"Which British writer's epitaph ends, ""Home is the sailor, home from the sea. And the hunter home from the hill""?"
"Home from the Hill (film) Home from the Hill is a 1960 American Metrocolor drama film in CinemaScope directed by Vincente Minnelli and starring Robert Mitchum, Eleanor Parker, George Peppard, George Hamilton, Everett Sloane, and Luana Patten. The script was adapted from the 1958 novel of the same name by William Humphrey. The film was entered into the 1960 Cannes Film Festival. The film's title is from the last line of Robert Louis Stevenson's short poem ""Requiem"". This film was originally intended for actors Clark Gable and Bette Davis, but the roles then went to Robert Mitchum and Eleanor Parker."
"and polo. It deals with the themes of colonialism, international development, and the end of the British Empire – in particular, through his alienation from the modern world having lived all his life in a vastly different culture. The phrase 'home from the hill' is from a line of Robert Louis Stevenson's poem ""Requiem"": ""Home is the sailor, home from sea, And the hunter home from the hill"". On his return to England, Hook settled at Westbury, Wiltshire. On 12 June 1987, the night after the British General Election, he appeared on a memorable edition of ""After Dark"" on Channel"
"Fern Hill Fern Hill (1945) is a poem by Dylan Thomas, first published in the October, 1945, Horizon magazine, with its first book publication as the last poem in ""Deaths and Entrances"". The house Fernhill is just outside Llangain in Carmarthenshire. Thomas had extended stays here in the 1920s with his aunt Annie and her husband, Jim Jones, and wrote about the house in his short story, ""The Peaches"". His holidays here have been recalled in interviews with his schoolboy friends, and both the house and the Thomas family network in the area are detailed in the same book. A"
"references in William Shakespeare's writings. Whall's wife Jane was from Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada and they had two children. Whall died in 1917. W. B. Whall William Boultbee Whall (1847–1917) was a Master mariner, who compiled one of the first collections of English sea songs and shanties in 1910. He joined the Merchant Navy as a boy of 14 and learned the songs during 11 years aboard East Indiamen. In the foreword to his book he wrote that he thought the songs ""worthy of preservation"". In addition Whall wrote a number of books about navigation and practical seamanship. William Boultbee"
"the world as a speaker, author, entrepreneur and pioneer of algae as one of the most efficient sources of food and fuel for humanity. Born in Grimsby, England to a family of fishermen, Hills grew up sailing the bleak and turbulent North Sea. In 1940 he enrolled as a cadet in nautical school and joined the British Merchant Navy during World War II. At sea, Hills had several life and death experiences that formed his views on karma, divinity and destiny. On one occasion a rogue wave swept him off the deck hundreds of yards (metres) away from the vessel,"
"sake. ""The Seafarer"" is the story of a somber exile from home on the sea, from which the only hope of redemption is the joy of heaven. Other wisdom poems include ""Wulf and Eadwacer"", ""The Wife's Lament"", and ""The Husband's Message"". Alfred the Great wrote a wisdom poem over the course of his reign based loosely on the neoplatonic philosophy of Boethius called the ""Lays of Boethius"". Several Old English poems are adaptations of late classical philosophical texts. The longest is a 10th-century translation of Boethius' ""Consolation of Philosophy"" contained in the Cotton manuscript Otho A.vi. Another is ""The Phoenix"""
"– ride to hounds, or are would-be members of the hunt. Some characters reappear in different novels, such as the supercilious stud groom, the dark and wary steeple-chaser, or the fascinating sporting widow. ""Bones and I, or The Skeleton at Home"", is an anomaly in his work, as it is far from the realms of the hunting field or the historical romance. It centres instead on an urban recluse living in a small, modern villa in a London cul de sac, looking out on ""the dead wall at the back of an hospital"". His most famous lyric is also unusual"
"as a motto for ""Tafereel van de overwintering der Hollanders op Nova Zembla in de jaren 1596 en 1597"" (1820) by the Dutch poet Hendrik Tollens (1780–1856). William Falconer (poet) William Falconer (21 February 1732 – December 1769) was a Scottish epic poet concerned mainly with life at sea. He also compiled a dictionary of marine matters. Falconer was the son of a barber in Edinburgh, where he was born, became a sailor, and was thus thoroughly competent to describe the management of the storm-tossed vessel, the career and fate of which are described in his poem, ""The Shipwreck"" (1762),"
