"Cyril Holland Cyril Holland (born Cyril Wilde, 5 June 1885 – 9 May 1915) was the older of the two sons of Oscar Wilde and Constance Lloyd and brother to Vyvyan Holland. According to Vyvyan Holland’s accounts in his autobiography, ""Son of Oscar Wilde"", Oscar was a devoted and loving father to his two sons and their childhood was a relatively happy one. However, after Wilde's imprisonment for gross indecency in 1895, Constance chose to take on the surname Holland for both the boys and herself. She took the boys to Switzerland and then enrolled them in an English-speaking school"
"by whom he had seven sons and three daughters, including the poet Abraham Holland, the publisher and miscellanist Henry Holland, the print publisher Compton Holland (died 1622), William Holland (1592–1632), a surgeon whose treatise on gout, ""Gutta Podagrica"", was published posthumously in 1633, and Elizabeth Holland, who married a London merchant, William Angell. Philemon Holland Philemon Holland (1552 – 9 February 1637) was an English schoolmaster, physician and translator. He is known for the first English translations of several works by Livy, Pliny the Elder, and Plutarch, and also for translating William Camden's ""Britannia"" into English. Philemon Holland, born at"
"‘To my honest father, Mr. Michael Drayton, and my new, yet loved friend, Mr. Will. Browne’. Abraham Holland Abraham Holland (died 18 February 1626) was an English poet. He was the son of the translator, Philemon Holland, and the brother of the printer, Henry Holland. His best known work is the ""Naumachia"", a poem on the Battle of Lepanto in 1571. Abraham Holland was one of the ten children of the translator Philemon Holland and his wife, Anne Bott (1555–1627), the daughter of William Bott (""alias"" Peyton) of Perry Hall, Handsworth, Staffordshire. Holland was a grandson of the Marian exile,"
"Jane Holland Jane Holland (born 17 November 1966 in Ilford, Essex) is an English poet and novelist. She won an Eric Gregory Award from the Society of Authors for her poetry in 1996. Her sister is the novelist, actress and singer Sarah Holland. She also writes fiction under the pseudonyms Victoria Lamb, Elizabeth Moss, Beth Good and Hannah Coates. Her novel ""Witchstruck"", written as Victoria Lamb, won the Romantic Novelists' Association's Young Adult Romantic Novel of the Year Award for 2013. Jane Holland was born on 17 November 1966 in Ilford, Essex, England, the daughter of the romantic novelist Sheila"
"Abraham Holland Abraham Holland (died 18 February 1626) was an English poet. He was the son of the translator, Philemon Holland, and the brother of the printer, Henry Holland. His best known work is the ""Naumachia"", a poem on the Battle of Lepanto in 1571. Abraham Holland was one of the ten children of the translator Philemon Holland and his wife, Anne Bott (1555–1627), the daughter of William Bott (""alias"" Peyton) of Perry Hall, Handsworth, Staffordshire. Holland was a grandson of the Marian exile, John Holland (d.1578), rector of Great Dunmow, Essex. Holland had six brothers and three sisters, including"
"John Holland (poet) John Holland (14 March 1794 – 28 December 1872) was an English poet, newspaper editor, and writer on mining and metallurgy. Holland was born in a cottage in the grounds of the ancient Sheffield Manor in Yorkshire and initially trained by his father to follow him as a maker of optical instruments. However, he was a bookish young man who taught himself Latin and soon began publishing his own poems. These eventually brought him to the notice of a local poet, James Montgomery, editor of the Sheffield Iris, who published both articles and poems of his in"
"Press), a collection of poems written during her year as Warwick Poet Laureate, including the long experimental poem ""On Warwick Castle"". Jane Holland Jane Holland (born 17 November 1966 in Ilford, Essex) is an English poet and novelist. She won an Eric Gregory Award from the Society of Authors for her poetry in 1996. Her sister is the novelist, actress and singer Sarah Holland. She also writes fiction under the pseudonyms Victoria Lamb, Elizabeth Moss, Beth Good and Hannah Coates. Her novel ""Witchstruck"", written as Victoria Lamb, won the Romantic Novelists' Association's Young Adult Romantic Novel of the Year Award"
