Which poet wrote novels using the pseudonym Nicholas Blake?
"Martin Blake Rev. Martin Blake (1593-1673) was vicar of Barnstaple in Devon, 1628-56; 1660-73, and suffered much for his adherence to the Royalist cause during the Civil War, as related in John Walker's ""Sufferings of the Clergy"" (1714). According to Chanter (1882) ""The eventful history of the Rev. Martin Blake has been often written in public history and local annals"". This ""learned and noted man"" was born on 20 September 1593 in Plymouth, Devon, the second son of Nicholas Blake (1552-1645/6), merchant and Mayor of Plymouth in 1625, by his first wife Joan Goddard (d.1619) of Kingsbridge. He was educated"
"Philosophy and Symbols"" from 1924 was later followed by ""A Blake Dictionary"" (1965), the work for which he is perhaps best known. Their encyclopedic scope expanded Blake studies into the examination of the mystical and occult elements of Blake's work. His later academic career was at Brown University, where he had positions from 1927. His other writings include a biography of Amy Lowell, and the long poem ""The Moulton Tragedy, a heroic poem with lyrics"" (1971). He also published poetry under the pseudonym Samuel Nomad. S. Foster Damon Samuel Foster Damon (February 12, 1893 – December 25, 1971) was an"
"William Blake William Blake (28 November 1757 – 12 August 1827) was an English poet, painter, and printmaker. Largely unrecognised during his lifetime, Blake is now considered a seminal figure in the history of the poetry and visual arts of the Romantic Age. What he called his prophetic works were said by 20th-century critic Northrop Frye to form ""what is in proportion to its merits the least read body of poetry in the English language"". His visual artistry led 21st-century critic Jonathan Jones to proclaim him ""far and away the greatest artist Britain has ever produced"". In 2002, Blake was"
"time, Blake was generally unrecognised during his lifetime, but is now considered a seminal figure in the history of both the poetry and visual arts of the Romantic Age. Among his most important works are ""Songs of Innocence"" (1789) and ""Songs of Experience"" (1794) ""and profound and difficult 'prophecies' "" such as ""Visions of the Daughters of Albion"" (1793), ""The First Book of Urizen"" (1794), and ""Jerusalem: the Emanation of the Giant Albion"" (1804–?20). After Blake, among the earliest Romantics were the Lake Poets, a small group of friends, including William Wordsworth (1770–1850), Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834), Robert Southey (1774–1843)"
"are fantasy novels following the adventures of Hob, a boy just entering into manhood, Maeve, a mystical Irish queen, and an unlikely band of warriors traveling in thirteenth century England. Nicholas was born October 3, 1942 in Brooklyn, New York. He graduated from Manhattan College in Riverdale, Bronx in 1960. Douglas Nicholas lived in New York's Hudson Valley with his wife, Theresa (Adinolfi). His obituary stated he had lived in Rosendale, New York since 1998. Douglas Nicholas Douglas Nicholas (October 3, 1942 - February 24, 2016) was an American poet whose work appeared in publications such as ""Atlanta Review"", ""Southern"
"is now considered a seminal figure in the history of both the poetry and visual arts of the Romantic Age. Among his most important works are ""Songs of Innocence"" (1789) and ""Songs of Experience"" (1794) ""and profound and difficult 'prophecies' "", such as ""Jerusalem: the Emanation of the Giant Albion"" (1804–c.1820). After Blake, among the earliest Romantics were the Lake Poets, including William Wordsworth (1770–1850), Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834), Robert Southey (1774–1843) and journalist Thomas de Quincey (1785–1859). However, at the time Walter Scott (1771–1832) was the most famous poet. The early Romantic Poets brought a new emotionalism and introspection,"
"Romantic poets use apocalyptic imagery, but Blake's interpretation has a strong moral foundation. Like Blake's view of the American Revolution, in ""America"", or the views expressed in ""Visions of the Daughters of Albion"", the politics of the time are incorporated into a greater myth system. The French Revolution (poem) The French Revolution is a poem written by William Blake in 1791. It was intended to be seven books in length, but only one book survives. In that book, Blake describes the problems of the French monarchy and seeks the destruction of the Bastille in the name of Freedom. Blake felt"
"Christianity is used by many radicals. The Book of Ahania The Book of Ahania is one of the English poet William Blake's prophetic books. It was published in 1795, illustrated by Blake's own plates. The poem of the book consists of six chapters. The content concerns Fuzon, a son of Urizen, a ""Zoa"" or major aspect in Blake's mythology. Ahania of the title is Urizen's female counterpart. During autumn 1790, Blake moved to Lambeth, Surrey. He had a studio at the new house that he used while writing his what were later called his ""Lambeth Books"", which included ""The Book"
