"Roy Campbell (poet) Ignatius Royston Dunnachie Campbell -- better known as Roy Campbell (2 October 1901 – 23 April 1957) -- was a South African poet and satirist. He was considered by T. S. Eliot, Dylan Thomas and Edith Sitwell to have been one of the best poets of the period between the First and Second World Wars. Campbell's vocal attacks upon the Marxism and Freudianism, and support for causes such as Francisco Franco's Nationalists during the Spanish Civil War, made him a polarizing figure. In a 2009 essay, Roger Scruton wrote, ""Campbell wrote vigorous rhyming pentameters, into which he"
"Dylan Thomas Dylan Marlais Thomas (27 October 1914 – 9 November 1953) was a Welsh poet and writer whose works include the poems ""Do not go gentle into that good night"" and ""And death shall have no dominion""; the 'play for voices' ""Under Milk Wood""; and stories and radio broadcasts such as ""A Child's Christmas in Wales"" and ""Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog"". He became widely popular in his lifetime and remained so after his premature death at the age of 39 in New York City. By then he had acquired a reputation, which he had encouraged,"
"however, and he went on to record to vinyl such works as ""A Child's Christmas in Wales"". During his fourth trip to New York in 1953, Thomas became gravely ill and fell into a coma, from which he never recovered. He died on 9 November 1953. His body was returned to Wales, where he was interred at the village churchyard in Laugharne on 25 November 1953. Although Thomas wrote exclusively in the English language, he has been acknowledged as one of the most important Welsh poets of the 20th century. He is noted for his original, rhythmic and ingenious use"
"The trip also resulted in Thomas recording his first poetry to vinyl, which Caedmon Records released in America later that year. One of his works recorded during this time, ""A Child's Christmas in Wales"", became his most popular prose work in America. The original 1952 recording of ""A Child's Christmas in Wales"" was a 2008 selection for the United States National Recording Registry, stating that it is ""credited with launching the audiobook industry in the United States"". In April 1953 Thomas returned alone for a third tour of America. He performed a ""work in progress"" version of ""Under Milk Wood"","
"Ieuan ap Hywel Swrdwal Ieuan ap Hywel Swrdwal (?1430 - ?1480) was a Welsh poet, from Norman stock. He composed primarily in Welsh, but was also responsible for the first known poem in the English language written by a Welshman. His father Hywel Swrdwal was also a poet, and there are doubts as to whether a number of extant works should be attributed to the father or to the son. He is reputed to have composed a history of Wales, but this has not survived. The ""Hymn to the Virgin"" was written by Ieuan at Oxford in about 1470 and"
"in transit"", was published in 1945, and his ""Letters from India"" in 1946. Several collections of his poems, letters and stories have been published subsequently. Alun Lewis (poet) Alun Lewis (1 July 1915 – 5 March 1944) was a Welsh poet. He is one of the best-known English-language poets of the Second World War Alun Lewis, was born on 1 July 1915 at Cwmaman, near Aberdare in Cynon Valley in the South Wales Coalfield. His father and mother were school teachers at llanwern; and he had a younger sister, Mair and two brothers. By the time he won a scholarship"
"ludis et hortis virginibus puerisque"". Part I – A Child's Garden of Verses The Child Alone Garden Days Envoys A Child's Garden of Verses A Child's Garden of Verses is a collection of poetry for children about childhood, illness, play and solitude by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson. The collection first appeared in 1885 under the title Penny Whistles, but has been reprinted many times, often in illustrated versions. It contains about 65 poems including the cherished classics ""Foreign Children,"" ""The Lamplighter,"" ""The Land of Counterpane,"" ""Bed in Summer,"" ""My Shadow"" and ""The Swing."" The classical scholar Terrot Reaveley"
"22 February 1952, Thomas recorded five of his poems: ""In the white giant's thigh"", ""Fern Hill"", ""Do not go gentle into that good night"", ""Ballad of the Long-legged Bait"", and ""Ceremony After a Fire Raid"". When they asked him what he would use to fill up the LP's B-side, rather than more poetry, Thomas preferred a story. He could not remember its actual title and said that he wanted to read, as he phrased it, """"A Child's Christmas in Wales"""". On the day of recording, Thomas arrived at the studio without a copy of his story. A copy of ""Harper's"
"Madog ap Gwallter Madog ap Gwallter (fl c. 1250) was a medieval Welsh language poet. It is thought that Madog was a Franciscan friar who lived in the middle of the 13th century. He is noted for having composed the earliest surviving poem on the Nativity of Christ in Welsh (""Geni Iesu"" or ""Mab a'n rhodded""). He also composed an ode to God and many short poems (englynion) to the Archangel Michael. While categorized as among the Gogynfeirdd, Madog ap Gwallter presents more homely figures in the Nativity poem. The theological knowledge in the ode to God suggests training, supporting"