"Philemon Holland Philemon Holland (1552 – 9 February 1637) was an English schoolmaster, physician and translator. He is known for the first English translations of several works by Livy, Pliny the Elder, and Plutarch, and also for translating William Camden's ""Britannia"" into English. Philemon Holland, born at Chelmsford, Essex, in 1552, was the son of John Holland (died 1578), a member of the same Norfolk family as John Holland, 1st Baron Holland (1603–1701). The Norfolk branch claimed kinship with the Hollands of Up Holland, Lancashire, but this is questionable. Holland's grandfather, Edward Holland, was from Glassthorpe, Northamptonshire. Holland's father, John"
"Newcastle, 1832; ""A Poet’s Gratulation"", Sheffield, 1851; ""Diurnal Sonnets: 366 poetical meditations on various subjects, personal, abstract and local, comprising several founded on the more striking festivals and observances of the Christian year"", Sheffield, 1852. John Holland (poet) John Holland (14 March 1794 – 28 December 1872) was an English poet, newspaper editor, and writer on mining and metallurgy. Holland was born in a cottage in the grounds of the ancient Sheffield Manor in Yorkshire and initially trained by his father to follow him as a maker of optical instruments. However, he was a bookish young man who taught himself"
"He wrote the dedication to Charles I of his father's ""Cyropaedia"" of Xenophon (1632), and edited after Philemon's death his Latin version of Brice Bauderon's ""Pharmacopœia"" in 1639, and his ""Regimen Sanitatis Salerni"" in 1649. Henry Holland (printer) Henry Holland (1583–1650?) was an English bookseller and printer. Henry Holland, born at Coventry on 29 September 1583, was one of the ten children of the translator Philemon Holland and his wife Anne Bott (1555–1627). He came to London as a youth, and usually designated himself ""Londonopolitanus"". He was made free of the Stationers' Company on 5 December 1608. In 1613 he"
"and wrote and translated plays, mostly comedies. He also worked on the ""Heroides"" of Ovid and the "" Basia"" of Janus Secundus. Jacob Westerbaen Ridder Jacob Westerbaen (7 September 1599 – 31 March 1670), ""heer"" (squire) of Brantwyck-en-Ghybelant, was a Dutch poet. Westerbaen was born in The Hague, the son of a rope maker, and was initially schooled in the Staten-College, then as secretary and preacher of the Remonstrants of the Synod of Dort. There he studied medicine, after which he established himself in 1623 as a physician in the Hague. Two years later he married Anna Weytsen, the widow"
"and had three children. Anthony Wood recorded a copy of his epitaph in which Holland described himself as ""Miserimus peccator, musarum et amicitiarum cultor sanctissimus."" Hugh Holland Hugh Holland (1569–1633), the son of Robert Holland, was born in Denbigh in the north of Wales. He was educated at Westminster School under William Camden, where he excelled in classics, and proceeded in 1589 to Trinity College, Cambridge on a scholarship. On completion of his studies, he travelled abroad, as far as Rome, where unguarded remarks about Queen Elizabeth caused him some trouble, and Jerusalem where he may have been made a"
"Paulding, Gulian Crommelin Verplanck, Fitz-Greene Halleck, Joseph Rodman Drake, Lydia M. Child, and Nathaniel Parker Willis. Robert Charles Sands Robert Charles Sands (May 11, 1799 Flatbush, Kings County, New York – December 17, 1832 Hoboken, Hudson County, New Jersey) was an American writer and poet. He was the son of Auditor-General Comfort Sands. He was a scholar and a writer of many literary types, but without much originality. His best work is considered to be in his short stories. His most well-known poem is ""Yamoyden"" which is an Indian story written in collaboration with a friend. He is considered part"