"Simon Hatley Simon Hatley (27 March 1685after 1723) was an English sailor involved in two hazardous privateering voyages to the South Pacific Ocean. On the second voyage, with his ship beset by storms south of Cape Horn, Hatley shot an albatross, an incident immortalised by Samuel Taylor Coleridge in his poem, ""The Rime of the Ancient Mariner."" Born in 1685 in Woodstock, Oxfordshire, Hatley went to sea in 1708 as part of Woodes Rogers's expedition against the Spanish. Although Rogers circumnavigated the world, Hatley was captured on the coast of present-day Ecuador and imprisoned in Lima, where he was tortured"
"Arthur Henry Neumann Arthur Henry Neumann (12 June 1850 – 29 May 1907) was an English explorer, hunter, soldier, farmer and travel writer, famous for his exploits in Equatorial East Africa. In 1898 he published ""Elephant Hunting In East Equatorial Africa"". Neumann was born in Hockliffe, Bedfordshire, a village four miles east from Leighton Buzzard, the youngest child of seven of the Reverend John Stubbs Neumann and his wife (née) Annie Mary Formby. His father was rector of a rural parish, and the young retiring Neumann would recall ‘an attempt I remember to have made to get out of the"
"a poem Taylor wrote, that became the lyrics to a song popular among Scottish settlers in the Guelph area. John Taylor (Royal Navy) John Taylor was a seaman, who served in the Royal Navy, who later helped settle Guelph, in Upper Canada. Taylor was born in Scotland. It was his service during the Mediterranean campaign of 1798 that earned him a lifetime pension. His ship, HMS Alcmene, had captured an enemy ship, carrying important despatches. When the enemy captain tried to prevent the English reading those despatches Taylor and another seaman dove into the sea after them. Both Taylor and"
"walking south from Scotland to Derbyshire. Along the route he stopped to give poetry readings, often in exchange for donations of money, food or accommodation, despite the rejection of the free life seen in his 1993 poem, the Hitcher, and has written a book about his journey, called ""Walking Home"". He has received numerous awards for his poetry, including ""The Sunday Times"" Author of the Year, a Forward Prize, a Lannan Award, and an Ivor Novello Award for his song lyrics in the Channel 4 film ""Feltham Sings"". ""Kid"" and ""CloudCuckooLand"" were short-listed for the Whitbread poetry prize. The ""Dead"
"poet (unpublished) and short story writer (unpublished) on a variety of topics. Whitbread First Novel Award 2001 - ""Something Like a House"" James Tait Black Memorial Prize 2001 - ""Something Like a House"" Encore Award Nominee 2004 - ""A House by the River"" Sid Smith (writer) Sid Smith (born c. 1949) is an award-winning English novelist poet and journalist. Smith was born in Preston, Lancashire. For seven years he worked in labouring jobs, including dustman, gardner, gravedigger and construction worker. Since then he has hitch-hiked 9,000 miles around the US, lived in Italy and Greece, acquired a pilot's licence for"
"""Reflection Nebula"". ""Happy as the Grass Was Green"" became the title of a 1973 drama film. Fern Hill Fern Hill (1945) is a poem by Dylan Thomas, first published in the October, 1945, Horizon magazine, with its first book publication as the last poem in ""Deaths and Entrances"". The house Fernhill is just outside Llangain in Carmarthenshire. Thomas had extended stays here in the 1920s with his aunt Annie and her husband, Jim Jones, and wrote about the house in his short story, ""The Peaches"". His holidays here have been recalled in interviews with his schoolboy friends, and both the"
"abruptness, and thereby lost much of the influence gained by the force of his personal character. He will be remembered chiefly for his work on Border literature and antiquities. See ""Memoir"" by his niece, Mary RL Bryce (1896). The River Tweed from its Source to the Sea (1884) John Veitch (poet) Prof John Veitch (October 24, 1829 – September 3, 1894), Scottish poet, philosopher, and historian, son of a Peninsular War veteran, was born at Peebles, and educated at the University of Edinburgh. He was assistant lecturer successively to Sir William Hamilton and Alexander Campbell Fraser (1856–60). In 1860 he"
"The story has been adapted twice as a film (in 1959 and 2000) and once as a BBC radio broadcast in 2008. The phrase ""on the beach"" is a Royal Navy term that means ""retired from the Service."" The title also refers to the T. S. Eliot poem ""The Hollow Men,"" which includes the lines: Printings of the novel, including the first 1957 edition by William Morrow and Company, NY, contain extracts from the poem on the title page, under Shute's name, including the above quotation and the concluding lines: The 2000 film ends with a quote from a Walt"