"A Child's Garden of Verses A Child's Garden of Verses is a collection of poetry for children about childhood, illness, play and solitude by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson. The collection first appeared in 1885 under the title Penny Whistles, but has been reprinted many times, often in illustrated versions. It contains about 65 poems including the cherished classics ""Foreign Children,"" ""The Lamplighter,"" ""The Land of Counterpane,"" ""Bed in Summer,"" ""My Shadow"" and ""The Swing."" The classical scholar Terrot Reaveley Glover published a translation of the poems into Latin in 1922 under the title ""Carmina non prius audita de"
"in character. Daniel Owen is credited as the first Welsh-language novelist, publishing ""Rhys Lewis"" in 1885. The best-known of the Anglo-Welsh poets are both Thomases. Dylan Thomas became famous on both sides of the Atlantic in the mid-20th century. He is remembered for his poetry—his ""Do not go gentle into that good night; Rage, rage against the dying of the light"" is one of the most quoted couplets of English language verse—and for his ""play for voices"", ""Under Milk Wood"". The influential Church in Wales ""poet-priest"" and Welsh nationalist R. S. Thomas was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature"
"Minnie Louise Haskins Minnie Louise Haskins (12 May 1875 – 3 February 1957) was a British poet and an academic in the field of sociology, best known for being quoted by King George VI in his Royal Christmas Message of 1939. Haskins was born at 2 Kingswood Hill, Oldland, South Gloucestershire, six miles east of Bristol, and she grew up in the neighbouring village of Warmley. Her father was Joseph Haskins, a grocer, and her mother was Louisa Bridges. She was a Congregationalist and she taught Sunday School for many years. She studied informally at University College, Bristol while undertaking"
"Christmas Day in the Workhouse In the Workhouse : Christmas Day, better known as Christmas Day in the Workhouse, is a dramatic monologue written as a ballad by campaigning journalist George Robert Sims and first published in ""The Referee"" for the Christmas of 1877. It appeared in Sims' regular ""Mustard and Cress"" column under the pseudonym Dagonet and was collected in book form in 1881 as one of ""The Dagonet Ballads"", which sold over 100,000 copies within a year. It is a criticism of the harsh conditions in English and Welsh workhouses under the 1834 Poor Law. As a popular"
"Home in Oxford on Christmas Day 1960. H. W. Garrod Heathcote William Garrod ( 21 January 1878 – 25 December 1960) was a British classical scholar and literary scholar. Garrod was born in Wells, Somerset, the fifth of six children of solicitor Charles William Garrod and his wife, Louisa (""née"" Ashby). He attended Bath College and Balliol College, Oxford. He received the 1900 Gaisford prize for Greek prose, and in 1901 the Newdigate Prize for an English poem. Following a first class in the Final Honour School of Literae Humaniores in the summer term of 1901, he was in October"
"T. P. Cameron Wilson Theodore Percival Cameron Wilson (April 25, 1888 - March 23, 1918), was an English poet and novelist of the First World War, best known for his poem ""Magpies in Picardy"", published posthumously in 1919 by The Poetry Bookshop. Wilson was born in Paignton, Devon, where his father, Theodore Cameron Wilson, was vicar of Christchurch. His mother was Annie Smith, possibly an American; his grandfather, the Reverend Theodore Percival Wilson, had been a popular novelist. He was the fourth of six children; the youngest brother became a successful actor under the name of Charles Cameron, and one"
"Christina Rossetti Christina Georgina Rossetti (5 December 1830 – 29 December 1894) was an English poet who wrote a variety of romantic, devotional, and children's poems. She is famous for writing ""Goblin Market"" and ""Remember"". She also wrote the words of two Christmas carols well known in the British Isles: ""In the Bleak Midwinter"", later set to music by Gustav Holst and by Harold Darke, and ""Love Came Down at Christmas"", also set by Harold Darke and other composers. Christina Rossetti was born in Charlotte Street (now 105 Hallam Street), London, to Gabriele Rossetti, a poet and a political exile"
"Ann Griffiths Ann Griffiths (née Thomas, 1776–1805) was a Welsh poet and writer of Methodist Christian hymns. Her poetry expresses a fervent evangelical Christian faith and reflects thorough scriptural knowledge. Ann was born in April 1776 near the village of Llanfihangel-yng-Ngwynfa, from the market town of Llanfyllin (in the former county of Montgomeryshire) in Powys. She was the daughter of John Evan Thomas, a tenant farmer and churchwarden, and his wife, Jane. She had two older sisters, an older brother, John, and a younger brother, Edward. Her parents' house, Dolwar Fechan, was an isolated farm-house some south of Llanfihangel and"