"world premiere presentations of ""Oscar"", which was composed by Theodore Morrison from a libretto written by John Cox and the composer. Holland's play ""The Trials of Oscar Wilde"", co-authored with John O'Connor and re-enacting the 1895 trials of Lord Queensberry for libel and Oscar Wilde for gross indecency, toured the United Kingdom in 2014 in a production by the European Arts Company. Holland lives in Burgundy, France with his wife, Emma. His son, Lucian Holland (born 1979 to first wife Sarah), Oscar Wilde's only great-grandchild, studied classics at Magdalen College (where he occupied rooms Wilde had occupied) and is a"
"the ""Regimen"". Holland also translated Xenophon's ""Cyropaedia"", completing a first draft in 1621, and continuing to work on it for the ensuing decade. It was published in 1632, prefaced by his portrait and a dedication to Charles I by Holland's son, the printer Henry Holland. The volume also included a reprint of a poem on the Battle of Lepanto by Holland's son, the poet Abraham Holland, and a description by Henry Holland of his father's signet ring. Holland's translation style was free and colloquial, sometimes employing relatively obscure dialect and archaic vocabulary, and often expanding on his source text in"
"Adriaan Roland Holst Adriaan Roland Holst (Amsterdam, 23 May 1888 – Bergen, 5 August 1976) was a Dutch writer, nicknamed the ""Prince of Dutch Poets"". He was the second winner, in 1948, of the Constantijn Huygens Prize. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Holst was the nephew of painter Richard Roland Holst and writer Henriette Roland Holst. His extensive oeuvre is characterized by its own solemn style and rich symbolism. The artist Richard Roland Holst was a brother of his father and his wife Henriette Roland Holst-van der Schalk, the poet, writer and socialist was his aunt."
"by Holland's brother, Henry, of John Davies of Hereford's ""Scourge of Folly"" of 1611. Holland died of the plague on 18 February 1626, perhaps at Chelsea, where he appears to have lived for a time. Following his death his brother Henry published a collection of his poems, entitling it ""Hollandi Posthuma"". Included in it were an elegy on King James, an elegy on Henry de Vere, 18th Earl of Oxford, a lengthy poem on the 1625 plague in London, an epistle to his father, Philemon Holland, who was in ill health at the time, as well as various epistles, translations"
"Sir Henry Holland, 1st Baronet Sir Henry Holland, 1st Baronet, FRS (27 October 1788 – 27 October 1873), was a British physician and travel writer. Born in Knutsford, Cheshire, Holland was the son of the physician Peter Holland (1766–1853) and his wife Mary Willets. Peter's sister Elizabeth was the mother of the novelist Elizabeth Gaskell, and Mary was the niece of the potter Josiah Wedgwood. He studied medicine at Edinburgh University (MA, 1811). He had an extensive practice and was Domestic Physician to Caroline, Princess of Wales (briefly in 1814) and Physician Extraordinary to William IV and to Queen Victoria."
"William Henry Leonard Poe William Henry Leonard Poe, often referred to as Henry Poe, (January 30, 1807 – August 1, 1831) was a sailor, amateur poet and the older brother of Edgar Allan Poe and Rosalie Poe. After the death of their parents, the three Poe children were split up: Henry lived with family in Baltimore, Maryland, while Edgar and Rosalie were cared for by two different families in Richmond, Virginia. Before the age of 20, Henry traveled around the globe by sea before returning to Baltimore and becoming a published poet and author. One of his works, ""The Pirate"","
"He was 29. Julian Bell Julian Heward Bell (4 February 1908 – 18 July 1937) was an English poet, and the son of Clive and Vanessa Bell (who was the elder sister of Virginia Woolf). The writer Quentin Bell was his younger brother and the writer and painter Angelica Garnett was his half-sister. His relationship with his mother is explored in Susan Sellers' novel ""Vanessa and Virginia"". Julian Heward Bell was born in St Pancras, London, and was brought up at Charleston, Sussex. He was educated at Leighton Park School and King's College, Cambridge, where he joined the Cambridge Apostles."
