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  Georgian Poetry information - Search.com
Georgian Poetry was the title of a series of anthologies showcasing the work of a school of English poetry that established itself during the early years of the reign of King George V of the United Kingdom.
Edward Marsh was the general editor of the series and the centre of the circle of Georgian poets, which included Rupert Brooke.
The subsequent fate of the Georgian poets (inevitably known as the Squirearchy) then became an aspect of the critical debate surrounding modernist poetry, as marked by the publication of The Waste Land at just that time.
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  John Freeman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
John Freeman (Georgian poet) was a British poet who lived from 1880 to 1929
John Freeman (politician) was a British Labour Party politician, television executive and presenter, and former High Commissioner to India and Ambassador to the US.
John Freeman (VC) was a recipient of the Victoria Cross in 1857.
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 Biographical Sketches. Untermeyer, Louis, ed. 1920. Modern British Poetry   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
John Davidson was born at Barrhead, Renfrewshire, in 1857.
Besides being a splendid mystical poet, "A. E." is a painter of note, a fiery patriot, a distinguished sociologist, a public speaker, a student of economics and one of the heads of the Irish Agricultural Association.
Edith Sitwell was born at Scarborough, in Yorkshire, and is the sister of the poets, Osbert and Sacheverell Sitwell.
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 Brief Biographies of Jackson Era Characters (C)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
When he was elected to serve under John Quincy Adams, he was disgusted at the way Adams was put into the presidency by the House of Representatives against the evident will of the electorate.
A Georgian and strong advocate of sucession, who became a major general in the Confederate army.Served in the House of Representatives from 1843-51, was Speaker of the House the last two of those years.
Collins, John A. Was with Charles Lenox Remond on an anti-slavery tour of Ireland, and also with him when the Irish anti-slavery petition with 60,000 names was presented at Faneuil Hall, Boston.
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 John Freeman (Georgian poet) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
John Freeman ( 1880 – 1929) was an English poet and essayist, who gave up a successful career in insurance to write full time.
He was born in London, and started as an office boy aged 13.
He was a close friend of Walter de la Mare from 1907, who lobbied hard with Edward Marsh to get Freeman into the Georgian Poetry series; with eventual success.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Freeman_(Georgian_poet)   (143 words)

  
 Two Kings of Redonda: M P Shiel and John Gawsworth
John was correcting galley proofs "with a heavy self-commiserating air" and drinking fl coffee.
The three of them returned to John's gas-lit attic where the Durrells were shown an already im-pressive collection of those first editions, manuscripts, poets' letters, and literary curiosities by whose sale, with diminishing replacements, he supported himself in alcohol and life's lesser expenses year after year in the postwar decades.
His Georgian inclinations were as good an excuse as any for being written off, and his increasing alcoholic frenzies, slovenly dress and habits, and physical deterioration invited contempt and neglect.
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 William Dailey Rare Books, Ltd. - Poetry in English of the 20th Century
Dunbar (1872-1906), "a gifted poet and precurser to the Harlem Renaissance" (OCAAL) was admired by his contemporaries, including Langston Hughes, was soon forgotten after his death but has been rediscovered and appreciated by a new generation.
Poet, critic and novelist, Arthur Davison Ficke (1883-1945) divided his time between the study of Japanese art and his own belles lettres.
Poet and translator Peter Levitt is the recipient of the 1989-90 Lannan Foundation Literary Award and Fellowship.
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 Gale - Free Resources - Poet's Corner - Timeline - 1900   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
German poet, novelist, and dramatist Paul von Heyse is awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.
The Georgian Poets, group of lyric poets, is active during the reign of George V of England.
Irish poet William Butler Yeats is awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.
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 John Freeman
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John Frederick Freeman, (January 29 1880 - September 23 1929), was an English poet and essayist, who gave up a successful career in insurance to write full time.
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 Oxford Book of Modern Verse 1892-1935 - free-definition   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
A long and interesting introductory essay starts from the proposition that the poets included should be all the 'good' ones (implicitly the field is Anglo-Irish poetry, though notably a few Indian poets are there) active since Tennyson 's death.
The modernist tendency does not predominate, though it is not ignored; Georgian poetry is covered quite thoroughly, while a Dublin wit like Gogarty is given much space.
Eliot - Edwin John Ellis - William Empson - Michael Field - James Elroy Flecker - John Freeman - Manmohan Ghose - Wilfrid Gibson - Oliver St.John Gogarty - Augusta Gregory - Julian Grenfell - Thomas Hardy - William Ernest Henley - Frederick Robert Higgins - Ralph Hodgson - Gerard Manley Hopkins - A.
