"Freshwater, Isle of Wight Freshwater is a large village and civil parish at the western end of the Isle of Wight, England. Freshwater Bay is a small cove on the south coast of the Island which also gives its name to the nearby part of Freshwater. Freshwater sits at the western end of the region known as the Back of the Wight or the West Wight which is a popular tourist area. Freshwater is close to steep chalk cliffs. It was the birthplace of physicist Robert Hooke and was the home of Poet Laureate Alfred Lord Tennyson. Freshwater is famous"
"House, at the time. The edition was illustrated by Edward Gorey. The play is named after Freshwater, Isle of Wight, where Julia Margaret Cameron lived in a somewhat bohemian atmosphere at her home, Dimbola Lodge, surrounded by a number of artists and literary figures, including George Frederick Watts and Tennyson in the 1860s. Tennyson's nearby home, Farringford was another artistic centre. The plot revolves around the attempts by the young actress Ellen Terry to escape from her marriage to the much older Watts, partly family history, partly mocking the conventions of the Victorian times that the Bloomsbury group had fought"
"Faringdon House Faringdon House is a Grade I listed 14,510 square feet house in Faringdon, Oxfordshire, England. It was built about 1770–1785 for the Poet Laureate Sir Henry James Pye. It was the country home of Lord Berners, who inherited it in 1918. He moved in to Faringdon House in 1931, along with his companion, Robert Heber-Percy, nearly 30 years his junior and known as the Mad Boy. In 1942, Heber-Percy married Jennifer Ross, the only child of Sir Geoffrey Fry, 1st Baronet, and they had a daughter, Victoria, although the ""ménage à trois"" lasted only two years before Jennifer"
"the shutter telegraph chain which connected the Admiralty in London to its naval ships in Portsmouth. Aside from its height and its wild beauty, Blackdown is best known as the site of the poet's houses, Aldworth and Foxholes. Keen to escape the summer 'trippers' who came to his Isle of Wight home, Farringford, Tennyson purchased Blackdown, and built Aldworth in 1869. The French-style Gothic house was designed by Sir James Knowles and is built of local sandstone. It stands on a ridge overlooking the Weald, with magnificent views. Lord Tennyson used Aldworth as his summer residence, taking long walks over"
"Tennyson Down Tennyson Down is a hill at the west end of the Isle of Wight just south of Totland. Tennyson Down is a grassy, whale-backed ridge of chalk which rises to 482 ft/147m above sea level. Tennyson Down is named after the poet Lord Tennyson who lived at nearby Farringford House for nearly 40 years. The poet used to walk on the down almost every day, saying that the air was worth 'sixpence a pint'. It is part of the chalk ridge that forms the backbone of the Isle of Wight, this ridge extends to the west for where"
"at his house in Faringdon in vibrant colours and at one point entertaining Penelope Betjeman's horse Moti to tea. There were paper flowers in the garden and the interior of the house was adorned with joke books and joke notices, such as ""Mangling Done Here"". As visitor Patrick Leigh Fermor recalled: Other visitors to Faringdon included Igor Stravinsky, Salvador Dalí, H. G. Wells, and Tom Driberg. His Rolls-Royce automobile contained a small clavichord keyboard which could be stored beneath the front seat. Near his house he had a 100-foot viewing tower, Faringdon Folly, constructed as a birthday present in 1935"
"for several years during World War I, as tenant of Lollingdon Farm, at the foot of the Berkshire Downs. He was Poet Laureate from 1936 to his death in 1967 and is most famous for a series of poems and sonnets entitled ""Lollingdon Downs"" and his poem ""Sea-Fever"", which has been set to music by John Ireland. The grave of novelist Dame Agatha Christie is in the churchyard of St Mary's. She lived with her second husband, archaeologist Sir Max Mallowan, at Winterbrook House, in the north of the parish, from about 1934 and died there in 1976. She and"
"and their daughter moved to her parents home, Oare House in Wiltshire. Lord Berners died in 1950, and Heber-Percy inherited the house. It now belongs to the writer Sofka Zinovieff, the granddaughter of Heber-Percy. , it is for sale at a price of £11.5 million. Faringdon House Faringdon House is a Grade I listed 14,510 square feet house in Faringdon, Oxfordshire, England. It was built about 1770–1785 for the Poet Laureate Sir Henry James Pye. It was the country home of Lord Berners, who inherited it in 1918. He moved in to Faringdon House in 1931, along with his companion,"
