Joanna Baillie was born on 11 September 1762 at the manse of Bothwell, near Hamilton in Lanarkshire, Scotland, and died on 23 February 1851 at Hampstead, then a village on the northern edge of London. During her exceptionally long life, she became one of the most admired British writers of the Romantic period: a poet of acute observation, an ambitious theorist of the emotions, a dramatist who sought to renew tragedy…
“From that strong sympathy which most creatures, but the human above all, feel for others of their kind, nothing has become so much an object of man's curiosity as man himself.”
Neighbourhood:
Dramatic Poets, Love Poets, Nature Poets, Romantic Poets, Scottish Poets, Women Poets
Emotional landscape: Tenderness, Joy, Longing
Michael Bruce was born on 27 March 1746 at Kinnesswood, a small village in the parish of Portmoak, Kinross-shire, Scotland, on the eastern shore of Loch Leven. His name has long been associated with the image of the gifted rural poet, cut down before maturity and remembered through a body of work shadowed by disputed authorship. That image contains a real pathos, but it can also obscure the particular circumstances o…
Neighbourhood:
Love Poets, Nature Poets, Romantic Poets, Scottish Poets
Emotional landscape: Longing, Sorrow, Despair
