Unreferenced date September 2007 John Lofland 1798 1849 , widely known as the Milford Bard of Milford, Delaware , was a prolific and widely read fact date April 2012 writer of prose, verse, and speeches. He grew up and spent much of his life in The Towers on North West Front Street in Milford. Later in his life he moved to Baltimore, Maryland where he associated with Edgar Allan Poe . Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Lofland, John ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH 1798 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH 1849 PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Lofland, John Category 1798 births Category 1849 deaths Category People from Milford, Delaware Category Writers from Delaware Category American poets US poet stub ... more details
John Jack Clarke 1933 1992 was an American poet. A noted poet, jazz musician and scholar of William Blake and Charles Olson , John Jack Clarke was the author of several books of poetry, essays and lectures, among them From Feathers To Iron 1987 and In The Analogy, published posthumously in 1997. The latter title, a collection of more than 200 sonnets, stands as the culmination of Clarke s lifework in poetry. As director of the Institute of Further Studies founded in 1965 with George F. Butterick, Fred Wah, and Albert Glover , he oversaw the series A Curriculum of the Soul . He taught for 29 years at the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York State University of New York at Buffalo . From 1989 to 1991 he edited intent letter of talk, thinking, and document . In 1989 he was awarded the Ohioanna Poetry Award from the Ohio Library Association Clarke was a native of Ohio and in 1991, the prestigious Artists Fellowship for Poetry presented by the New York Foundation for the Arts. External links http www.jackmagazine.com issue5 politicssellis.html Steve Ellis makes valuable comments on Clarke and his work in Jack Magazine Vol, 2 No. 1. Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Clarke, John ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH 1933 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH 1992 PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Clarke, John Category American poets Category 1933 births Category 1992 deaths US poet 1930s stub ... more details
About the American poet the American painter John Trumbull the American politician John H. Trumbull Image John Trumbull painter John Trumbull poet 1793.jpg thumb John Trumbull by his John Trumbull cousin , the painter of the same name, 1793 John Trumbull April 24, 1750 May 11, 1831 was an American poet. Biography Trumbull was born in what is now Watertown, Connecticut , where his father was a Congregational preacher. At the age of seven he passed his entrance examinations at Yale University Yale , but did not enter until 1763 he graduated in 1767, studied law there, and in 1771 1773 was a tutor. In 1773 he was admitted to Bar association the bar , in 1773 1774 practiced law in Boston , working in the law office of John Adams , and after 1774 practiced in New Haven, Connecticut . He was state attorney in 1789, a member of the Connecticut Assembly in 1792 and 1800, and a judge of the Superior Court in 1801 1819. The last six years of his life were spent in Detroit, Michigan , where he died. sfn Chisholm 1911 While studying at Yale he had contributed in 1769 1770 ten essays, called The Meddler ... him. John Trumbull Primary School in Watertown, CT M Fingal Rd. in Watertown, CT was named after his poem. References reflist Attribution 1911 wstitle Trumbull, Johnpoet Endnotes See the memoir ... books?id Gbk8AAAAYAAJ&pg PA5&dq john trumbull poet&hl en&sa X&ei hEI0T5ihB6Ly0gHz rnjAg&ved ... http books.google.com books?id StIQAAAAYAAJ&pg PA35&dq john trumbull poet&hl en&sa X&ei hEI0T5ihB6Ly0gHz rnjAg&ved 0CE8Q6AEwAw v onepage&q john 20trumbull 20poet&f false chapter John Trumbull LL.D. title ... see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Trumbull, John ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH April 24, 1750 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH May 11, 1831 PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Trumbull, John Category 1750 births Category 1831 deaths Category Hartford Wits Category American poets de John Trumbull Dichter it John Trumbull poeta nl John Trumbull dichter ... more details
John Kay was a fifteenth century England English poet who described himself as the versificator regis which would develop into the position of Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom to Edward IV of England . ref Cite encyclopedia title Laureate encyclopedia Encyclop dia Britannica Eleventh Edition volume 16 pages 282 publisher The Encyclop dia Britannica Co. year 1911 id url http books.google.com books?id 2L1kDVXqh wC&pg PA282 accessdate 2010 02 04 first Hugh last Chisholm ref ref cite book last Howland first Frances Louise Morse title The laureates of England Ben Jonson to Alfred Tennyson publisher Frederick A. Stokes year 1895 url http books.google.com books?id cF0RAAAAYAAJ&pg PR19 accessdate 4 February 2010 ref If it ever existed, none of his poetic work remains. ref cite news url http news.google.com newspapers?id khEbAAAAIBAJ&sjid nUgEAAAAIBAJ&pg 5958,2933071&dq john kay versificator&hl en title English Poets Laureate First Versifier to Hold the Office was John Kay date 17 February 1902 publisher The Pittsburgh Press pages 7 accessdate 4 February 2010 ref References reflist Persondata NAME Kay, John ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH Use dmy dates date December 2011 DEFAULTSORT Kay, John Category British Poets Laureate Category 15th century English people Category Year of birth unknown Category Year of death unknown poet stub ... more details