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 John Artworks and Fine Art at arthistorynet.com
John de Wit is a veteran glass artist based in the Seattle area and has distinguished himself as bot...
John Keats (1795-1821) John Keats (1795-1821) An exhibition in association with The Wordsworth Trus...
John Dahlsen is a contemporary environmental artist and abstract painter.
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 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/John Freeman
John Freeman (author), 'Tracing the Footprints' (2003), 'New Performance/New Writing' (2003) founder and editor of 'Performance Practice'.
John Freeman (politician) (born 1915), British Labour Party politician, television executive and presenter, former High Commissioner to India, Ambassador to the US John Freeman (VC) (1832–1913), Victoria Cross recipient, 1857
John Freeman (baseball) (1901-1958), a baseball player in the early 20th century
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 Roman Emperors DIR Basil II
Particularly important for the civil wars of Basil's reign is the Georgian Life of John and Euthymius which outlines the Georgian contribution to the emperor's victory over Sclerus in 979.
As John Forsyth's work has shown, this confusion can be reconciled by using evidence from Leo the Deacon, the Life of John and Euthymios, and an inscription from the Georgian monastery of Zarzma.
John the Deacon, an exact contemporary, interprets the Venetian action as a unilateral decision to rid the area of Croat pirates.
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 Turtle Bunbury - Award-winning travel writer, historian and author based in Ireland
Godwin, a barrister, made the move from Herefordshire early in the reign of Charles II and was Attorney General to the Duke of Ormonde for the County Palatine of Tipperary.
John Philpott Curran, father to Robert Emmett's beloved Sarah, was Grand Prior of the Order which counted Flood, Grattan, Lord Charlemont and Bowes Daly among its impressive list of members.
John was the son of George Henry Aizlewood of Whirlow Grange, Parkhead near Sheffield.
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The ideal 'Georgian Poetry'--a book which would err neither by omission nor by inclusion, and would contain the best, and only the best poems of the best, and only the best poets of the day--could only be achieved, if at all, by dint of a Royal Commission.
Poets make faces And sudden grimaces: They twit you, and spit you On words: then admit you To heaven or hell By the tales that they tell.
Poets, painters, and puddings; these three Crown the day as it crowned should be.
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 Walter de la Mare - Iridis Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Walter de la Mare ( 1873 - 1956) was an English poet, short story writer, and novelist, probably best remembered for his works for children.
He was born in Kent, descended from a family of French Huguenots, and was educated at St Paul's Choir School.
Alongside the children's literature aspect, it also provides a selection of the leading Georgian poets (from de la Mare's perspective).
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 Poets' Corner - Condensed Author Index
Admittedly, the main index files upon which the collection are based are becoming a little on the large side.
This file, suggested by Jon, is a quick reference to all poets in the collection.
To find authors who do not have an entry in the main Author index (those for whom no link is shown) note the anthology in which their work appears, and look it up among the Special Collections maintained by Bob Blair.
www.theotherpages.org /poems/authors.html   (102 words)

  
 Harold Monro - Enpsychlopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Harold Edward Monro ( March 14, 1879 - March 16, 1932), was a British poet, the proprietor of the Poetry Bookshop in London which helped many famous poets bring their work before the public.
He was not a mainstream war poet, but did occasionally write about the subject.
Flint - John Freeman - Stella Gibbons - Wilfrid Gibson - Robert Graves - Thomas Hardy - H.
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poet; wrote epic poems "Fingal" 1762, "Temora" 1763 both unsuccessfully attributed to legendary poet Ossian, epic poem "The Highlander" 1758 _1736-1796 Macpherson, John Brit.
Symbolist poet; wrote poem "L'Apres-midi d'une faune" 1876 (also "The Afternoon of a Faun"), collection "Vers et Prose" 1893; translator of Edgar Allan Poe _1842-1898 Mallon, Mary (Typhoid Mary) US cook & disease carrier _1870-1938 Mallory, George [Herbert] Leigh Brit.
Menard, John Willis US polit.; 1st fl elected to Congress 1868 but did not serve _1838-1893 Menchik, Vera Francevna Rus.
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 Articles - Trinity College, Cambridge   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
John's who are their main rival in sports and academia.
Abraham Cowley 1618-1667 Poet, dramatist - The Mistress
John Charles Spencer, 3rd Earl Spencer 1782-1845 Known as Lord Althorp; Chancellor of the Exchequer
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 Walter de la Mare | Vampires.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Walter de la Mare (1873-1956) was an English poet, short story writer, and novelist, probably best remembered (though not necessarily justly so) for his works for children.
It was at the border between the two that Shakespeare, Dante, and the rest of the great poets lay.