"Lewis Blake Lewis Blake (born June 1946) is a British poet and artist. He is a member of the Cambridge School of poetry, and, to a certain extent, the British Poetry Revival. Blake was born in Reydon, near Southwold in Suffolk in June 1946. He was educated at City College Norwich before going to read Philosophy and English Literature at the University of Bristol. For some time he worked as a newspaper journalist as a writer of obituaries and a reviewer of literary texts. As well as working as a mainstream journalist he has also written reviews for the academic"
"they are an artistic production rather than an authentic representation of unconscious processes."" Similarly, although less popularly, Diana Hume George claimed that Blake can be seen as a precursor to the ideas of Sigmund Freud. Blake had an enormous influence on the beat poets of the 1950s and the counterculture of the 1960s, frequently being cited by such seminal figures as beat poet Allen Ginsberg, songwriters Bob Dylan, Jim Morrison, Van Morrison, and English writer Aldous Huxley. Much of the central conceit of Philip Pullman's fantasy trilogy ""His Dark Materials"" is rooted in the world of Blake's ""The Marriage of"
"O.S.A., John's brother. On 31 January 1889 John Locke died at the early age of 42 years. John Locke was a prolific writer of short stories as well as a number of full-length novels. After joining the staff of the ""Celtic Monthly"" Locke wrote what is considered his finest full-length novel, ""The Shamrock and Palmetto"". He followed this with an historical novel ""Ulick Grace: A Tale of the Tithes"". However, he is today best remembered for one of his poems, ""Dawn on the Irish Coast""[2] also known as the ""Emigrants Anthem"". The poem was set to music in 1896 by"
"Thomas Evan Nicholas (Niclas y Glais) Thomas Evan Nicholas (6 October 1879 – 19 April 1971), who used the bardic name ""Niclas y Glais"" (), was a Welsh language poet, preacher, radical, and champion of the disadvantaged of society. Nicholas was born at 'Blaunwaun Felen' in Llanfyrnach parish, Pembrokeshire, Wales, the fifth child of David (a small farmer and stonemason) and Elizabeth Nicholas. Before he was one year old, the family moved to 'Y Llety', Pentregalar, a 57 acre smallholding on the slopes of Foel Dyrch in the Preseli Hills, Pembrokeshire, where Nicholas was brought up. ""Times were hard. There"
"(1794), ""The Book of Ahania"" (1795), ""The Book of Los"" (1795), ""The Song of Los"" (1795), ""Vala, or The Four Zoas"" (1796–1803), ""Milton a Poem"" (1804–1810), and ""Jerusalem The Emanation of the Giant Albion"" (1804–1820). Tiriel is similar to Urizen insofar as ""he too revolted, set himself up as a tyrant, became a hypocrite, ruined his children by his curse, and finally collapsed."" Other aspects of Blake's mythology also begin to emerge during the poem. For example, Damon argues that the death of the four unnamed daughters and the corruption of the fifth is Blake's first presentation of the death"
"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"
"Heaven and Hell"". Canadian music composer Kathleen Yearwood is one of many contemporary musicians that have set Blake's poems to music. After World War II, Blake's role in popular culture came to the fore in a variety of areas such as popular music, film, and the graphic novel, leading Edward Larrissy to assert that ""Blake is the Romantic writer who has exerted the most powerful influence on the twentieth century."" Major recent exhibitions focusing on William Blake include: ""The works with"" * ""constitute the prophetic books."" Profiles Archives Digital editions and research William Blake William Blake (28 November 1757 –"
"Christopher Nicole Christopher Robin Nicole (born ) is a prolific British writer of over 200 novels and non-fiction books since 1957. He has written as Christopher Nicole and also under several pseudonyms including Peter Grange, Andrew York, Robin Cade, Mark Logan, Christina Nicholson, Alison York, Leslie Arlen, Robin Nicholson, C.R. Nicholson, Daniel Adams, Simon McKay, Caroline Gray and Alan Savage. He also wrote under the pen name Max Marlow when co-authoring with his wife, fellow author Diana Bachmann. Christopher Robin Nicole was born on 7 December 1930 in Georgetown, in British Guiana (now Guyana), where he was raised. He is"
"Christopher Nicole Christopher Robin Nicole (born ) is a prolific British writer of over 200 novels and non-fiction books since 1957. He has written as Christopher Nicole and also under several pseudonyms including Peter Grange, Andrew York, Robin Cade, Mark Logan, Christina Nicholson, Alison York, Leslie Arlen, Robin Nicholson, C.R. Nicholson, Daniel Adams, Simon McKay, Caroline Gray and Alan Savage. He also wrote under the pen name Max Marlow when co-authoring with his wife, fellow author Diana Bachmann. Christopher Robin Nicole was born on 7 December 1930 in Georgetown, in British Guiana (now Guyana), where he was raised. He is"