"history when it was published in 1982. Holland was born on November 1961 at Folkestone, Kent, England. The daughter of Sheila Coates Holland (best-selling novelist Charlotte Lamb) and classical biographer, ex-""Times"" journalist Richard Holland, she has two sisters; poet and novelist Jane Holland and artist and singer/songwriter Charlotte Holland known as Miss Spooky Mooky, and two brothers Michael Holland and David Holland; both musicians and singer/songwriters. Holland suffered epilepsy in her teens and had to leave Wanstead High School, London with a handful of O levels at sixteen. Subsequently, educated at home by her parents, who owned a private library"
"Julian Bell Julian Heward Bell (4 February 1908 – 18 July 1937) was an English poet, and the son of Clive and Vanessa Bell (who was the elder sister of Virginia Woolf). The writer Quentin Bell was his younger brother and the writer and painter Angelica Garnett was his half-sister. His relationship with his mother is explored in Susan Sellers' novel ""Vanessa and Virginia"". Julian Heward Bell was born in St Pancras, London, and was brought up at Charleston, Sussex. He was educated at Leighton Park School and King's College, Cambridge, where he joined the Cambridge Apostles. He was a"
"his own, dismissing Fitzgerald as a ""scribbler."" Fitzgerald was also parodied in the ""Rejected Addresses"" of James and Horace Smith (1812); indeed, he suffers the sad fate of being remembered for inspiring the satires of Byron and the Smiths, rather than for his own writings. William Thomas Fitzgerald William Thomas Fitzgerald (13 April 1759 – 9 July 1829) was a British poet. Fitzgerald was the son of Colonel John Austen (or Anster) Fitzgerald of the Dutch service and Henrietta Martin, daughter of an Antigua planter and sister of Samuel Martin MP. Fitzgerald's own sister married barrister John Anthony Fonblanque. Educated"
"his public life considered, it was unexampled."" Robert Owenson Robert Owenson (""Robert MacOwen"") (1744–1812) was an Irish actor, author and father of Lady Olivia Clark and novelist Sydney, Lady Morgan. Born in Tirawley, on the Mayo–Sligo border, Owenson established a National Theatre Music Hall at Fishamble Street, Dublin, the theatre where Handel's Messiah had been first performed in 1742. Here plays and songs were performed in English and in Irish. Owenson was introduced as an actor by Oliver Goldsmith and David Garrick; he had his London debut at Covent Garden in 1774. He opened his Dublin theatre at Fishamble Street"
"Kevin Crossley-Holland Kevin John William Crossley-Holland (born 7 February 1941) is an English translator, children's author and poet. His best known work may now be the Arthur trilogy, published around age sixty (2000–2003), for which he won the Guardian Prize and other recognition. Crossley-Holland and his 1985 novella ""Storm"" won the annual Carnegie Medal from the Library Association, recognising the year's outstanding children's book by a British author. For the 70th anniversary of the Medal in 2007 it was named one of the top ten winning works, selected by a panel to compose the ballot for a public election of"
"Rick Holland Rick Holland is an English poet and independent artist. He was born in Aldershot in 1978. His first book 'Story the Flowers' was made at Calvert's Co-Operative Press in Bethnal Green in 2010. The work is constructed within the tradition of psychogeography and of the city wanderer or flaneur and has been re-imagined and cited as influence for other artists, most recently East India Youth in the naming of his album, 'Culture of Volume', taken from the poem 'Monument'. Often collaborating with artists in other fields, his most notable collaborative pieces have been with Brian Eno and released"
"Robert Owenson Robert Owenson (""Robert MacOwen"") (1744–1812) was an Irish actor, author and father of Lady Olivia Clark and novelist Sydney, Lady Morgan. Born in Tirawley, on the Mayo–Sligo border, Owenson established a National Theatre Music Hall at Fishamble Street, Dublin, the theatre where Handel's Messiah had been first performed in 1742. Here plays and songs were performed in English and in Irish. Owenson was introduced as an actor by Oliver Goldsmith and David Garrick; he had his London debut at Covent Garden in 1774. He opened his Dublin theatre at Fishamble Street in 1785. Owenson's daughter, the novelist Sydney,"
