"alongside Gene Hackman. Her next film was Hitchcock's ""Family Plot"" (1976), in which she played Julia Rainbird. She then appeared as the grandmother in ""Julia"" (1977). Her final film was ""Never Never Land"" (1980) as Edith Forbes. She was the subject of ""This Is Your Life"" in 1980 when she was surprised by Eamonn Andrews. Nesbitt became the love of English poet Rupert Brooke in 1912, who wrote love sonnets to her. They were engaged to be married, but he died in 1915 at age 27 of blood poisoning, the result of a bite from an infected mosquito while he"
"John Keats John Keats (; 31 October 1795 – 23 February 1821) was an English Romantic poet. He was one of the main figures of the second generation of Romantic poets, along with Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley, despite his works having been in publication for only four years before his death from tuberculosis at the age of 25. Although his poems were not generally well received by critics during his lifetime, his reputation grew after his death, and by the end of the 19th century, he had become one of the most beloved of all English poets. He"
"... It simply can't be done."" Yet, Robert Fraser did just that with ""The Chameleon Poet: A Life of George Barker"". George Barker (poet) George Granville Barker (26 February 1913 – 27 October 1991) was an English poet, identified with the New Apocalyptics movement, which reacted against 1930s realism with mythical and surrealistic themes. His long liaison with Elizabeth Smart was the subject of her cult-novel ""By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept"". Barker was born in Loughton, near Epping Forest in Essex, England, elder brother of the painter Kit Barker. He was raised by his Irish mother"
"William Ernest Henley William Ernest Henley (23 August 1849 – 11 July 1903) was an English poet, critic and editor of the late-Victorian era in England who is spoken of as having as central a role in his time as Samuel Johnson had in the eighteenth century. He is remembered most often for his 1875 poem ""Invictus"", a piece which recurs in popular awareness (e.g., see the 2009 Clint Eastwood film, ""Invictus""). It is one of his hospital poems from early battles with tuberculosis and is said to have developed the artistic motif of poet as a patient, and to"
"""The Coast of Barbary"". Beecham died in Churchill Hospital in 1989 from the asthma that she suffered from. Audrey Beecham Audrey Beecham or Helen Audrey Beecham (21 July 1915 – 31 January 1989) was an English poet, teacher and historian. She was born in Weaverham in 1915. Her grandfather was Sir Joseph Beecham, 1st Baronet, eldest son of Thomas Beecham, who had created a fortune with Beecham's Pills. Her uncle was the composer Sir Thomas Beecham and her father devoted time to spending his inheritance. Beecham took PPE at Somerville College in Oxford. She left with a second class degree"
"Richard Barham Middleton Richard Barham Middleton (28 October 1882 – 1 December 1911) was an English poet and author, who is remembered mostly for his short ghost stories, in particular ""The Ghost Ship"". Born in Staines, Middlesex, Middleton was educated at Cranbrook School, Kent. He then worked as a clerk at the Royal Exchange Assurance Corporation bank in London from 1901 to 1907. Unhappy with this, he affected a Bohemian life at night – he is mentioned, in disguised terms, in Arthur Ransome's ""Bohemia in London"". He moved out of his parents' house and into rooms in Blackfriars, and he"
"likely to possess; and if he couldn't make a go of it, it wasn't very likely that I could."" Richard Barham Middleton Richard Barham Middleton (28 October 1882 – 1 December 1911) was an English poet and author, who is remembered mostly for his short ghost stories, in particular ""The Ghost Ship"". Born in Staines, Middlesex, Middleton was educated at Cranbrook School, Kent. He then worked as a clerk at the Royal Exchange Assurance Corporation bank in London from 1901 to 1907. Unhappy with this, he affected a Bohemian life at night – he is mentioned, in disguised terms, in"
"George Barker (poet) George Granville Barker (26 February 1913 – 27 October 1991) was an English poet, identified with the New Apocalyptics movement, which reacted against 1930s realism with mythical and surrealistic themes. His long liaison with Elizabeth Smart was the subject of her cult-novel ""By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept"". Barker was born in Loughton, near Epping Forest in Essex, England, elder brother of the painter Kit Barker. He was raised by his Irish mother and English father in Battersea, London. He was educated at an L.C.C. school and at Regent Street Polytechnic. Having left school"
