Which English poet was drowned in a boating accident off Leghorn, Italy in 1822?
"Islands in the gulf include Palmaria, Tino and Tinetto. The poet and dramatist Percy Bysshe Shelley drowned in the gulf in 1822. Gulf of La Spezia The Gulf of La Spezia (Italian: ""Golfo della Spezia"" or ""Golfo dei poeti"") is a body of water on the north-western coast of Italy and part of the northern Tyrrhenian Sea, specifically of Ligurian Sea. It measures some 4.5 (length) by 3-3.5 (width) kilometers. The gulf is named for the Italian city of La Spezia, located at its middle point, which is also the main military and cargo port in the gulf, including several"
"to Protestants or British people. The earliest known burial is that of a University of Oxford student named Langton in 1738. The English poets John Keats and Percy Bysshe Shelley are buried there. Keats died in Rome of tuberculosis at the age of 25, and is buried in the cemetery. His epitaph, which does not mention him by name, is by his friends Joseph Severn and Charles Armitage Brown, and reads: Shelley, who did not know how to swim, drowned in 1822 while sailing in his yacht off the Italian Riviera. When his body washed up upon the shore, a"
"Edward that he did not want Jane to see the poem. Shelley also used Edward as a stand-in for himself, having Edward read poems to Jane that Shelley had filled with ambiguous pronouns and innuendos. During this time, Percy Shelley concealed many of his interactions with Jane from his wife Mary. Jane later passed on the poems that Shelley had given her to Thomas Medwin and Edward John Trelawny; Trelawny later published them. In July 1822, Edward Williams and Percy Shelley drowned when their boat sank during a storm while returning to Lerici from Pisa. Shortly before their deaths, Jane"
"lived some five kilometers north in an isolated old boat house called Casa Magni, and anchored their sailing boat in Lerici. Their closest neighbours were the villagers of the tiny hamlet of San Terenzo. Percy Bysshe Shelley drowned on 8 July 1822 in the Bay of Spezia, returning to Lerici from a journey to Livorno and Pisa. His corpse eventually washed up on the beach at Viareggio, located approximately halfway between Livorno and Lerici. The popularity of Lerici with the Shelleys and with Lord Byron earned the Golfo di Lerici its title of the Golfo dei Poeti, the Poets' Bay."
"Anna Seward Anna Seward (12 December 174225 March 1809) was a long-eighteenth-century English Romantic poet, often called the Swan of Lichfield. Seward was the eldest of two surviving daughters of Thomas Seward (1708–1790), prebendary of Lichfield and Salisbury, and author, and his wife Elizabeth. Elizabeth Seward later had three further children (John, Jane and Elizabeth) who all died in infancy, and two stillbirths. Anna Seward mourned their loss in her poem ""Eyam"" (1788). Born in 1742 at Eyam, a small mining village in the Peak District of Derbyshire where her father was the rector, she and her sister Sarah, some"
"Whilst Mary Shelley was struggling to overcome the effects of another miscarriage, Shelley developed what one biographer has termed an ""escapist crush"" on Jane Williams, addressing many of his poems to her. On 1 July 1822, Williams and Shelley, along with a friend, Captain Daniel Roberts (Royal Navy officer), and Charles Vivian, a young Cornish boatman, sailed Shelley's boat, Don Juan, to Leghorn. Shelley, Williams and Vivian set sail back on 8 July, but the boat sank in a squall, and they were drowned. Their bodies washed ashore, and Williams was recognized by Trelawny by a boot and a scarf."
"and was to have entered the church. His career, however, was cut short by the tragedy which inspired Milton's verse. In 1637 he set out for Ireland to visit his family, but the ship in which he was sailing struck on a rock near the Welsh coast, and King was drowned. Of his own writings many Latin poems contributed to different collections of Cambridge verse survive, but they are not of sufficient merit to explain the esteem in which he was held. Edward King (British poet) Edward King (1612 – 10 August 1637) is the subject of John Milton's poem"
"Hunt, was later asked by John Bedford Leno whether he preferred Shelley or Byron as a man. He replied: On 8 July 1822, less than a month before his thirtieth birthday, Shelley drowned in a sudden storm on the Gulf of Spezia while returning from Leghorn (Livorno) to Lerici in his sailing boat, the ""Don Juan."" He was returning from having set up ""The Liberal"" with the newly arrived Leigh Hunt. The name ""Don Juan"", a compliment to Byron, was chosen by Edward John Trelawny, a member of the Shelley–Byron Pisan circle. However, according to Mary Shelley's testimony, Shelley changed"
"Digby Mackworth Dolben Digby Augustus Stewart Mackworth Dolben (8 February 1848 – 28 June 1867) was an English poet who died young from drowning. He owes his poetic reputation to his cousin, Robert Bridges, poet laureate from 1913 to 1930, who edited a partial edition of his verse, ""Poems"", in 1911. He was born in Guernsey, and brought up at Finedon Hall in Northamptonshire. His father, William Harcourt Isham Mackworth (1806—1872), a younger son of Sir Digby Mackworth, the 3rd Baronet, took the additional surname Dolben after he married Frances, the heiress of Sir John English Dolben, the 4th Baronet."