"out of here. Then in a flash, while the fog-horn did clatter, I saw just the way to settle the matter. All it would take- now, what was that word? What we needed was a whirly-bird! A ‘chopper to sky-lift us over the bluffs To avoid all the drifts, the potholes and ruts. Oh for a helicopter, Saint Nicholas, please - So we can be home for Christmas Eve! </poem> Richard Chapman (1902 – 1910) William J. Chapman (1910 – 1940) Captain J.D. Chapman (1940) Wesley Morrison (1940 – 1942) Norman Whetton (1942 – 1965) Frank Rourke (1965 – 1968)"
"Life"" (1867). He died at Winchester. William Whiting (poet) William Whiting (1 November 1825 – 3 May 1878) was an English writer and hymnist, best known for his 1860 hymn ""Eternal Father, Strong to Save"" (often called ""The Navy Hymn"", used by the Royal Navy for church services and later adopted by the US Navy). He was born in Kensington, England, and educated at Chapham and Winchester College. Because of his musical ability, he became master of Winchester College Choristers' School. While best known for ""Eternal Father, Strong to Save"", Whiting also published two poetry collections: ""Rural Thoughts"" (1851) and"
"Henry Hobhouse (author) Henry ""Tom"" Hobhouse (24 December 1924 – 5 March 2016), was an English sailor, broadcaster, journalist, farmer, author, and politician, best known for his book """", which ""altered the way we understand modern history"". Henry Hobhouse was known as ""Tom"" to distinguish him from his grandfather, a well-known Liberal politician also named Henry Hobhouse. He was born at Lamyat, Somerset in 1924 and was the second child of Arthur Hobhouse, Liberal MP for Wells and the architect of Britain’s National Park system. His uncle was the religious writer and peace activist Stephen Henry Hobhouse. He was educated"
"Ramsay in Virginia Woolf's ""To The Lighthouse"". Rudyard Kipling wrote poetry in support of the British cause in the Boer War, including the well known ""Lichtenberg"", which is about a combatant's death in a foreign land. Swinburne, Thomas Hardy, and others wrote also poems relating to the Boer War. Hardy's poems include ""Drummer Hodge"",and ""The Man He Killed"". '""Swinburne regularly donated work to the papers to rouse the spirit, from 'Transvaal', with the infamous closing line, 'Strike, England, and strike home', to 'The Turning of the Tide'."" The major novelist and poet Thomas Hardy (1840 – 1928) wrote a number"
"left £857. Solo albums Radio Ballad Anthologies Sam Larner Samuel James Larner, (1878–1965), known as Sam, was a fisherman and traditional singer from Winterton, a fishing village in Norfolk, England. His life history was the basis for Ewan McColl's song ""The Shoals of Herring"", and his songs continue to be recorded by revival singers. Fishing was an almost inevitable occupation for one of nine children of a fisherman father growing up in a village with a population of 800 people, 300 of whom were fishermen. Larner is quoted as saying ""Why, for me and my brothers that was either sea"
"Frank Sawyer (writer) Frank Sawyer MBE (1906–1980) was an English Riverkeeper, writer, and inventor of such flies as the Pheasant Tail Nymph. Sawyer also invented a number of different animal traps some of which bore his name, and the most widely used (the Imbra) is still approved for use in the UK although no longer in production. He died in 1980 on the banks of the River Avon at Netheravon. Sawyer was born at the Mill House in the village of Bulford on the banks of the River Avon in Wiltshire. Sawyer's first job as a riverkeeper was in 1925"
"west from the open sea, Of all the islands, it sees an early sunset and first a dawn; It is rugged and stony, where brave and handsome men are born, ..."""""" The Greek geographer Strabo, writing in the 1st century AD, identified Homer's Ithaca with modern Ithaca. Following earlier commentators, he interpreted the word translated above as ""low-lying"" to mean ""close to the mainland"", and the phrase translated as ""farthest out to sea, towards the sunset"" as meaning ""farthest of all towards the north."" Strabo identified Same as modern Kefalonia, and believed that Homer's Doulichion was one of the islands"
"Enoch Arden Enoch Arden is a narrative poem published in 1864 by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, during his tenure as England's poet laureate. The story on which it was based was provided to Tennyson by Thomas Woolner. The hero of the poem, fisherman turned merchant sailor Enoch Arden, leaves his wife Annie and three children to go to sea with his old captain, who offers him work after he had lost his job due to an accident; in a manner that reflects the hero's masculine view of personal toil and hardship to support his family, Enoch Arden left his family to"
"One of Gordon's poems, ""The Swimmer"", forms the libretto for the fifth movement of Edward Elgar's song cycle ""Sea Pictures"", and Elgar also set to music another of his poems, ""A Song of Autumn"". After a particularly trying year for the British Royal Family, Elizabeth II quoted from one of Gordon's more famous poems in her Christmas Message of 1992, ""Kindness in another's trouble, courage in one's own.."", but did not mention the poet's name. Dingley Dell, Gordon's property and home from 1862 to 1866, are preserved as a conservation park and as a museum. The museum houses early volumes"