De la Mare claimed that all children fall into the category of having a childlike imagination at first, which is usually replaced at some point in their lives.
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 John Gawsworth   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
John Gawsworth ( June 29 1912 - September 23 1970), a pseudonym of Terence Ian Fytton Armstrong, was a British writer, poet and compiler of anthologies, both of poetry and of short stories.
At this time he was very much involved in compiling story collections, generally of the fiction of the supernatural.
Davies - Lord Alfred Douglas - Ernest Dowson - John Drinkwater - John Freeman - John Gawsworth - Wilfred Gibson - John Gray - Lionel Johnson - Hugh MacDiarmid - Richard Middleton - Harold Monro - Herbert Palmer - Edith Sitwell - L.
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 the theater - 2003
Freeman's impassioned performance as the angry young woman ignites the play with an energy that was sorely missing from the play's first half.
John Henry Redwood’s drama “No Niggers, No Jews, No Dogs” now at the Detroit Repertory Theatre, takes its volatile title from signs that were posted outside certain towns in the old South.
John Kander and Fred Ebb’s delicious score gives nearly every singer in the show a chance to bring the house down and under director Rick Bodick, nearly all of Stagecrafters' leads do just that.
www.thedetroiter.com /b2evoTheater/blogs/index.php?m=2003   (13501 words)

  
 WdlM Society - books, articles & theses
John Bayley, 'No Full Stop: the Movement of William Golding's Fiction,' in publication for British Council exhibition, William Golding 1911-1993, British Council, 1994
Ian Rogerson, Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester, vol.
John LeVay, 'The DelaMarean Otherworld,' University of York, Toronto, 1984
www.bluetree.co.uk /wdlmsociety/research/books.htm   (1101 words)

  
 Juxta/Electronic #8
And Max Harris was a fearsome Moderrrrrrrrrrrrrrrn poet himself.
They were the rostered CO and NCO on duty at their outfit, the Directorate of Research and Civil Affairs.
In cooking up their poet to a satirical recipe, McCauley and Stewart threw into the brew a seasoning of anarchic intelligence and comic self-laceration.
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It is clear that he did not set himself to master the poet's art, yet through the mask of conventional verse which often falls into doggerel, the voice of a true poet is heard.
The prose supplement to battle pieces has been included because it does so much to explain the feeling of his war verse and further because it is such a remarkably wise and clear commentary upon those confused and troublous days of post-war reconstruction.
The mourners who this summer bear flowers to the mounds of the Virginian and Georgian dead are, in their domestic bereavement and proud affection, as sacred in the eye of Heaven as are those who go with similar offerings of tender grief and love into the cemeteries of our Northern martyrs.
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 Prints   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
JOHN CALVIN [1509-1564] Protestant Reformer Engraved Portrait of Calvin.
JOHN KNOX [1505-1572] Scottish Protestant Reformer Engraved Portrait of Knox.
JOHN LESLIE, Duke of Rothes [1630-1681] Royalist Soldier and Lord Chancellor of Scotland.
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 booksoutofprint
Sandburg is probably best known for his poem about fog (which "comes on little cat feet"), or for his characterisations of Chicago ("Hog butcher for the world"), but it's for his biography of Abraham Lincoln that he won the 1939 Pulitzer Prize.
Jeffers was born in Pittsburgh, studied forestry, medicine, and other subjects in California, Washington, and Zurich colleges, and settled in 1919 in California, where he and his family built a house in Carmel.
Dickens was the second of eight children in a family always in debt, so he knew firsthand the misery of child labor (factory work), hunger, and debtors' prison.
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 Plurabelle Books: Modernism
John Middleton Murry, 16 issues, as issued, between 1926 and 1934, an interesting sample from one of the major literary periodicals of the 1930ies £ 25.-
Aldington, Richard: (transl) Medallions from Anyte of Tegea, Meleager of Gadara, The Anacreontea, Latin Poets of the Renaissance.
142p hb, spine sunned, very productive poet, hailed by Browning as a major star, neglected after discovery that aunt and niece were co-authoring his output.
www.plurabel.u-net.com /MODERN.HTM   (10337 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: John Freeman   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Updated 154 days 4 hours 18 minutes ago.
John Freeman (politician) was a British Labour Party politician
This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title.
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 Sean Cole's Trivia Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
She is the mother of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797 - 1851) who married the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley and is best known as the author of Frankenstein: A Modern Prometheus.
John Adams Even though NAQT rules generally call for players to be prompted on partial names, an answer of "John Adams" will not be prompted if the correct answer is "John Quincy Adams." An answer of "Adams" will be prompted in either case.
(1809 - 1894) was a physician, poet, and humorist who wrote "Old Ironsides" and The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table The son, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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