"goals. The landing is remembered in the poem La spigolatrice di Sapri by Luigi Mercantini, composed in the same year. This poem in turn inspired the title of the 1952 film about the landing, Eran trecento. It was also translated into English by Henry W. Longfellow with the title ""The Gleaner of Sapri"". In August of every year Carlo Pisacane's landing is celebrated in a three-day festival in Sapri. Carlo Pisacane Carlo Pisacane, Duke of San Giovanni (22 August 1818 – 2 July 1857) was an Italian patriot and one of the first Italian socialist thinkers. He argued that violence"
"Thomas Lovell Beddoes Thomas Lovell Beddoes (30 June 1803 – 26 January 1849) was an English poet, dramatist and physician. Born in Clifton, Bristol, England, he was the son of Dr. Thomas Beddoes, a friend of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Anna, sister of Maria Edgeworth. He was educated at Charterhouse and Pembroke College, Oxford. He published in 1821 ""The Improvisatore"", which he afterwards endeavoured to suppress. His next venture, a blank-verse drama called ""The Bride's Tragedy"" (1822), was published and well reviewed, and won for him the friendship of Barry Cornwall. Beddoes' work shows a constant preoccupation with death. In"
"that first appeared in a 1638 collection of elegies in English and Latin entitled ""Justa Edouardo King Naufrago"". Lycidas serves as Milton's commemoration of his Cambridge college mate, Edward King, who drowned when his ship sank off the coast of Wales in August 1637. In the poem, Milton gives King the name Lycidas, a common name for shepherds in the pastoral poetry of both Theocritus and Virgil. King was both a poet and an aspiring minister, who had died on his way to Ireland to take up a religious posting. Milton uses the shepherd's traditional association with both the poet"
"in the novel ""The Ladies"" by Doris Grumbach (1984). Anna Seward Anna Seward (12 December 174225 March 1809) was a long-eighteenth-century English Romantic poet, often called the Swan of Lichfield. Seward was the eldest of two surviving daughters of Thomas Seward (1708–1790), prebendary of Lichfield and Salisbury, and author, and his wife Elizabeth. Elizabeth Seward later had three further children (John, Jane and Elizabeth) who all died in infancy, and two stillbirths. Anna Seward mourned their loss in her poem ""Eyam"" (1788). Born in 1742 at Eyam, a small mining village in the Peak District of Derbyshire where her father"
"to death. The remaining three were sent to the castle of Chillon as prisoners, out of which two more died due to pining away. In time only the narrator lived. The Prisoner of Chillon The Prisoner of Chillon is a 392-line narrative poem by Lord Byron. Written in 1816, it chronicles the imprisonment of a Genevois monk, François Bonivard, from 1532 to 1536. On 22 June 1816, Lord Byron and his contemporary and friend Percy Bysshe Shelley were sailing on Lake Geneva (referred to as ""Lac Leman"", the French name, throughout the poem) and stopped to visit the Château de"
"‘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,"
"play was also given four times, Quin appearing as Henry IV. It was printed in octavo in 1820. In addition to these dramas Beckingham wrote a poem on the death of Rowe, the dramatist; a second entitled ""Christ's Sufferings, translated from the Latin of Rapin"", and dedicated to the Archbishop of York; and other minor poems. He died 19 February 1730-31. These references are found in the DNB article referred to above. Charles Beckingham Charles Beckingham (25 July 1699 – 19 February 1730-31) was an English poet and dramatist. Beckingham was born, according to the register of Merchant Taylors' School,"
"indicated that he had been moved. He had been out riding his mule the day before when he was ambushed and stabbed 22 times. His brothers, Lorenzo and Guido Strozzi, beseeched Francesco Gonzaga to avenge the death, but the perpetrators were never discovered; his wife, Barabara, also sought Gonzaga's protection following this event, for her and Ercole's daughter was only 13 days old at the time of the murder, while he also had another child by her and two other illegitimate children. Ercole Strozzi Ercole Strozzi (Ferrara, September 2, 1473 – Ferrara, June 6, 1508) was an Italian poet, the"
"Girolamo Graziani Girolamo Graziani (1604 – 12 September 1675), was an Italian poet. Girolamo Graziani () has been one of the most famous poet of 17th century. But his fame didn't survive him. During his life he was appreciated mainly for his epic poems ""La Cleopatra"" (1632) and ""il Conquisto di Granata"" (1650). The latter has been the source for Giacomo Leopardi's ""Consalvo"" (1833). Actually the plot (Love in the imminence of death) and the names of the main characters (Consalvo and Elvira) of Leopardi's ""Consalvo"" seem to come from Graziani's poem. Girolamo Graziani (1604–1675) was born in Pergola, near"