"Wrath""), and Henry Green (""Living""). Similarly, though some of poet William Blake's (1757–1827) works are early examples of working-class literature, including the two ""The Chimney Sweeper"" poems, published in ""Songs of Innocence"" in 1789 and ""Songs of Experience"" in 1794, which deal with the subject of child labour, Blake, whose father was a tradesman, was not a proletarian writer. The proletariat are members of the working class. The proletarian novel is a subgenre of the novel, written by workers mainly for other workers. It overlaps and sometimes is synonymous with the working-class novel, socialist novel, social problem novel (also problem"
"the Blake Prize to Charles Bannon in 1954 for his ""Judas Iscariot"" was one of the most controversial in its history; this opened controversy over what constituted religious art and over ""abstract expressionism"" which threatened to overwhelm the exhibition. In 2008 the Blake Society established the Blake Poetry Prize to link art and literature and to give Australian poets new possibilities to explore the nature of spirituality in the 21st century. The Blake Poetry Prize is presented in association with the New South Wales Writers' Centre. The prize was administered by the Blake Society, in 2016 the Casula Powerhouse arts"
"and ""The Divine Image"" from ""Songs of Innocence"" (1789), and ""The Tyger"" from ""Songs of Innocence and of Experience"" (1794). Tiriel (poem) Tiriel is a narrative poem by William Blake, written ""c.""1789. Considered the first of his prophetic books, it is also the first poem in which Blake used free septenaries, which he would go on to use in much of his later verse. ""Tiriel"" was unpublished during Blake's lifetime and remained so until 1874, when it appeared in William Michael Rossetti's ""Poetical Works of William Blake"". Although Blake did not engrave the poem, he did make twelve sepia drawings"
"contemporaries for his idiosyncratic views, Blake is held in high regard by later critics for his expressiveness and creativity, and for the philosophical and mystical undercurrents within his work. Among his most important works are ""Songs of Innocence"" (1789) and ""Songs of Experience"" (1794) ""and profound and difficult 'prophecies' "" such as ""Visions of the Daughters of Albion"" (1793), ""The First Book of Urizen"" (1794), ""Milton"" (1804–?11), and ""Jerusalem: the Emanation of the Giant Albion"" (1804–?20). After Blake, among the earliest Romantics were the Lake Poets, a small group of friends, including William Wordsworth (1770–1850), Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834), Robert"
"a biennial event. Liverpool City Library and Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre will maintain the guiding principles of The Blake Poetry Prize in continuing to engage contemporary poets, both national and international, in conversations concerning faith, spirituality, religion, hope, humanity, social justice, belief and non-belief. The Blake Poetry Prize is an aesthetic means of exploring the wider experience of spirituality with the visionary imagining of contemporary poets. The Blake Prize takes its name from William Blake, a poet and artist of undoubted genius, who integrated religious and artistic content in his work. The Blake Poetry Prize challenges contemporary poets of disparate"
"The Book of Ahania The Book of Ahania is one of the English poet William Blake's prophetic books. It was published in 1795, illustrated by Blake's own plates. The poem of the book consists of six chapters. The content concerns Fuzon, a son of Urizen, a ""Zoa"" or major aspect in Blake's mythology. Ahania of the title is Urizen's female counterpart. During autumn 1790, Blake moved to Lambeth, Surrey. He had a studio at the new house that he used while writing his what were later called his ""Lambeth Books"", which included ""The Book of Ahania"" in 1795. Like the"
"of universal humanity: ""As all men are alike (tho' infinitely various)"". He retained an active interest in social and political events for all his life, but was often forced to resort to cloaking social idealism and political statements in Protestant mystical allegory. Even though the poem was written during the Napoleonic Wars, Blake was an outspoken supporter of the French Revolution, and Napoleon claimed to be continuing this revolution. The poem expressed his desire for radical change without overt sedition. (In 1803 Blake was charged at Chichester with high treason for having ""uttered seditious and treasonable expressions"", but was acquitted.)"
