Robert Browning was born on 7 May 1812 at Southampton Cottage, Camberwell, then a semi-rural district south of London, and died on 12 December 1889 in Venice. Few English poets have combined such audacity of intellect, dramatic energy, moral curiosity, and technical resourcefulness. During his lifetime he moved from the position of a puzzling, frequently mocked young writer to that of a revered elder of Victorian let…
“I believe the fault comes from a too-sweet sense of the freedom of being true with you, telling you all, hiding nothing.”
Neighbourhood:
Dramatic Poets, Love Poets, Pre-Raphaelite Poets, Victorian Poets
Emotional landscape: Tenderness, Longing, Wonder
Hannah More was born on 2 February 1745 at Fishponds, then a village near Bristol in Gloucestershire, and died on 7 September 1833 at Clifton, Bristol. During her long life she became, in succession and sometimes simultaneously, a schoolteacher, playwright, poet, essayist, novelist, religious writer, philanthropist, educational campaigner, abolitionist, and one of the most recognizable female public intellectuals in…
“Small habits, well pursued betimes, may reach the dignity of great and mighty virtues.”
Neighbourhood:
Augustan Poets, Devotional Poets, Political Poets, Women Poets
Emotional landscape: Spirituality, Joy, Peace