"Winnipeg at Christmas."" The poem appeared in print soon after—on New Year's Day, 1930—in the British magazine ""Punch"". This poem is familiar to many inhabitants of Winnipeg, who were first exposed to it in school, and is often cited during the Christmas season. Fred Penner, a children's entertainer from Winnipeg, included it on his 1990 recording for Christmas, entitled ""The Season."" Rose Fyleman Rose Amy Fyleman (1877–1957) was an English writer and poet, noted for her works on the fairy folk, for children. Her poem ""There are fairies at the bottom of our garden"" was set to music by English"
"Childhood"" has also been adapted for voices (in the style of ""Under Milk Wood"") by Judith Cook. Mentioned in the parody ""Diary by Isaiah Berlin as told to Craig Brown"", ""Private Eye"" no 1239, 9 July 2009, in which Rowse plans a dinner for Princess Margaret at All Souls College. A. L. Rowse Alfred Leslie Rowse (4 December 1903 – 3 October 1997) was a British author and historian from Cornwall. Rowse is best known for his work on Elizabethan England and his poetry about Cornwall. He was also a Shakespearean scholar and biographer. Rowse was born at Tregonissey, near"
"John Jenkins (Gwili) John Jenkins (8 October 1872 – 16 May 1936), known by his bardic name of Gwili, was a Welsh poet and theologian who served as Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales from 1932 to 1936. Gwili was born at Hendy in Carmarthenshire, the fifth child of John Jenkins, a metal refiner, and Elizabeth, his wife. Both his parents were fervent Baptists, so that he received much of his primary education in the Baptist Sunday School movement. He attended Hendy Primary School, where he served as a pupil teacher in 1885–90. In the late 19th and early"
"Localities"" was published in 1855 while he was working as a traveller for a Manchester printing firm. He wrote also prose: ""Factory Folk"", ""Besom Ben Stories"", and ""The Chimney Corner"". His Lancashire dialect songs, collected as ""Poems and Songs"" (1859), brought him local fame. He has been called ""the Lancashire Burns."" His most famous poem is ""Come whoam to thi childer an' me"", 1856. Edwin Waugh Edwin Waugh (1817–1890) was an English poet. The son of a shoemaker, Waugh was born in Rochdale, Lancashire, England and, after some schooling, was apprenticed to a printer, Thomas Holden, at the age of"
"following the death of his wife and their son there, he married again and moved to a small farm near Denbigh. Unfortunately, when his daughter Alwen died in 1891, age 17, he was much affected, and his own health rapidly deteriorated. He died in March 1894 and was buried at Whitchurch, Denbigh. His writings include a number of poems in classical metres, and some free verse, such as ""Pryddest Llywarch Hen"" and ""Rhieingerdd Elwy ac Alwen"", he also wrote a novel, ""Y Sesiwn yng Nghymru"" (""On the Great Sessions of Wales""), which won an eisteddfod prize. A number of his"
"collection of Christmas carols included some version of words and music together, most of them ending with the refrain ""On Christmas Day in the morning"". One of the most popular of these is ""What Child Is This?"", written in 1865 by William Chatterton Dix. In Shakespeare's ""The Merry Wives of Windsor"" (written c. 1597; first published in 1602), the character Mistress Ford refers twice to ""the tune of 'Greensleeves'"", and Falstaff later exclaims: These allusions indicate the song was already well known at that time. <score lang=""lilypond""> \new Staff { </score> Greensleeves ""Greensleeves"" is a traditional English folk song and"
"sent Thomas a note offering him a business proposition: to record Thomas reading his poetry and the partners would market the recording under their newly conceived record label, Caedmon Records. Thomas agreed, and on February 22, 1952, at Steinway Hall, Thomas, Holdride and Mantell made history with the poet’s reading of his story, “A Child's Christmas in Wales” on the B side of the album. With this one act the partners accomplished two things, cementing the poet’s career as well as birthing the audiobook industry. The partners set up a small office in New York and began to invite other"
"What Child Is This? ""What Child Is This?"" is a Christmas carol whose lyrics were written by William Chatterton Dix, in 1865. At the time of composing the carol, Dix worked as an insurance company manager and had been struck by a severe illness. While recovering, he underwent a spiritual renewal that led him to write several hymns, including lyrics to this carol that was subsequently set to the tune of ""Greensleeves"", a traditional English folk song. Although it was written in Great Britain, the carol is more popular in the United States than in its country of origin today."