"such as ""The Blackheath Poisonings"" (1978), which was filmed for television in 1992. Julian Symons Julian Gustave Symons (pronounced ""SIMM-ons""; 30 May 1912 – 19 November 1994) was a British crime writer and poet. He also wrote social and military history, biography and studies of literature. He was born in London and died in Kent. Julian Symons was born in London to a Russian or Polish-born father and an English mother of French and Spanish antecedents. He was a younger brother, and later the biographer, of writer A. J. A. Symons. He left school at 14. He founded the poetry"
"September 1915, finally dying from the injury on 7 October. Day's collected poems were published post-war, and two of his poems were anthologized in ""A Treasury of War Poetry, British and American Poems of the World War, 1914-1919"", edited by George Herbert Clarke, and also in ""Cambridge Poets 1914-1920: an Anthology"", compiled by Edward Davison, published in 1920. Jeffery Day Flight Commander Miles Jeffery Game Day , (1 December 1896 – 27 February 1918) was a World War I flying ace credited with five aerial victories, and also a war poet. Jeffery Day, as he was commonly known, was born"
"that warr, there perished not manye by the sworde, but all by the extreamytie of famine ... they themselves had wrought'"" 1590: 1591: 1592: 1595: 1596: Posthumous: |- style=""text-align:center;"" Edmund Spenser Edmund Spenser (; 1552/1553 – 13 January 1599) was an English poet best known for ""The Faerie Queene"", an epic poem and fantastical allegory celebrating the Tudor dynasty and Elizabeth I. He is recognized as one of the premier craftsmen of nascent Modern English verse, and is often considered one of the greatest poets in the English language. Edmund Spenser was born in East Smithfield, London, around the year"
"John Masefield John Edward Masefield (; 1 June 1878 – 12 May 1967) was an English poet and writer and the Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom from 1930 until 1967. Among his best known works are the children's novels ""The Midnight Folk"" and ""The Box of Delights"", and the poems ""The Everlasting Mercy"" and ""Sea-Fever"". Masefield was born in Ledbury in Herefordshire, to Caroline and George Masefield, a solicitor. His mother died giving birth to his sister when Masefield was only six, and he went to live with his aunt. His father died soon after following a mental breakdown."
"Thomas Penny. Penny suffered from asthma and dosed himself with woodlice crushed in wine. Thomas Penny Thomas Penny (1532 – January 1589) was an English physician and early entomologist. His solo works have not survived and he is primarily known through quotations from other sixteenth-century biologists. It is believed that he broke with Aristotle on classification of caterpillars. He was also a Puritan and as such kept a low profile during the reign of Queen Mary I of England. He is perhaps best known for being partly responsible for the ""Insectorum, sive, Minimorum animalium theatrum"" or ""Theatre of Insects"". This"
"Robert Bridges Robert Seymour Bridges (23 October 1844 – 21 April 1930) was Britain's poet laureate from 1913 to 1930. A doctor by training, he achieved literary fame only late in life. His poems reflect a deep Christian faith, and he is the author of many well-known hymns. It was through Bridges’ efforts that Gerard Manley Hopkins achieved posthumous fame. Bridges was born at Walmer, Kent, in England, and educated at Eton College and Corpus Christi College, Oxford. He went on to study medicine in London at St Bartholomew's Hospital, intending to practise until the age of forty and then"
"Herbert Asquith (poet) Herbert Dixon Asquith (11 March 1881 – 5 August 1947) was an English poet, novelist, and lawyer. Nicknamed ""Beb"" by his family, he was the second son of H. H. Asquith, British Prime Minister — with whom he is frequently confused — and younger brother of Raymond Asquith. His wife Lady Cynthia Asquith, whom he married in 1910, the daughter of Hugo Richard Charteris, 11th Earl of Wemyss and Mary Constance Wyndham, was also a writer. Asquith was greatly affected by his service with the Royal Artillery in World War I. His poems include ""The Volunteer"" and"
"brief spell behind the lines. John Masefield John Edward Masefield (; 1 June 1878 – 12 May 1967) was an English poet and writer and the Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom from 1930 until 1967. Among his best known works are the children's novels ""The Midnight Folk"" and ""The Box of Delights"", and the poems ""The Everlasting Mercy"" and ""Sea-Fever"". Masefield was born in Ledbury in Herefordshire, to Caroline and George Masefield, a solicitor. His mother died giving birth to his sister when Masefield was only six, and he went to live with his aunt. His father died soon"