John Barr of Craigilee 1809 1889 was a Scottish people Scottish New Zealand poet . Biography Born in Paisley, Scotland in 1809, Barr moved to Otago in 1852, and farmed a property at Halfway Bush. ref Writers in Residence , by Jenny Robin Jones, Auckland University Press, 2004 ref In 1857 he moved with his wife Mary and their four children to Balclutha, New Zealand Balclutha , and established a farm which he called Craigilee. He was the founder of the New Zealand Robert Burns Society. ref Anthology of New Zealand Poetry in English, Oxford University Press, 1997. ref In his time, he was considered the Laureate of Otago province , of which he wrote, in Scots language Lowland Scots There s nae place like Otago yet, There s nae wee beggar weans, Or auld men shivering at our doors To beg for scraps or banez Allen Curnow described his writing as this Scots colonial porridge parritch ... watery gruel at the best. References Reflist Allen Curnow Curnow, Allen ed The Penguin Book of New Zealand Verse Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Barr, John ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH 1809 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH 1889 PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Barr, John Category New Zealand people of Scottish descent Category New Zealand poets Category 1809 births Category 1889 deaths Category Lallans poets NZ writer stub poet stub ... more details
John Ennis born 1944 is an Irish poetry poet born in Westmeath in 1944. Life He is head of School of Humanities at Waterford Institute of Technology , and lives in Waterford . He won the Listowel Open Poetry Competition eleven times, he won the Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Award in 1975, and the Irish American Cultural Institute Award in 1996. Poetry books Night on Hibernia Oldcastle, County Meath Oldcastle , Co County Meath Meath The Gallery Press, 1976 Dolmen Hill The Gallery Press, 1977 A Drink of Spring The Gallery Press, 1979 The Burren Days The Gallery Press, 1985 Arboretum Dublin, The Dedalus Press, 1990 In a Greener Shade The Dedalus Press, 1991 Down in the Deeper Helicon Dedalus Press, 1994 Telling the Bees Dedalus Press, 1995 Selected Poems Dedalus Press, 1996 Tr ithn n Dedalus Press, 2000 Near St Mullins Dedalus, 2002 . Notes and references references External links http www.irishwriters online.com johnennis.html Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Ennis,John ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION Poet DATE OF BIRTH 1944 PLACE OF BIRTH Westmeath , Ireland DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Ennis,John Category 1944 births Category Irish poets Category Living people Category People from County Westmeath Ireland writer stub ... more details
Other persons John Harris Deleted image removed Image johnharris.jpg thumb 170px John Harris in an undated photo. John Harris 1820 1884 was a Cornwall Cornish poet. Harris was born and raised in a two bedroom cottage on the slopes of Bolenowe Carn, a small village near Camborne , Cornwall , in the United Kingdom . At age twelve, he was sent to work at Dolcoath mine where he combined a life of painful labour with the production of poetry celebrating his native landscape around Carn Brea and the scenic splendours of Land s End and the Lizard . He could not afford pen and paper, so instead he improvised and used blackberry juice for ink and grocery bags for paper. In the 1840s, he married Jane Rule, with whom he had four children two sons and two daughters. When his second born daughter, Lucretia, died during Christmas 1855, he produced a moving eulogy . After this a friend found him a more congenial occupation as a Bible reader or travelling comforter at Falmouth, Cornwall Falmouth , where he spent the second half of his life. During this period he produced his most important work, the Topographical ... been some revival of interest in his work, and recently, the book The Cornish Poet was brought out by the John Harris Society, containing his collected works. ref Everett, David ed. 2002 The Cornish Poet poems of John Harris 1820 1884 Loughborough Zipped Books ref Sources reflist Newman, Paul 1994 The Meads of Love the Life & Poetry of John Harris 1820 1884 . Redruth Dyllansow Truran See also ... John Harris A Story of Carn Brea http www.brycchancarey.com places cornwall harris2.htm John ... FUCAAAAQAAJ The Land s End, Kynance Cove, and other poems, By John Harris ODNB article by Megan A. Stephan, Harris, John 1820 1884 , Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 ... Persondata . NAME Harris, John ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH 1820 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH 1884 PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Harris, John Category Cornish poets Category People ... more details