"which are here somewhat abbreviated, include: Of his twenty-two prose tracts may be mentioned ""Wit's Trenchmour"" (1597), ""The Wil of Wit"" (1599), ""A Poste with a Packet of Mad Letters"" (1602–6). Sir Philip Sidney's ""Ourania by N. B."" (1606), ""A Mad World, my Masters, Adventures of Two Excellent Princes, Grimello's Fortunes"" (1603), ""Strange News out of Divers Countries"" (1622), etc.; ""Mary Magdalen's Lamentations"" (1604), and ""The Passion of a Discontented Mind"" (1601), are sometimes, but erroneously, ascribed to Breton. Nicholas Breton Nicholas Breton (also Britton or Brittaine) (1545–1626), English poet and novelist, belonged to an old family settled at Layer"
"Life of William Blake The Life of William Blake, “Pictor Ignotus.” With selections from his poems and other writings is a two-volume work on the English painter and poet William Blake, first published in 1863. The first volume is a biography and the second a compilation of Blake's poetry, prose, artwork and illustrated manuscript. The book was largely written by Alexander Gilchrist, who had spent many years compiling the material and interviewing Blake's surviving friends. However, Gilchrist had left it incomplete at his sudden death from scarlet fever in 1861. The work was published two years later, having been completed"
"Michael Blake (author) Michael Lennox Blake (July 5, 1945 – May 2, 2015) was an American author, best known for the film adaptation of his novel ""Dances with Wolves"", for which he won an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. Early in his life, Blake's family lived in Texas, before moving to Southern California, where they moved frequently. He began writing when he was stationed at Walker Air Force Base, when he wrote for the base newspaper. He studied journalism at the University of New Mexico, and later studied at a film school, in Berkeley, California. He also attended Eastern"
"has been analysed as Blake's work occasionally and in Britain ""many schools have been teaching the poem as an example of Blake's work."" The mistake was discovered by Thomas Pitchford, a secondary school librarian in Hertfordshire, who ""thought the style bore little relation to the poet's other work"" and pursued the matter. A Visit to William Blake's Inn A Visit to William Blake's Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers is a children's picture book written by Nancy Willard and illustrated by Alice and Martin Provensen, published by Harcourt Brace in 1981. The next year Willard won the annual Newbery"
"(1791). The physical landscape is prominent in the poetry of this period—the Romantics, and especially Wordsworth, are often described as 'nature poets'. However, these 'nature poems' have wider concerns in that they are often meditations on ""an emotional problem or personal crisis"". The poet, painter, and printmaker William Blake (1757–1827) was an early writer of this kind. Largely disconnected from the major streams of the literature of the time, Blake was generally unrecognised during his lifetime, but is now considered a seminal figure in the history of both the poetry and visual arts of the Romantic Age. Considered mad by"
"30 years. There he composed his late visionary sequence ""A Monastery of Light"", described by William Oxley as ""a pleasurable antidote to a reductive secular world"". He was married three times, one of the marriages was to poet Hilary Davies. He has three daughters and one son. Sebastian Barker Sebastian Smart Barker FRSL (16 April 1945 – 31 January 2014) was a British poet notable for a visionary manner that has been compared to William Blake in its use of the long ecstatic line and its ""ability to write lyric poetry which used simple words to encapsulate profound meanings"". His"
"again in Jacksonville and also at ""The Joint"", the Florida State Penintiary at Raiford, Florida, spending 13 of the next 20 years in prison. He died on February 20, 1979, in Arlington, Virginia. James Blake (pianist) James Blake (1922 - February 20, 1979) was a jazz musician and petty thief who became a literary sensation in the 1950s when he published his letters in the Paris Review. James Blake was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, and moved with the family to the United States in 1929, at age 7. He grew up in Chicago, Illinois and studied to be a concert"
"Nicholas Fisk David Higginbottom (14 October 1923 – 10 May 2016), pen name Nicholas Fisk, was a British writer of science fiction books, mainly for children. His works include ""Grinny"", ""You Remember Me"", ""Space Hostages"", and ""Trillions"". He also wrote the ""Starstormers"" series of novels. Fisk died in May 2016 at the age of 92. Fisk was born in London. His father, William, author of ""Frightfulness in Modern Art"" (1928), was an artist and art teacher. His mother was the sister of the Irish actor Micheál Mac Liammóir. He was educated at Ardingly College, West Sussex. A group of children"
"To Tirzah ""To Tirzah"" is a poem by William Blake that was published in his collection ""Songs of Innocence and of Experience"". It is often described as the most difficult of the poems because it refers to an oblique character called ""Tirzah"", whose identity is not directly stated. It is a Hebrew name that appears in the Torah, meaning ""she is my delight"". According to Northrop Frye, Blake identified the name Tirzah with worldliness, because the name appears in the Bible to refer to both a rebellious town and to one of the Daughters of Zelophehad. The latter story was"