(Let's call it) Poetry Month (cause why not?)
— Poetry Month — Ancient Greek Song of Exile, Felicia Hemans First published 1823, The New Monthly Magazine Later published 1825, The Forest Sanctuary, and Other Poems Felicia Dorothea Hemans (née Browne) was a Late Romantic poet very popular in her time both in Britain and in the United States, sales coming in second to Lord Byron, and is still admired today. She was born in Liverpool on the 25th of September in 1793. She moved with her family to a cottage on the grounds of Gwrych Castle in Wales in 1800, where she lived until the age of sixteen when they moved to Bronwylfa, St. Asaph, in Flintshire. Her first volume of poetry, Poems , was published in 1808, when she was just fourteen years old; it was dedicated to the Prince of Wales. The work was notice...