Other persons John Smith John Smith born August 10, 1927 is a Canadian poet . ref http www.poets.ca linktext direct smithjoh.htm Who s Bot generated title ref Early years Born in Toronto , Ontario , Smith earned a degree in mathematics and physics from the University of Toronto . He then studied philosophy in London , and later returned to Toronto to earn an Master of Arts postgraduate MA in English studies English . Career After earning his Master s degree in English studies English , Smith remained in Toronto and taught high school English for seven years. Later, he moved to Prince Edward Island to teach at Prince of Wales College . He served a term as Dean of Arts at the University of Prince Edward Island , taught there for many years, and is currently Professor Emeritus. As the author of several volumes of verse, Smith s work has appeared in a number of anthologies , including The New Poets of Prince Edward Island 1991 , Landmarks 2001 , and Coastlines Poetry of Atlantic Canada 2002 . An interview with Smith is included in Meetings with Maritime Poets Interviews 2006 by Anne Compton . In 2002, Smith was the first to be appointed poet laureate of Prince Edward Island, and held the position until 2004. ref http www.gov.pe.ca news getrelease.php3?number 2870 Prince Edward Island News Release Province Appoints First Poet Laureate Bot generated title ref ref http www.cbc.ca arts story 2002 12 06 peipoet061202.html CBC.ca Arts P.E.I. appoints poet laureate Bot generated title ref Smith is currently living in Charlottetown , Prince Edward Island . Bibliography Winter in Paradise ... Reflist External links http www.acornpresscanada.com johnsmith.html John Smith biography Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Smith, John ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH August 10, 1927 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Smith, John Category 1927 ... Feedback 5 canada poet stub ... more details
Other people2 John Payne disambiguation John Payne Use dmy dates date July 2011 Infobox writer for more information see Template Infobox writer doc name John Payne image John payne poet 1904.jpg caption A photograph of John Payne, 1904 birth date 23 August 1842 birth place Bloomsbury , London , Kingdom of England England death date 11 February 1916 aged 73 death place South Kensington , London , Kingdom of England England occupation Poet , translator , solicitor John Payne 23 August 1842 &ndash 11 February 1916 ref name wright Citation last Wright first Thomas publication date 1919 title The Life of John Payne publisher T. Fisher Unwin url http www.archive.org details lifeofjohnpayne00wrig accessdate 2011 07 30 ref was an England English poet and Translation translator , from Devon . Initially he pursued a Lawyer legal career , and associated with Dante Gabriel Rossetti . Later he became involved with Limited edition books limited edition publishing, and the Fran ois Villon Villon Society. He is now best known for his translations of Giovanni Boccaccio Boccaccio s The Decameron Decameron ... wright . Works wikisource author John Payne The Masque of Shadows and other poems 1870 Intaglios ... from the Poetry of John Payne 1906 selected by Tracy and Lucy Robinson Flowers of France Romantic ... Flowers of France The Classic Period 1914 The Way of the Winepress 1920 The Autobiography of John Payne of Villon Society Fame, Poet and Scholar 1926 Notes reflist External links gutenberg author id John Payne name John Payne http www.archive.org search.php?query Arabian 20nights 20AND 20creator 3A 22Payne 2C 20John 2C 201842 1916 22 Arabian nights Volume 1 13 , translated by John Payne can be found ... Payne, John ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH 1842 08 23 PLACE OF BIRTH Bloomsbury ... DEFAULTSORT Payne, John Category 1842 births Category 1916 deaths Category People from Devon ... England poet stub ... more details
Other people2 John Hughes disambiguation John Hughes 1677 1720 was an English poet also noted for his editing of and commentary on the works of Edmund Spenser . Writing at the very end of 17th Century and at the beginning of the 18th, he also translated French drama and poetry, including Moli re . Hughes was a favorite of the nobility and aristocracy, which probably accounted for his popularity. Subscribers to his volumes included the Dukes of Buckingham, Bedford, Bridgewater, and Buccleugh, as well as Levett Blackborne, grandson of Sir Richard Levett , Lord Mayor of London . ref http books.google.com books?id FycJAAAAQAAJ&pg PA17&lpg PA17&dq 22levett blackbourne 22&source bl&ots yxQIXuXMol&sig 9DAb6O5uWMB3BuJIArnSbUsAw80&hl en&sa X&oi book result&resnum 7&ct result Poems on Several Occasions, With Some Select Essays in Prose, In Two Volumes, John Hughes, Lucan, Moli re, Euripides, Jacob Tonson, John Watts, Published by J. Tonson and J. Watts, London, 1735 ref Samuel Johnson included Hughes in his Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets in 1781 but Jonathan Swift Swift and Alexander Pope Pope thought both his verse and prose mediocre. Notable works An Essay on Allegorical Poetry. With Remarks on the Writings of Mr. Edmund Spenser. 1715 Remarks on the Fairy Queen. 1715 References Reflist External links DNB Cite wstitle Hughes, John 1677 1720 s Prefaces, Biological and Critical, to the Works of the English Poets Volume the Fourth Hughes http 198.82.142.160 spenser BiographyRecord.php?action GET&bioid 33663 Dr Johnson s biography of Hughes Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Hughes, John ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH 1677 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH 1720 PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Hughes, John Category 1677 births Category 1720 deaths Category English poets UK poet stub ... more details