"William Thomas Fitzgerald William Thomas Fitzgerald (13 April 1759 – 9 July 1829) was a British poet. Fitzgerald was the son of Colonel John Austen (or Anster) Fitzgerald of the Dutch service and Henrietta Martin, daughter of an Antigua planter and sister of Samuel Martin MP. Fitzgerald's own sister married barrister John Anthony Fonblanque. Educated at Greenwich, the Royal College of Navarre in the University of Paris and the Inner Temple where his tutor was Vicary Gibbs he married very late in life to Maria Howorth in December 1826. It appears only one of their children was born after this"
"signifies ""Denys's son"", although no connection between the two families is recorded. Alfred, Lord Tennyson Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson (6 August 1809 – 6 October 1892) was a British poet. He was the Poet Laureate of Great Britain and Ireland during much of Queen Victoria's reign and remains one of the most popular British poets. In 1829, Tennyson was awarded the Chancellor's Gold Medal at Cambridge for one of his first pieces, ""Timbuktu"". He published his first solo collection of poems, ""Poems Chiefly Lyrical"" in 1830. ""Claribel"" and ""Mariana"", which remain some of Tennyson's most celebrated poems, were included"
"Herman Wildenvey's poetry. ""Direct translations of Norwegian titles shown in parentheses"". Herman Wildenvey Herman Wildenvey (20 July 1885 – 27 September 1959), born Herman Theodor Portaas, was one of the most prominent Norwegian poets of the twentieth century. During his lifetime he published 44 books of his own poetry, in addition to translations of William Shakespeare, Ernest Hemingway, and Heinrich Heine. He was married to the novelist, Gisken Wildenvey. Wildenvey was born at Mjøndalen in Nedre Eiker, near the city of Drammen in Buskerud, Norway. He was the son of Lauritz Portaas and Hanna Kristine Grosvold. He was born outside"
"have been sold to producers, but as yet, have not been made into films. Holland has written material for Bob Monkhouse, Lenny Henry, Harry Enfield, Des O'Connor, Clive Anderson and many others. Holland has published two comic novels, ""Only in America"" and ""The Ripple Effect"". His third novel, ""A Man's Life"", was published in 2013. For two years Holland wrote the ""Funny Money"" column for ""The Guardian"". In January 2013 Holland published ""How Tom Holland Eclipsed His Dad"". Holland and his wife, photographer Nicola Elizabeth Frost, have four sons together: actor and performer Tom Holland, twins Sam and Harry born"
"Jack Holland (writer) Jack Holland (4 June 1947 – 14 May 2004) was an Irish journalist, novelist, and poet who built a reputation chronicling ""The Troubles"" in his native Northern Ireland. He published articles, short stories, four novels, and seven works of non-fiction, mostly dealing with the politics and cultural life of Northern Ireland. His last book, ""Misogyny: The World's Oldest Prejudice"", was something of a departure from his usual writings, and its original publisher abandoned the finished manuscript shortly after Holland's death, which followed a brief struggle with cancer. However, the book was later published posthumously by a different"
"Robert Thomas (Ap Vychan) Robert Thomas (1809 - 1880), also known by the bardic name Ap Vychan, was a Welsh Independent minister, poet and man of letters. He won the chair at the national eisteddfod on two occasions. Ap Vychan was the third child of a well-educated, man of culture, Dafydd Thomas (Dewi ap Didymus), born 11 August 1809 at Pennantlliw-bach, Llanuwchllyn. He was home schooled by his father, who taught him to write poetry along with reading, writing and counting and, in 1863, Ap Vychan published a memoir of his father in which he recounts his childhood. He was"