"home near Dublin. In the 1950s, Lady Powerscourt won the Poetry Society Book Choice. The Sheila Wingfield Papers are being kept in the National Library of Ireland and Houghton Library, Harvard University. Sheila Wingfield Sheila Wingfield (née Sheila Claude Beddington; Viscountess Powerscourt; 23 May 1906 – 8 January 1992) was an Irish poet. Lady Powerscourt was born in Hampshire and attended the Roedean School. She attended art school in Paris. She was the daughter of Major Claude Beddington and Frances Ethel (née Homan-Mulock). Ethel was the daughter of a Protestant family from Co. Offaly, whose homes included the Bellair and"
"book, would have been a stimulus to the memory of Arundel Gardens as a ""dead road"". In 2008 a suitcase containing a bundle of papers were discovered in a Welsh barn left there by Harry sometime before his death. Amongst the papers were two handwritten and unfinished poems, (City I & City II.) These were deciphered by 22 poets who then wrote new poems inspired by these fragments. The results were curated by Dave Tomlin and published as 'Fragments of a Lost Voice'. Harry Fainlight Harry Fainlight (1935–1982) was a British/American poet associated with the Beats movement. He was the"
"Fitz Aldelin, who is reputed to have built the original Manor House. Sherfield was held in the reign of Edward I (1272-1307) by Thomas de Warblington, High Sheriff of Hampshire, tenant-in-chief from the king in serjeanty by the services providing laundresses, of dismembering malefactors and measuring the gallons and bushels in the royal household. The manor passed by marriage from the Warblingtons to the Puttenham family. The reputed 1589 author of ""The Arte of English Poesie"", George Puttenham, grew up at Sherfield Court but, as an adult, disputed its ownership with his niece. The Manor was eventually purchased by the"
"West; Roscoe Arbuckle, and Marlène Dietrich on the arm of Erich Maria Remarque. The artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec was a frequent visitor; he painted 16 tableaux for the house, now held in private collections. The poet Guy de Maupassant built a copy of the Moorish room in his mansion at the sea, so that he wouldn't have to miss it during his vacations. ""Bertie"", Prince of Wales, who would later become King Edward VII of the United Kingdom, often visited during the 1880s and 1890s. One room carried his coat of arms over the bed and a large copper bath-tub"
"poet, was born and lived in Berkhamsted. He was later institutionalised in an asylum in St Albans. Charles Dickens (1812–1870) was often in Hertfordshire (not least to visit his friend Edward Bulwer Lytton, who is mentioned below), and significant elements of his novels are set there. Sir Richard Fanshawe (1608–1666) was born at Ware Park and his memorial tablet is in Ware. E. M. Forster (1879-?) lived at Rook's Nest House between Stevenage and Weston. William Godwin (1756–1836), an anarchist philosopher, was a Chapel Minister in Ware; his feminist wife Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–1797), author of A Vindication of the Rights"
"while the novelist Hammond Innes (1913–98) was born in Horsham. In addition there are writers, who while they were not born in Sussex had a strong connection. This includes William Blake (1757–1827), who moved to Felpham in 1800 on the advice of Sussex poet William Hayley (1745-1820). Tried and cleared of the crime of sedition at the county court of Quarter Sessions in 1804, Blake returned to London later that year. One of Victorian England's most famous poets Alfred Tennyson (1809–92) spent his summers, away from the holiday crowds of the Isle of Wight, at Aldworth House, Blackdown, which he"
"Rowland Vaughan (poet) Rowland Vaughan (c.1590 – 18 September 1667) was a Welsh poet, translator and jurist. Vaughan was the owner of Caer Gai, more recently recognized as a Roman fort, in the parish of Llanuwchlyn, Merioneth, four miles to the west of Bala.His paternal family derived from the Vaughans of Llwydiarth and his mother Ellen, came from the Nanney or Nannau estate in the same county. Vaughan's wife was from Llanuwchlyn. Vaughan studied in Oxford where his two sons, John and Edward, were to follow him. He served as sheriff for Merioneth for 1643. Vaughan was a staunch royalist"
"his 1814 visit to the islands. The name ""Jarlshof"" meaning ""Earl's Mansion"" is a coinage of his. Robert Cowie, a doctor born in Lerwick published the 1874 work Hugh MacDiarmid, the Scots poet and writer lived in Whalsay from the mid-1930s through 1942, and wrote many poems there, including a number that directly address or reflect the Shetland environment such as ""On A Raised Beach"", which was inspired by a visit to West Linga. The 1975 novel ""North Star"" by Hammond Innes is largely set in Shetland and Raman Mundair's 2007 book of poetry ""A Choreographer's Cartography"" offers a British"