Other persons John Thompson File Johnthompson1971.jpg thumb 200px John Thompson 1938 1976 John Thompson 17 Mar 1938 26 Apr 1976 was an English born Canadian poet. John Thompson was born in Timperley in 1938. Following the death of his father and abandonment by his mother, ref name youngpoets Heather Pyrcz. I m a Stranger Here Myself A Digital History of Canadian Poetry http www.youngpoets.ca im a stranger here myself Jay MacPherson, Anne Szumigalski, John Thompson, Michael Ondaatje , youngpoets.ca, 2003 ref he was educated at various boarding schools and the Manchester Grammar School . He received his B.A. in honours psychology from the University of Sheffield in 1958. Following two years service in the British Army intelligence corps, he studied comparative literature at Michigan State University and received his Ph.D. He studied under A. J. M. Smith ref name youngpoets and his thesis entailed the translation of poems by the French poet Ren Char . In 1966 he moved to Canada and taught ... a close friendship with then poet in residence at University of New Brunswick , Warren Kinthompson .... On April 24, he gave the manuscript to his friend and fellow poet, Douglas Lochhead . After returning ... Poems , by John Thompson 1991 . ref The autopsy did not provide conclusive evidence that Thompson killed himself. ref Peter Sanger, introduction to John Thompson Collected Poems and Translations , 1995 ... poets, John Thompson Collected Poems and Translations, and a biographical essay by the editor, Peter ... , Dan Reve wrote, The ghazal is a rarefied, peculiar and therefore powerful form... John Thompson ... there are No Secrets 1973 Stilt Jack 1978 John Thompson Collected Poems and Translations ... of Ghazal XXI . http www.bookrags.com biography john thompson dlb John Thompson entry in Dictionary of Literary Biography Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Thompson, John ALTERNATIVE ... Thompson, John Category Canadian poets Category 1938 births Category 1976 deaths Category Alumni ... more details
John Walters 11 June 1760 &ndash 28 June 1789 was a Welsh Anglican priest and poet. Life Walters was the eldest son of John Walters Welsh cleric John Walters , a clergyman and lexicographer , and he was born on 11 June 1760 in Llandough , Glamorgan , south Wales. He was educated at Cowbridge Grammar School and Jesus College, Oxford , matriculation matriculating in 1777 obtaining his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1781. During his time in Oxford, he was sub librarian at the Bodleian Library . He became headmaster of Cowbridge Grammar School in 1783 and headmaster of Ruthin School in the following year, when he also obtained his MA Oxon Master of Arts degree. He was later rector of Efenechtyd , Denbighshire . He died on 28 June 1789 in Ruthin , survived by his wife and two daughters. ref name Ox Works Walters was a noted poet, publishing Poems with Notes in 1780 whilst still a university student. Translated Specimens of Welsh Poetry followed in 1782. Other works included an edition and translation of Llywarch Hen s poems published in The History of Wales by Warrington in 1788 and sermons. ref name Ox cite web url http www.oxforddnb.com view article 28644 title Walters, John bap. 1721, d. 1797 last Crowe first Richard work Oxford Dictionary of National Biography publisher Oxford University Press month May year 2005 accessdate 12 February 2009 ref A new edition of Toxophilus printed by R.Marsh of Wrexham in 1788. It was edited with an introduction by the Rev. John Walters, M.A., Master of Ruthin Grammar School. This date coincides with the formation of the Royal British Bowmen, in Wrexham, in 1787 References Reflist 2. Bernard Dennis www.bernarddennis.co.uk Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Walters, John ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION Welsh poet DATE OF BIRTH 11 June 1760 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH 28 June 1789 PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Walters, John ... priests Category Welsh educators Category Welsh poets Category Translators from Welsh UK poet ... more details
awards signature signature alt website portaldisp John Barton born 1957 is a Canadian poet . Life John Barton was born in Edmonton, Alberta, in 1957 but was raised in Calgary . ref http www.poets.ca ... 7vgjVoH TbAC&pg PT1&dq John Barton poet west&lr v onepage&q John 20Barton 20poet 20west&f false publisher ... gK4sNrlCdekC&dq John Barton poet &printsec frontcover&source bl&ots E4S Hl6oIA&sig rcIBymeB0Z8givEou15Vad8nZiE&hl en&ei L 2fSqeuM PrnQeinZ3uDQ&sa X&oi book result&ct result&resnum 9 v onepage&q John 20Barton 20 poet &f false title We all begin in a little magazine Arc and the promise of Canada s poets, 1978 1998 editor John Barton publisher McGill Queen s Press MQUP year 1998 isbn 9780886293253 cite book title Seminal The Anthology of Canada s Gay Male Poets editor John Barton, Billeh Nickerso ... place occupation Poet language English nationality Canadian ethnicity citizenship education alma ... courses in the Facult Saint Jean at the University of Alberta. He became a poet upon realization ... Centre in 1994. ref http gvpl.ca readers cafe capital verse john barton ref Barton studied ... in Residence at the Saskatoon Public Library. ref http literaryphotographer.com 2008 10 john barton ... gvpl.ca readers cafe capital verse john barton ref He has lived in Victoria, British Columbia since ... introduction. John Barton s preface is a mini thesis of Canadian poetic history blended ... gay male poets edited by john barton and b ref blockquote References reflist External links http ... 2008 10 john barton interview John Barton Interview , Literary Photographer , October 24, 2008 Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Barton, John ALTERNATIVE NAMES ... DEFAULTSORT Barton, John Category Living people Category Canadian poets Category People from Calgary ... more details
