Curated category
Romantic poets
- Edgar Allan PoeOn the 27th of May 1827, a young man named Edgar A. Perry enlisted in the United States Army under an assumed name. He was actually eighteen years old and…
- Walter ScottOn the 15th of August 1771, a boy named Walter Scott was born in a third-floor apartment on College Wynd in Edinburgh. His life changed dramatically in 1773…
- John KeatsJohn Keats was born in Moorgate, London, on the 31st of October 1795, into a world that would eventually crown him a master of English verse, yet his origins…
- Percy Bysshe ShelleyOn a summer day in 1804, Percy Bysshe Shelley stood before the wooden paling fence at Eton College. He held a bag of gunpowder he had stolen from the school…
- Mary ShelleyMary Wollstonecraft Godwin was born in Somers Town, London on the 30th of August 1797. Her mother died just eleven days after giving birth to her from…
- Lord ByronGeorge Gordon Byron entered the world on the 22nd of January 1788 on Holles Street in London. His birthplace now sits beneath a branch of the department…
- Johann Wolfgang von GoetheJohann Wolfgang von Goethe was born on the 28th of August 1749 in a large house on Großer Hirschgraben in Frankfurt. His father, Johann Caspar Goethe, had…
- William WordsworthWilliam Wordsworth entered the world on the 7th of April 1770 in Cockermouth, Cumberland. He was the second of five children born to John Wordsworth and Ann…
- Victor HugoVictor-Marie Hugo was born on the 26th of February 1802 in Besançon, a city in eastern France. His father Joseph Léopold Sigisbert Hugo served as a general…
- Samuel Taylor ColeridgeSamuel Taylor Coleridge was born on the 21st of October 1772 in Ottery St Mary, a small town in Devon. His father served as the vicar of the local church and…
- Romantic poetryThe year 1800 marked a turning point when William Wordsworth published the second edition of Lyrical Ballads with a new Preface.
- Alexander PushkinAlexander Sergeyevich Pushkin was born into the Russian nobility in Moscow. His father, Sergey Lvovich Pushkin, belonged to an old noble family that traced…
- Mikhail LermontovMikhail Yuryevich Lermontov entered the world on the 15th of October 1814 in Moscow. His paternal family traced its roots to a Scottish officer named Yuri…
- Vasily ZhukovskyVasily Zhukovsky was born on the 24th of February 1783 in the village of Mishenskoe within the Tula Governorate. His mother Salkha had been captured during…
- Robert SoutheyRobert Southey was born on the 12th of August 1774 in Wine Street, Bristol. He grew up in a house that still stands today as a quiet reminder of his origins.
- Fyodor TyutchevFyodor Ivanovich Tyutchev entered the world in 1803 at the Ovstug family estate near Bryansk. His father Ivan Nikolaevich Tyutchev served as a court…