"remembered that Grenfell was a professional soldier, and, in any event, many British veterans of the war rejected the idea that Sassoon and Owen spoke for them. Historian Max Hastings says of Grenfell that he was ""idolised by his peers for reasons mystifying to posterity."" Julian's younger brother Gerald William (Billy) Grenfell was killed in action on 30 July 1915 within a mile of where Julian had been wounded. On 11 November 1985, Grenfell was among 16 Great War poets commemorated on a slate stone unveiled in Westminster Abbey's Poets' Corner. The inscription on the stone was written by a"
"Samuel Jackson Pratt Samuel Jackson Pratt (25 December 1749 – 4 October 1814) was a prolific English poet, dramatist and novelist, writing under the pseudonym of ""Courtney Melmoth"" as well as under his own name. He authored around 40 publications between 1770 and 1810, some of which are still published today, and is probably best remembered as the author of ""Emma Corbett: or the Miseries of Civil War,"" (1780) and the poem ""Sympathy"" (1788). Although his reputation was tainted by scandal during his lifetime, he is today recognised as an early campaigner for animal welfare and the first English writer"
"disease, on 31 March 1864, aged 76. Joseph Brackenbury Joseph Brackenbury (1788–1864), was an English poet. Brackenbury was born in 1788 at Langton, Lincolnshire, where he spent his early years. On 28 October 1808 he entrolled at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. In 1810 he published his ""Natale Solum and other Poetical Pieces"" by subscription. In 1811 he graduated B.A.; in 1812 he became chaplain to the Madras establishment, and returning after some years' service proceeded M.A. in 1819. From 1828 to 1856 he was chaplain and secretary to the Magdalen Hospital, Blackfriars Road, London. In 1862 he became rector of"
"Palmer, Albert Moore, Frederic, Lord Leighton, Henri Fantin-Latour, Lucien Pissarro, William Nicholson, Walter Crane, Charles Conder, Jessie Marion King, William Morris's daughter May Morris, William Rothenstein, Charles Ricketts and of course Paul Nash. Gordon Bottomley Gordon Bottomley (20 February 1874 –25 August 1948) was an English poet, known particularly for his verse dramas. He was partly disabled by tubercular illness. His main influences were the later Victorian Romantic poets, the Pre-Raphaelites and William Morris. Bottomley was born in Keighley, West Riding of Yorkshire on 20 February 1874, the only child of Maria and Alfred Bottomley. He was educated firstly at"
"in hospital age 69. Gerallt Lloyd Owen Gerallt Lloyd Owen (6 November 1944 – 15 July 2014) was a Welsh-language poet, considered to be one of the best ""strict-metre poets"" in Wales. He began as a ""political poet"" in the 1960s, often using medieval forms or imagery for purposes of promoting Welsh nationalism. His political works at times satirized the failings of the Welsh people, or Welsh history, rather than simply praising them. One of his later works, ""Afon"", is more about childhood. and part of it is quoted in a document on early children's education in Wales. Owen died"
"Godfried Bomans, who named a club after his pseudonym ""Teisterbant"", the bed Bilderdijk died in was kept until 1950 as a curiosity for people to look at. A commemorative gable stone was placed on the top gable of his old house in 1885, and a commemorative stone is also in the St. Bavochurch. There is a Bilderdijk Museum in Amsterdam. Willem Bilderdijk Willem Bilderdijk () (Amsterdam, 7 September 1756 – Haarlem, 18 December 1831) was a Dutch poet. He was the son of an Amsterdam physician. When he was six years old an accident to his foot incapacitated him for"
"Gide, Paul Valéry, and, most notably, Gilles Deleuze. Joë Bousquet Joë Bousquet (; 19 March 1897 – 28 September 1950) was a French poet. Bousquet was born in Narbonne. Wounded on 27 May 1918 at Vailly near the Aisne battlelines at the end of the First World War, he was paralysed for the rest of his life, and lived a life largely bedridden, surrounded by his books. His physical incapacity and constant pain (for which he took opium) caused a retreat from the world, but also became the starting point for an extensive body of poetry and writing. He contributed"
"and was nominated for an Olivier Award. Charles Sorley Captain Charles Hamilton Sorley (19 May 1895 – 13 October 1915) was a British Army officer and Scottish war poet who fought in the First World War, where he was killed in action during the Battle of Loos in October 1915. Born in Powis House Aberdeen, Scotland, he was the son of philosopher and University Professor William Ritchie Sorley. He was educated at King's College School, Cambridge, and then like Siegfried Sassoon, at Marlborough College (1908–13). At Marlborough College Sorley's favourite pursuit was cross-country running in the rain, a theme evident"