"mistakenly equated to Llanfihangel Glyn Myfyr. Only three of Madog's poems have survived. The texts of two of these poems can be found in the Red Book of Hergest. Madog ap Gwallter Madog ap Gwallter (fl c. 1250) was a medieval Welsh language poet. It is thought that Madog was a Franciscan friar who lived in the middle of the 13th century. He is noted for having composed the earliest surviving poem on the Nativity of Christ in Welsh (""Geni Iesu"" or ""Mab a'n rhodded""). He also composed an ode to God and many short poems (englynion) to the Archangel"
"English might be said to begin with the fifteenth-century bard Ieuan ap Hywel Swrdwal (?1430 - ?1480), whose ""Hymn to the Virgin"" was written at Oxford in England in about 1470 and uses a Welsh poetic form, the ""awdl"", and Welsh orthography; for example: A rival claim for the first Welsh writer to use English creatively is made for the poet, John Clanvowe (1341–1391). The influence of Welsh English can be seen in ""My People"" by Caradoc Evans, which uses it in dialogue (but not narrative); ""Under Milk Wood"" by Dylan Thomas, originally a radio play; and Niall Griffiths whose"
"children. He was playing the organ at church services at the age of 13. His improvisations on both piano and organ were inspiring. Tom Lovatt-Williams Tom Lovatt-Williams, often known as T. Lovatt Williams, (28 May 1897 – 22 September 1986) was an English poet and writer about railways and nature topics. His best-known poem, ""Oxford"", was broadcast several times on the BBC programme ""Poetry Please"", and is included in the published anthology of favourite poems from that programme. His novel ""The Gentle Years"" was read on the BBC's Book at Bedtime by Richard Harris. What was not publicised at the"
"years 1930-36 and published in 1936, but a second collection of his work, ""Y Gwin a Cherddi Eraill"", was published after his death in 1948. Hooson is best known for his poems written for children and he also wrote a Welsh language adaptation of ""The Pied Piper of Hamelin"" under the title ""Y Fantell Fraith"" in 1934. A memorial to I. D. Hooson was erected on the Panorama, near Llangollen. Ysgol I D Hooson, in Rhosllanerchrugog, is a Welsh-language school named after the poet. Isaac Daniel Hooson Isaac Daniel Hooson (2 September 1880 – 18 October 1948), or I. D."
"October 2010. In early 2013, Lewis released his second English language album, which again featured backing vocals from Sarah Howells. The album also features a rerecorded version of ""Llosgi"". The album was produced by Charlie Peacock. The album was recorded at his home studio in Nashville. In December 2013 Lewis released a Christmas single, ""A Child's Christmas in Wales"", in homage to Welsh poet and writer Dylan Thomas. The song was added to the BBC Radio 2 playlist. By his links in Nashville, Lewis met Mississippi-born singer-songwriter Alva Leigh and they formed the band Lewis and Leigh. As of October"
"John Ceiriog Hughes John Ceiriog Hughes (25 September 1832 – 23 April 1887), was a Welsh poet and a well-known collector of Welsh folk tunes. He was sometimes referred to as the ""Robert Burns of Wales"". Ceiriog was born at Penybryn Farm, overlooking the village of Llanarmon Dyffryn Ceiriog in the Ceiriog Valley of north-east Wales, then in Denbighshire and now part of Wrexham County Borough. His mother, Phoebe, was a midwife and an expert in herbal medicine. He was one of eight children, and a favourite of his mother's. At 18, Hughes left the village to live in Manchester,"
"herself as Welsh by adoption, later referring to Wales as ""Land of my childhood, my home and my dead"". Her first poems, dedicated to the Prince of Wales, were published in Liverpool in 1808, when she was only fourteen, arousing the interest of Percy Bysshe Shelley, who briefly corresponded with her. A number of notable authors have visited Liverpool, including Daniel Defoe, Washington Irving, Thomas De Quincey, Herman Melville, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Charles Dickens, Gerard Manley Hopkins and Hugh Walpole. Daniel Defoe, after visiting the city, described it, as ""one of the wonders of Britain in his ""'Tour through England and"
"of Vaynol in about 1540. They had four children: Alis Wen Alis ferch Gruffudd ab Ieuan ap Llywelyn Fychan or Alis Wen (""Alice the White""; 1520–?) was a poet who wrote in Welsh. She was the daughter of Gruffudd ab Ieuan ap Llywelyn Fychan ( 1485–1553) of Llannerch and Sioned ferch Rhisiart ab Hywel of Mostyn (died 1540). Her two sisters, Catrin and Gwen, were also poets. Alis composed series of ""englynion"" discussing the kind of husband she wished to marry and commenting on her father's second marriage in old age, and a ""cywydd"" to reconcile Dafydd Llwyd Llydan and"