Orphan date December 2011 John O Neill 8 January 1777 &ndash 1854 was an Irish writer, poet and playwright. He was born into a poor family in Waterford . At the age of nine he was apprenticed to a relative, who was a shoe maker. In 1798 he was living in Carrick on Suir , where he married. He wrote a number of popular songs around this time, the best known being a satire, The Clothier s Looking Glass . He next went to London, where he formed a large circle of acquaintances, among them George Cruikshank , who illustrated some of his poems The Drunkard , 1840, The Blessings of Temperance , 1851, The Triumph of Temperance , 1852 . He wrote Alva, a drama , in 1821 and he enjoyed some popularity as a temperance poet. His business ventures were not successful and he had a large family to support. At the end of his life, he was also working as a shoe maker in Drury Lane. His last book, Legends of Carrick edited by Mrs. S. C. Hall , was published in 1854. ref O Donoghue Poets of Ireland. Hodges Figgis, Dublin, 1912, p. 366. ref References references Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME O Neill, John ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION Writer, poet and playwright DATE OF BIRTH 8 January 1777 PLACE OF BIRTH Waterford, Ireland DATE OF DEATH 1854 PLACE OF DEATH London, England DEFAULTSORT Oneill, John Category 1777 births Category 1854 deaths Category Irish poets Category People from County Waterford Category Irish writers Category Irish dramatists and playwrights ... more details
been participating in the Merriman Summer School. He was a short story writer, a poet and a broadcaster ... poet Michael Hartnett and Seamus Heaney . This series of Poetry Ireland lasted until 1968 69 ... by W.B. Yeats. The leading role was given to John Jordan. During the preparations for the production Gray started a File John Jordan 647.jpg portrait of Jordan , which he never finished. This work ... Clear , Lilliput Press Dublin, 2006 Further reading Remembering How We Stood, John Ryan Dublin artist John Ryan Gill and Macmillan, Dublin, 1975 . Envoy, A Review of Literature and Art Dead as Doornails ... Gandon Editions, Kinsale, 1993 In Memorium, John Jordan http www.jstor.org pss 25484255 Eirdata http www.pgil eirdata.org html pgil datasets authors j Jordan,John life.htm Poets in Profile, Hugh McFadden ... Jordan, John ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH 8 April 1930 PLACE OF BIRTH Dublin DATE OF DEATH 6 June 1988 PLACE OF DEATH Cardiff , Wales DEFAULTSORT Jordan, John Category 1930 births ... more details
BLP sources date March 2009 John Wilkinson born 1953 is a contemporary England English poet . From 1972 to 1975, he studied English at Jesus College, Cambridge , United Kingdom, where he founded, with Charlie Bulbeck and Charles Lambert poet Charles Lambert , the Blue Room, a society devoted to the propagation of poetry and the other fine arts. His first publication, Of Western Limit a collaboration with Charles Lambert , appeared in 1974, the year in which Wilkinson won the Chancellor s Medal for Poetry. He has published seven major collections of verse as well as critical articles on British and American poetry, some of which were collected in The Lyric Touch 2007 . His most recent collections are Down to Earth 2008 , Lake Shore Drive 2006 , Contrivances 2003 and Effigies against the Light 2001 a chapbook titled Iphigenia appeared in 2004, and his 1986 collection, Proud Flesh , was re issued in 2005 with an introduction by Drew Milne . In 1992, his work Hid Lip appeared alongside works by Stephen Rodefer and Rod Mengham in a volume called Writing Out of Character , published by Street Editions. John Wilkinson has held a Frank Knox Fellowship at Harvard University , and was a Fulbright Distinguished Scholar in 2003 04 at the Nathan S. Kline Institute. From 2007 08 he was Carl F. Pforzheimer Fellow at the National Humanities Center in North Carolina. From 2005 2010 he was Writer in Residence and thereafter Research Professor in the Department of English at the University of Notre ... web url http english.uchicago.edu faculty wilkinson title John Wilkinson publisher University of Chicago ... Reflist Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Wilkinson, John ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION English poet DATE OF BIRTH 1953 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Wilkinson, John Category English poets Category 1953 births Category Living people Category Alumni ... Fulbright Scholars England poet stub ... more details
