Anne Bradstreet was born Anne Dudley in 1612 in Northampton, England, into a family unusually well positioned to cultivate both religious seriousness and intellectual ambition. Her precise birth date is uncertain, though she was baptized on March 20, 1612. She entered the world during the reign of James I, in an England defined by political conflict, religious controversy, expanding trade, and the vigorous literary a…
“Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending.”
Neighbourhood:
American Poets, Colonial American Poets, Devotional Poets, Restoration Poets, Women Poets
Emotional landscape: Longing, Spirituality, Sorrow
George Kirbye, who died on 6 October 1634 and was probably born around 1565, belongs to the generation of English composers that brought the madrigal to one of its most graceful and expressive flowering points. He was a contemporary of Thomas Morley, John Wilbye, Thomas Weelkes, and John Bennet: musicians who absorbed Italian models and made them speak with a distinctly English accent. Kirbye was not among the most p…
Neighbourhood:
Elizabethan Poets, Lute-Song Composers
Emotional landscape: Wonder, Spirituality, Joy
