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…
“Of course you can always say such a thing ‘sounds shivery’, but I question the propriety of omitting the word ‘like’.”
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Death & Mortality, Devotional Poets, Love Poets, Nature Poets, Victorian Poets
Emotional landscape: Spirituality, Longing, Tenderness
John Stuart Blackie entered the world on a bright summer day, 28 July 1809, in a modest house on Charlotte Street in Glasgow, Scotland. The eldest son of Alexander Blackie, a Kelso-born banker who would later manage the Commercial Bank in Aberdeen, and his wife Helen Stodart, the boy was born into a family of solid middle-class respectability amid the bustling industrial heart of Scotland. His early years were marked…
“A man should know something of everything and everything of something.”
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Devotional Poets, Hymn Writers, Love Poets, Scottish Poets, Victorian Poets
Emotional landscape: Spirituality, Peace, Wonder