John Abbot 1587 1588 c. 1650 was an England English Roman Catholic Church Roman Catholic clergyman and poet. His birthplace is uncertain, but may have been London or Leicester . Abbott is believed to be the nephew both of George Abbot bishop George Abbot , the Archbishop of Canterbury and Robert Abbot bishop Robert Abbot , the bishop of Salisbury . Abbot was thus from a strongly Protestant family. After being educated at Balliol College, Oxford Balliol College , University of Oxford Oxford , he travelled to the continent where he converted to Roman Catholicism. On returning to England he was in Society of Jesus Jesuit orders for a while, before working as a secular priest. In 1635 he was imprisoned in the Gatehouse at the Palace of Westminster . He was released within a year, but in 1637 he was again arrested, and seems to have spent the rest of his life in prison. He was, along with other Catholic priests, condemned to death in 1641, but the conviction was never executed, and he appears to have died in prison in 1650. His best known work is his poem Devout Rhapsodies 2 vols., 1647 , about the Fallen angel war in heaven and the temptation and The Fall of Man fall of man . The work can be seen a precursor of John Milton Milton s Paradise Lost Selected works Jesus Praefigured 1623 The Sad Condition of a Distracted Kingdome 1645 Devout Rhapsodies 2 vols., 1647 References wikisource Abbot, John DNB00 Jordan, Richard D., Abbot, John , Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , Oxford, 2004 Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Abbot, John ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION Poet DATE OF BIRTH PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Abbot, John Category 1580s births Category 1650s deaths Category Alumni of Balliol College, Oxford Category Converts to Roman Catholicism from Anglicanism Category English Roman Catholics Category 17th century Roman Catholics ... of the Stuart period UK poet stub es John Abbot poeta simple John Abbot ... more details
Other people2 John Veitch disambiguation File John Veitch2.jpg thumb File John Veitch.jpg thumb John Veitch John Veitch October 24, 1829 September 3, 1894 , Scotland Scottish poet , philosopher , and historian , son of a Peninsular War veteran, was born at Peebles , and educated at university of Edinburgh Edinburgh University . ref name uni http www.universitystory.gla.ac.uk biography ?id WH2093&type P John Veitch . University of Glasgow ref He was assistant lecturer successively to Sir William Hamilton, Bart Sir William Hamilton and Alexander Campbell Fraser 1856 60 . In 1860 he was appointed to the chair of logic , metaphysics and rhetoric at university of St Andrews St Andrews , and in 1864 to the corresponding chair at Glasgow. ref name uni In philosophy an intuitionism intuitionist , he dismissed the idealism idealist arguments with some abruptness, and thereby lost much of the influence gained by the force of his personal character. He will be remembered chiefly for his work on Border literature and antiquities. See Memoir by his niece, Mary RL Bryce 1896 . ref name uni Publications translations of Ren Descartes Descartes Discours de la m thode 1850 and M ditationes 1852 an edition of Sir William Hamilton s lectures with memoir 1869, in collaboration with Henry Longueville Mansel HL Mansel Tweed, and other Poems 1875 The History and Poetry of the Scottish Border 1877 ed. 1893 Hamilton 1882 Institutes of Logic 1885 The Feeling for Nature in Scottish Poetry 1887 Knowing and Being 1889 Merlin 1889 Dualism and Monism 1895 Border Essays 1896 . References reflist External links wikisource author gutenberg author id John Veitch name John Veitch Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Veitch, John ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH October 24, 1829 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH September 3, 1894 PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Veitch, John Category 1829 births Category 1894 deaths Category Scottish philosophers Category Scottish poets Category People ... more details
Use dmy dates date April 2012 Hatnote For other people with the same name, see John Munro . Orphan date February 2009 John Munro 1889 1918 , was a Scotland Scottish soldier and poet who won the Military Cross during the World War I First World War . He fell in action with the 7th Battalion Seaforth Highlanders . Munro was born in Swordale, Isle of Lewis and, writing in his native Scottish Gaelic language Gaelic as Iain Rothach , came to be ranked by critics alongside the major war poets. A collection of his poetry was prepared and given to a local minister for safekeeping and publication, but the manuscript was scandalously lost. Derick Thomson the venerable poet and Professor of Celtic Studies at Glasgow hailed Munro s work in his Companion to Gaelic Scotland as being the first strong voice of the new Gaelic verse of the 20th century . Further reading Trevor Royle. In Flanders Field anthology of Scottish war poetry . External links http www.scottishradiance.com poet poet0101.htm Poem by Munro , in Gaelic and English. Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Munro, John ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH 1889 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH 1918 PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Munro, John Category 1889 births Category 1918 deaths Category Scottish Gaelic speaking people Category Scottish poets Category Scottish World War I poets Category Gaelic poets Category Scottish Gaelic poets Category British Army personnel of World War I Category Recipients of the Military Cross Category British military personnel killed in World War I Category Seaforth Highlanders officers ... more details
