English literary culture, yet his own life retained a strongly local character: he was a country clergyman, a husband, a brother in an unusually gifted family, and a poet whose finest achievements were small…
“I do not accuse Buchanan of this, but, whether he himself is aware of it or not, it (his very sweet little poem) is somewhat too suggestive.”
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Death & Mortality, Devotional Poets, Love Poets, Nature Poets, Victorian Poets
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Theodore Tilton stands as one of America's most complex literary figures of the nineteenth century—a man whose poetry spoke to universal truths about the human condition while his personal life became entangled in one of the most scandalous trials of the Victorian era. Born on October 2, 1835, in New York City, and dying in self-imposed exile in Paris on May 29, 1907, Tilton's seventy-two years encompassed the full s…
“If you were living in America, as I am, an eye-witness of the cruel despotism which here flourishes under the shadow of a free flag.”
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American Poets, Devotional Poets, Love Poets, Social Justice Poets, Victorian Poets
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