"John Greenleaf Whittier Homestead The John Greenleaf Whittier Homestead is the birthplace and home of American Quaker poet and abolitionist John Greenleaf Whittier. It currently serves as a museum. The homestead is located at 305 Whittier Road in Haverhill, Massachusetts. The home was built in 1688 by Thomas Whittier, pioneer and great-great-grandfather of John Greenleaf Whittier. Thomas Whittier chose the site (originally 148 acres) for its proximity to Fernside Brook, which could both provide water and turn the wheel of a gristmill. The future poet John Greenleaf Whittier was born in December 1807 in the southwest parlor of the farm"
"joined with the nearest of the first schools in Lancing. North Lancing Primary School has always been a first and middle school. Lancing was visited by Oscar Wilde in the 1890s when he stayed at nearby Worthing. The working title for his masterpiece ""The Importance of Being Earnest"" was ""Lady Lancing"". Wilde's friend and lover, the poet Lord Alfred Douglas lived in nearby Brighton and died while staying at Monk's Farmhouse mentioned above. Lancing was also visited by another poet, Algernon Charles Swinburne, who stayed at The Terrace in the 1880s. Teams in the village cover all ages of adult"
"(1651) by William Davenant. The poem was influenced by works of Mildmay Fane, 2nd Earl of Westmorland and Constantijn Huyghens; it also draws on Antoine Girard de Saint-Amant, a poet whom Fairfax had translated. There are numerous interpretations, including those of Abraham who sees the poem as a memory map (to regain Paradise), and Stocker, who sees it as an ""epic in miniature"" and reads closely the later sections for apocalyptic language relating to England as elect nation. Upon Appleton House Upon Appleton House is a poem written by Andrew Marvell for Thomas Fairfax, 3rd Lord Fairfax of Cameron. It"
"Strathnairn, GCB, GCSI, son of George Henry Rose also spent time living at the family home. Sandhills is now a holiday park owned by Park Holidays UK with static caravans in the grounds but the house still remains although it has been converted to flats. In the 1940s and 1950s Sandhills was used as a school annexed to Somerford Infants School and Mudeford School. Gundimore is a house near Avon Beach built in 1796 for the poet William Rose. Visitors to the house included fellow poets Coleridge and Southey. Sir Walter Scott stayed there while writing his epic poem Marmion."
"first to Nancy Tollet then to Maire Ní Mhóráin. With Maire he had two children, Mary and Richard Barrett. Coláiste Riocard Bairéad is named after him. The Irish summer college belongs to Gael Linn Riocard Bairéad Riocard Bairéad (Anglicised as ""Richard Barrett"") (b. 1740 – d. 1819 according to his grave), was a poet and United Irishman. Some sources say that he was born in 1739 or 1740 and died either in 1818 or on December 8 or 18th, 1819. Bairéad worked as a teacher and small farmer. Known in his lifetime as the ""Poet of Erris"", Bairéad was notable"
"illness he recovered, only, however, to suffer from other and more painful diseases. He still hoped to recover, but dropsy succeeded to confirmed jaundice, and he died on 22 April 1839. He was buried at Cheltenham, his epitaph being written by his friend Theodore Hook. His best-known songs include ""Old House at Home"", ""I'd be a Butterfly"", ""Oh, no, we never mention him"", ""She wore a Wreath of Roses"", ""The Mistletoe Bough"", and ""Long, Long Ago"". Thomas Haynes Bayly Thomas Haynes Bayly (13 October 1797 – 22 April 1839) was an English poet, songwriter, dramatist, and miscellaneous writer. He was"
"Laetitia Pilkington Laetitia Pilkington (born Laetitia van Lewen; ""c."" 1709 – 29 July 1750) was a celebrated Anglo-Irish poet. Her ""Memoirs"" are the source of much of what is known of the personalities and habits of Jonathan Swift and others. Laetitia was born of two distinguished families. Her father was a physician and obstetrician, eventually the president of the College of Physicians for Ireland, and her mother was the niece of Sir John Meade. She was born either in Cork, where her parents lived at their marriage, or Dublin, where they moved by 1711. She married Matthew Pilkington in 1725,"
"Nannau, Wales Nannau is a mansion and estate in the parish of Llanfachreth, Meirionnydd. It is named for the family who lived there. The Nannau family is descended from the princes of Powys through the 13th century prince Ynyr Hen. The family were patrons of famous poets of the period, and the mansion is mentioned in several poems from the 14th century onwards. The poet Llywelyn Goch ap Meurig Hen was a part of the family. Siôn Dafydd Las (died 1694), of the Nannau bard family, is considered to be one of the last of the traditional family poets in"
"Dylan Thomas Boathouse The Boathouse is a house in Laugharne, Wales, in which the poet Dylan Thomas lived with his family between 1949 and 1953, the last four years of his life. It was at this house that he wrote many major pieces. It has often been suggested that he wrote ""Under Milk Wood"" here but more recent research suggests that fewer than 300 lines of the play were written in Laugharne. The house is set in a cliff overlooking the Tâf Estuary. There are no records of the house being in existence prior to 1834, when it was leased"