Other people2 John Adams John Adams 1704 January 1740 was an United States American poet . Biography Adams was the only son of Hon. John Adams merchant of Nova Scotia , and he graduated from Harvard University in 1721. He joined the ministry of the Congregational Church at Newport, Rhode Island , on April 11, 1728, in opposition to the wishes of Mr. Clap, who was pastor there. Clap s friends formed a new society, and Adams was dismissed in about two years.He also was in a period of time where the French and Britain were in war. Adams was distinguished for his intellect and piety. As a preacher he was much esteemed. His uncle, Matthew Adams, described him as master of nine languages, and claimed that he was conversant with the most famous Greek, Latin, Italian, French, and Spanish authors, as well as with the noblest English writers. He also speaks of his nephew s great and undissembled piety, which ran, like a vein of gold, through all his life and performances. Adams published a sermon on his ordination, 1728, and a poem on the love of money. He published two volumes of poetry A Collection of Poems by Several Hands 1744 , and Poems on Several Occasions 1745 , ref Who Was Who in America Historical Volume, 1607 1896. Chicago Marquis Who s Who, 1963. ref which contains imitations and paraphrases of several portions of scripture, translations from Horace, and the whole book of Revelation in heroic verse, together with original pieces. The versification is remarkably harmonious for the period and the country. The following is an extract from his poem on Cotton Mather ref name Allen What numerous volumes, scattered from his hand, Lightened his own, and warmed each foreign land ... . NAME Adams, John ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH 1704 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH 1740 PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Adams, JohnPoet Category 1704 births Category 1740 deaths ... Writers from Massachusetts Category Congregationalist writers pam John Adams poet ... more details
Wikify date August 2011 John Grieve 12 September 1781 Dunfermline 4 April 1836 , was a Scottish poet. Life Grieve, son of the Rev. Walter Grieve, minister of the reformed presbyterian church, was born at Dunfermline on 12 Sept. 1781. He was educated at the parish school of Ettrick, where his father had settled on retiring from the ministry. After leaving school he was first a merchant s clerk in Alloa, and then acted for some time as a bank clerk in Greenock he returned to Alloa, however, to become a partner in the firm of his former employer. In 1804, he began business in Edinburgh, in partnership with Mr. Chalmers Izzet, hat maker. Here he was successful, and found leisure for literary pursuits. He contributed to various periodicals, his most notable efforts being the songs which he wrote for Hogg s Forest Minstrel. He was on intimate terms with Hogg, who speaks of his literary advice as well as his material assistance. Hogg s Madoc of the Moor is dedicated to him, and he figures as a competing minstrel in the Queen s Wake. It was on Grieve s recommendation that the Queen s Wake was published, and in regard to the more generous support given him by Grieve and his partner, Hogg says that without this he could never have fought his way in Edinburgh quote I was fairly starved into it, and if it had not been for Messrs. Grieve and Scott would in a very short time have been starved out of it again. In 1817, Grieve retired from business through ill health. Until his death he was a well ...&dq John Grieve poet &source bl&ots xF4Y4JaLFL&sig 88j7O fErS7t9 WJMEWIdWeP3Bc&hl en&ei biNkTqutLaSBsgLFmPXHCg&sa X&oi book result&ct result&resnum 8&ved 0CFYQ6AEwBw v onepage&q John 20Grieve 20 poet ..., John Use dmy dates date August 2011 Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Grieve, John ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH 12 September 1781 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH 4 April 1836 PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Grieve, John Category 1781 births Category 1836 deaths Category ... more details
John Langhorne March 1735 &ndash 1 April 1779 was a British translator, poet and priest. He and his brother, William Langhorne, are best known for their English translation of Plutarch s Parallel Lives Lives . Biography The younger son of Joseph a clergyman and Isabel, Langhorne was born in Winton, Cumbria Winton , near Kirkby Stephen , Westmorland . According to the parish register, Joseph LANGHORN & Isabell BLAND of Winton married 5 Aug 1718 ref http freepages.misc.rootsweb.ancestry.com enzedders ksmarr11.htm ref Their church monument states 1762. To. m. the Reverend Joseph Langhorne of Winton and Isabel his wife. Her, who to teach this trembling hand to write, Toil d the long day, and watch d the tedious night, I mourn, tho number d with the heavenly host With her the means of gratitude are lost. John Langhorne. ref http freepages.misc.rootsweb.ancestry.com enzedders ksmis.htm ref He was educated first in Winton, and later in Appleby . Following his 18th birthday, he became tutor to a Ripon family, and was later an Usher at the free school