"of nymphing. Frank Sawyer (writer) Frank Sawyer MBE (1906–1980) was an English Riverkeeper, writer, and inventor of such flies as the Pheasant Tail Nymph. Sawyer also invented a number of different animal traps some of which bore his name, and the most widely used (the Imbra) is still approved for use in the UK although no longer in production. He died in 1980 on the banks of the River Avon at Netheravon. Sawyer was born at the Mill House in the village of Bulford on the banks of the River Avon in Wiltshire. Sawyer's first job as a riverkeeper was"
"were, however, several limited small press editions. These included the hundred copies from the Swan Press (Chelsea) in 1930; one illustrated with woodcuts by Pamela Hughes (1918–2002) from the Golden Head Press (Cambridge, 1963) ; and two editions including other poems from the Grongar Press (Llandeilo, 1977, 2003) with woodcuts by John Petts. The poem's most devoted artistic admirer has been John Piper, who described it as “one of the best topographical poems in existence because it is so visual.” He first painted the hill in 1942 and the oil was subsequently issued as a coloured print. Later he produced"
"where he came last. Hill was born around 1943 in Suffolk, England. He was formerly a metalworker. In 2001, aged 58, he left Suffolk on a sailing trip. Media reports used the ""Captain Calamity"" epithet when Hill caused five lifeboat launches and two rescue helicopter call-outs during a failed attempt to single-handedly circumnavigate Britain in a "" dinghy"" during 2001. His vessel ""Maximum Exposure"" – a ""converted rowing boat"" ""likened to a glorified sailboard"" with a sail ""canibalized"" from a windsurfing board – was considered by many, including the Coastguard and RNLI, to be under-equipped and ""unfit"" for such a"
"December 1960 while sitting in an armchair in his home, The Grey House in Georgeham in Devon. He is buried with his wife 'Eve' Farson in the churchyard of St George's church in the village of Georgeham, near his home. His son, writer and broadcaster Daniel Farson, died in his father's former home in the village. Negley Farson James Negley Farson (May 14, 1890 – December 13, 1960), was an American author and adventurer. A renowned fisherman, Farson wrote one of the classics of fishing literature, ""Going Fishing"". The story of his life is told in his two volumes of"
"a keen collector. Egerton Castle co-authored many novels with his wife, Agnes (née Sweetman). Egerton Castle Egerton Castle M.A., F.S.A. (12 March 1858 – 16 September 1920) was a Victorian era author, antiquarian, and swordsman, and an early practitioner of reconstructed historical fencing, frequently in collaboration with his colleague Captain Alfred Hutton. Castle was the captain of the British épée and sabre teams at the 1908 Olympics. He was born in London into a wealthy family; his maternal grandfather was the publishing magnate and philanthropist Egerton Smith. He was a lieutenant in the Second West India Regiment and afterwards a"
"Hallaig Hallaig is a poem by Sorley MacLean. It was originally written in Scottish Gaelic and has been translated into both English and Lowland Scots. A recent translation (2002) was made by Seamus Heaney, an Irish Nobel Prize winner. The poem is named after a deserted township located on the south-eastern corner of the Hebridean island of Raasay, the poet's birthplace. It is a reflection on the nature of time and the historical impact of the Highland Clearances, leaving an empty landscape populated only by the ghosts of the evicted and those forced to emigrate. The poem is notable for"
"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 early 17th century England. The genre may be regarded as a sub-set of the topographical poem. The model for the country house poem is Ben Jonson's ""To Penshurst"", published in 1616, which compliments Robert Sidney, 1st Earl of Leicester, younger brother of Sir Philip Sidney on his Penshurst Place. (However, To Penshurst was preceded by five years by Emilia Lanyer’s A Description of Cookeham, one of the"
"poem was written on the beach at Yarmouth on a stormy evening, and was first published in 1818: Britannia Monument The Nelson's Monument is a commemorative column or tower built in memorial to Admiral Horatio Nelson, situated on the Denes, Great Yarmouth in the county of Norfolk, England. It was designated as a Grade I listed structure in 1953. Designed by architect William Wilkins, it was raised in the period 1817–19 from money raised by a committee of local magnates. The first custodian of the monument was former Able Seaman James Sharman, a member of the crew of the ""Victory"""