"House, is also open to the public. The homestead is the setting for Whittier's best-known narrative poem ""Snow-Bound"", published in 1866 and an instant bestseller. Whittier also set many of his other poems in the Haverhill area, including ""Fernside Brook"", ""The Barefoot Boy"", and ""The Sycamores"". The popularity of ""Snow-Bound"" also made the home popular; revived interest in nostalgic kitchens spurred by the poem inspired fans to try to emulate Whittier's kitchen. The poet noted in 1881 that a Cleveland, Ohio resident asked for exact measurements of his Haverhill kitchen in order to recreate Whittier's childhood hearth. ""I certainly never"
"Other residents include the poet and musician Martin Newell, James Dodds painter, printmaker and publisher under the imprint of Jardine Press who has been described as ""boatbuilding’s artist laureate"",and the Singer Polly Scattergood who was born in Wivenhoe before moving to London. Wivenhoe was once a favourite watering-hole of the painter Francis Bacon, who owned a house on Queens Road (no. 68) which he purchsed for £6,500 so he could spend time out of London visiting his friends, the artists Dickie Chopping (1917–2008) and Denis Wirth-Miller (1915–2011). The house remained as it was for many years after his death in"
"Landguard Manor Landguard Manor (or Languard) is a manor house in Shanklin on the Isle of Wight, England. Mentioned in the Domesday Book, over the centuries it was home to numerous notable gentlemen. It is a Grade II listed building. One of the finest known portraits by Sir Thomas Lawrence, English portrait painter and president of the Royal Academy, is located in its drawing room. The house is located off Landguard Manor Road, about north of the town centre. Nearby is Landguard Camping Park, Lake Common, and well as the Shanklin Cemetery which contains the HMS ""Eurydice"" memorial honouring the"
"century author of ""The Compleat Angler"", Izaak Walton, whose cottage at nearby Shallowford is now an angling museum, and the 18th century playwright Richard Brinsley Sheridan was once the local MP. Also, the 1853 Lord Mayor of London, Thomas Sidney, was born in the town. In the early 1900s, the village of Great Haywood near Stafford was home to the wife of famous ""The Lord of the Rings"" author J. R. R. Tolkien. He stayed with his wife, Edith, in her cottage in the village during the winter of 1916, and the surrounding areas were said to be an inspiration"
"Wright, and it was declared a landmark in 1990. The LaTourette House, built as a farmhouse in 1836, now serves as the clubhouse for LaTourette Golf Course, and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. Some notable residents include Edward Arlington Robinson (poet), best known for his poem ""Richard Corey"" (a staple in American high school and college literature classes). During his stay at LaTourette, Edward Arlington Robinson corresponded with Kermit Roosevelt, son of President Theodore Roosevelt. In his letters to Kermit Roosevelt, Robinson lauded the President for helping the poet obtain a job at the"
"stream running through the Parsonage House of his childhood, in Basingstoke. The Loddon rises west of Basingstoke and is fed by springs in the town; it joins the Kennet at Reading. Thomas Warton Thomas Warton (9 January 1728 – 21 May 1790) was an English literary historian, critic, and poet. From 1785 to 1790 he was the Poet Laureate of England. He is sometimes called ""Thomas Warton the younger"" to distinguish him from his father ""Thomas Warton the elder"". His most famous poem remains ""The Pleasures of Melancholy"", a representative work of the Graveyard poets. Warton was born in Basingstoke,"
"tutor between November 1650 and the end of 1652. The poem centres on Lord Fairfax's daughter Maria. Thomas Carew also wrote two country house poems in the mould of ""To Penshurst"": ""To Saxham"" and ""To My Friend G. N., from Wrest"". Even closer to the Jonsonian model is a poem by the oldest of the so-called ""Sons of Ben"", Robert Herrick, ""A Panegyric to Sir Lewis Pemberton"". Country house poem A country house poem is a poem in which the author compliments a wealthy patron or a friend through a description of his country house. Such poems were popular in"
"the House of Lords through a public competition. His 1845 book ‘A treatise of Stained Glass’ became a standard work. He started writing poetry at a young age and through the popular ‘Gaberlunzie’s wallet’ became an established writer. He wrote poetry books and also a collection of his songs. He died from a ""congestion of the lungs"" in Warrender Lodge, Meadows, Edinburgh. James Ballantine James Ballantine (11 June 1806 – 18 December 1877) was a Scottish artist and author. Born West Port, Edinburgh. His father was a brewer who died when he was 10. He received little education and what"