in Wakefield . In Wakefield he took Holy Orders orders , being ordained Deacon . ref cite web first Arthur last Sherbo title Langhorne, John 1735 1779 work Oxford Dictionary of National Biography publisher Oxford University Press year 2004 url http www.oxforddnb.com view article 16017 doi 10.1093 ref odnb 16017 accessdate 2008 03 14 ODNBsub ... day he had some reputation as a poet . His chief works in poetry are Studley Royal Park Studley .... Mr. Farrer. The Poetical Works of John Langhorne. In Two Volumes. Rev. John Langhorne ref ... , returned to Blagdon. References wikiquote wikisource Langhorne, John DNB00 Reflist A Short Biographical ..., John ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH 1735 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH 1 April 1779 PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Langhorne, John Category British translators Category British poets ... Category Anglican priests cs John Langhorne ... more details
Use dmy dates date December 2011 Use British English date December 2011 John Hartley 1839 1915 was an England English poet who worked in the Yorkshire dialect . He wrote a great deal of prose and poetry often of a sentimental nature dealing with the poverty of the district. He was born in Halifax, West Yorkshire . Hartly wrote and edited the Original Illuminated Clock Almanack from 1866 to his death. Most of Hartley s works are written in dialect . Hartley wrote a number of books featuring the character Sammywell Grimes , who has a number of adventures and suffers unfortunate mishaps. Works Yorkshire Ditties, First Series Yorkshire Ditties, Second Series Yorkshire Tales, First Series Yorkshire Tales, Second Series Yorkshire Lyrics Pensive Poems and Startling Stories A Rolling Stone. A Tale of Wrongs and Revenge Mally An Me A selection of Humorous and Pathetic Incidents from the Life of Sammywell Grimes and His Wife Mally Yorksher Puddin A Sheaf from the Moorland A Collection of Original Poems Grimes Visit To Th Queen. A Royal Time Amang Royalties Seets I Lundun A Yorkshireman s Ten Days Trip Seets i Yorkshire and Lancashire or Grimes Comical Trip from Leeds to Liverpool by Canal Seets i Blackpool Grimes at the Seaside Seets i Paris Sammywell Grimes s trip with his old chum Billy Baccus ... to America Ten letters from Sammywell to John Jones Smith Sammywell Grimes An his Wife Mally Laikin ... author id John Hartley name John Hartley http www.hyphenologist.co.uk songs hyd1.htm Yorkshire Ditties by John Hartley Link fails 25 October 2008 permissions http oldpoetry.com oauthor show John Hartley John Hartley at Old Poetry worldcat id lccn n85 46672 Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Hartley, John ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH 1839 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH 1915 PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Hartley, John Category 1839 births Category 1915 deaths ... Category People from Halifax, West Yorkshire UK poet stub ... more details
Infobox person name John Finlay image alt caption birth date 1782 birth place death date 1810 death place nationality British other names known for occupation John Finlay 1782 1810 , Scottish poet. Biography John Finlay was born of humble parents at Glasgow in December 1782. He was educated in one of the academies at Glasgow, and at the age of fourteen entered the university, where he had as a classmate John Wilson Scottish writer John Wilson alias Christopher North , who states that he was distinguished above most of his contemporaries . sfn Henderson 1889 p 31 The prospect of obtaining a situation in one of the public offices led him to visit London in 1807, and while there he contributed to the magazines some articles on antiquarian subjects. Not finding suitable employment he returned to Glasgow in 1808. sfn Henderson 1889 p 31 He began to collect materials for a continuation of Warton s History of Poetry , but in 1810 he left Glasgow to visit Professor Wilson at Ellerlay , Westmoreland on the way he fell ill at Moffat , and died there on 8 December. sfn Henderson 1889 p 32 Works While only nineteen, and still at the university, Finlay published Wallace, or the Vale of Ellerslie, and other Poems in 1802, dedicated to Mrs. Dunlop of Dunlop , the friend of Robert Burns Burns , a second edition with some additions appearing in 1804, and a third in 1817. Professor Wilson describes it as displaying a wonderful power of versification , and possessing both the merits and defects which we look for in the early compositions of true genius . sfn Henderson 1889 p 31 In 1808 Finlay ... Cite DNB first Thomas Finlayson last Henderson wstitle Finlay, John volume 19 pages 31&ndash 32 Endnotes ... 2011 Use British English date May 2011 Persondata name Finlay, John alternative names short description Scottish poet date of birth 1782 place of birth date of death 1810 place of death DEFAULTSORT Finlay, John Category 1782 births Category 1810 deaths Category Scottish poets Category People from Glasgow ... more details
Atonal Press Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata Persondata NAME Farrell, John ALTERNATIVE NAMES J.P. Farrell SHORT DESCRIPTION American Poet & Publisher DATE OF BIRTH 22 May 1968 PLACE OF BIRTH Glen Cove , New York DEFAULTSORT Farrell, John Patrick Category 1968 births Category American ... more details
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