"over a century. Elizabeth Barrett Browning Elizabeth Barrett Browning (née Moulton-Barrett, ; 6 March 1806 – 29 June 1861) was an English poet of the Victorian era, popular in Britain and the United States during her lifetime. Born in County Durham, the eldest of 12 children, Elizabeth Barrett wrote poetry from about the age of six. Her mother's collection of her poems forms one of the largest extant collections of juvenilia by any English writer. At 15 she became ill, suffering intense head and spinal pain for the rest of her life. Later in life she also developed lung problems,"
"the new fertile generation of composing talent—of the Royal College, dwindled."" In the autumn of 1918 Parry contracted Spanish flu during the global pandemic and died at Knightscroft, Rustington, West Sussex, on 7 October aged 70. The death certificate says cause of death: 1.Influenza 2. Septicaemia. His daughter, Gwendoline Maud Greene, was present at his death. At the urging of Stanford, he was buried in St Paul's Cathedral. The site of his birthplace, in Richmond Hill, Bournemouth, next door to the Square, is marked with a blue plaque; there is a memorial tablet, with an inscription by the Poet Laureate,"
"even later than ""Theatrum Insectorum"", not until 1655, in an edition edited by Christopher Bennet. It has been suggested that Muffet is the subject of the nursery rhyme 'Little Miss Muffet', which, it is argued refers to an incident with one of his stepchildren. Although the name and subject fit the verse, there is no clear evidence of a connection and the verse was only printed in 1805. Thomas Muffet Thomas Muffet (also Moufet, Mouffet, or Moffet) (1553 – 5 June 1604) was an English naturalist and physician. He is best known for his Puritan beliefs, his study of insects"
"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 time was that it was based on his childhood experiences at Ellesmere, near Oswestry, where he was born. He was a regular contributor"
"Gordon Bottomley Gordon Bottomley (20 February 1874 –25 August 1948) was an English poet, known particularly for his verse dramas. He was partly disabled by tubercular illness. His main influences were the later Victorian Romantic poets, the Pre-Raphaelites and William Morris. Bottomley was born in Keighley, West Riding of Yorkshire on 20 February 1874, the only child of Maria and Alfred Bottomley. He was educated firstly at home by his mother and then at the local grammar school. Aged seven, Bottomley contracted a tubercular illness that would affect him for the rest of his life. As a result he was"
"Philip Bourke Marston Philip Bourke Marston (13 August 1850 – 13 February 1887) was an English poet. He was the son of John Westland Marston. He was born in London 13 August 1850. Philip James Bailey and Dinah Maria Mulock were his sponsors, and the most popular of the latter's short poems, ""Philip, my King,"" is addressed to him. When only three years old he experienced the irreparable misfortune of loss of sight, occasioned by the injudicious administration of belladonna as a prophylactic against scarlet fever, aggravated, it was thought, by an accidental blow. The privation of vision was not"
"cause of death is unknown. He was buried in the cloisters of his school. Samuel Cobb (poet) Samuel Cobb (""baptized"" 1675 - 1713) was an English poet, critic and school master who was known for a light hearted, ironic pose in his verse and a witty, good natured personal life. He was born in London and orphaned early in his life. He attended Christ's Hospital under the Lord Mayor's charity and continued with indigent aid to Trinity College, Cambridge for his B.A. in 1698 and M.A. in 1702. Upon graduation with the master's degree, he began teaching at his old"
"Catherine Parr and Jane Seymour, although the best known is a mordant epitaph for Wriothesley: Blagge's most important contribution to English poetry was his habit of collecting his friends' poems. The result was the famous [[Blage manuscript]], now MS D.2.7 in the library of [[Trinity College, Dublin]]. Rediscovered only in the 1960s, it widened the known oeuvre of Thomas Wyatt and his circle, although it overlaps considerably with another collection, the Devonshire manuscript. George Blagge died on 17 June 1551 at his manor of Great Stanmore. The final outbreak of the mysterious disease known as [[sweating sickness]] was raging and"
"Geoffrey Hill Sir Geoffrey William Hill, FRSL (18 June 1932 – 30 June 2016) was an English poet, professor emeritus of English literature and religion, and former co-director of the Editorial Institute, at Boston University. Hill has been considered to be among the most distinguished poets of his generation and was called the ""greatest living poet in the English language."" From 2010 to 2015 he held the position of Professor of Poetry in the University of Oxford. Following his receiving the Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism in 2009 for his ""Collected Critical Writings"", and the publication of ""Broken Hierarchies"