"Henry Bradley"" (1932), as well as the careful editing of his poetry. Subsequently, ""The Poems and Letters of Digby Mackworth Dolben 1848–1867"" (1981) has given a less selective picture. Hopkins' infatuation for Dolben and Dolben's tragic death feature in Simon Edge's novel ""The Hopkins Conundrum"" (2017). Digby Mackworth Dolben Digby Augustus Stewart Mackworth Dolben (8 February 1848 – 28 June 1867) was an English poet who died young from drowning. He owes his poetic reputation to his cousin, Robert Bridges, poet laureate from 1913 to 1930, who edited a partial edition of his verse, ""Poems"", in 1911. He was born"
"Charles Beckingham Charles Beckingham (25 July 1699 – 19 February 1730-31) was an English poet and dramatist. Beckingham was born, according to the register of Merchant Taylors' School, on 25 July 1699 (Robinson's ""Register"", ii. 32). His father was a linen draper in Fleet Street. Beckingham was educated at Merchant Taylors' School under Dr. Smith, and is said to have displayed ""great proficiency in his studies"", and given ""the strongest testimonials of extraordinary abilities"". On 18 February 1718 ""Scipio Africanus"", a historical tragedy in the regulation five acts, was produced at the theatre in Lincoln's Inn Fields. This was followed"
"Algernon Charles Swinburne Algernon Charles Swinburne (5 April 1837 – 10 April 1909) was an English poet, playwright, novelist, and critic. He wrote several novels and collections of poetry such as ""Poems and Ballads"", and contributed to the famous Eleventh Edition of the ""Encyclopædia Britannica"". Swinburne wrote about many taboo topics, such as lesbianism, cannibalism, sado-masochism, and anti-theism. His poems have many common motifs, such as the ocean, time, and death. Several historical people are featured in his poems, such as Sappho (""Sapphics""), Anactoria (""Anactoria""), Jesus (""Hymn to Proserpine"": ""Galilaee"", La. ""Galilean"") and Catullus (""To Catullus""). Swinburne was born at"
"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"
"Gilbert Waterhouse Gilbert Waterhouse (22 January 1883 – 1 July 1916), was an English architect and, later, war poet. He was killed on the first day of the Battle of the Somme, in World War I, while serving as a second lieutenant in the 2nd Bn Essex Regiment. A volume of his poems ""Rail-Head and other poems"" (including the poems ""Rail-Head"" and ""Bivouacs"") was published posthumously in 1916. Waterhouse was born the third child of seven at Chatham Kent on 22 January 1883, his father being a shipbroker. He was educated at Bancroft's School from 1894–1900 and then at the"
"Lycidas ""Lycidas"" () is a poem by John Milton, written in 1637 as a pastoral elegy. It first appeared in a 1638 collection of elegies, entitled ""Justa Edouardo King Naufrago"", dedicated to the memory of Edward King, friend of Milton's at Cambridge who drowned when his ship sank in the Irish Sea off the coast of Wales in August 1637. The poem is 193 lines in length, and is irregularly rhymed. While many of the other poems in the compilation are in Greek and Latin, ""Lycidas"" is one of the poems written in English. Milton republished the poem in 1645."
"Luigi Mercantini Luigi Mercantini (20 September 1821 – 17 November 1872) was an Italian poet and writer, who took part in the movements for the Italian unification in the late 19th century. He is better known for his poem """"La spigolatrice di Sapri"""", depicting the ill-fated expedition led in 1857 by Carlo Pisacane against the Kingdom of Naples, which was also translated into English by Henry W. Longfellow with the title ""The Gleaner of Sapri"". Mercantini is also known for writing the lyrics of the patriotic hymn ""Canzone Italiana"", better known as the ""Garibaldi Hymn"", since it was commissioned in"
"Nahum Tate Nahum Tate ( ; 1652 – 30 July 1715) was an Irish poet, hymnist and lyricist, who became England's poet laureate in 1692. Tate is best known for ""The History of King Lear"", his 1681 adaptation of Shakespeare's ""King Lear"". Nahum Tate was born in Dublin and came from a family of Puritan clerics. He was the son of Faithful Teate, an Irish cleric who had been rector of Castleterra, Ballyhaise, until his house was burnt and his family attacked after he had passed on information to the government about plans for the Irish Rebellion of 1641. After"
"Giovanni Battista Niccolini Giovanni Battista Niccolini (29 October 1782 – 20 September 1861) was an Italian poet and playwright of the Italian unification movement or Risorgimento. Niccolini was born in Bagni San Giuliano in 1792. He wrote his first play in Greek in 1810. The play was strongly based on Greek legend and it was called ""Polissena"". This tragedy about the sacrifice of a virgin was so favourably received that his next three plays were also tragedies. In 1846 his play, ""Arnold of Brescia: A Tragedy"". was translated by the English immigrant Theodosia Trollope into English and published. This work"
"buried in the churchyard of Crosthwaite Parish Church in Cumbria. He was elected a member of the American Antiquarian Society in 1822. He was also a member of the Royal Spanish Academy. Notes Citations Robert Southey Robert Southey ( or (12 August 1774 – 21 March 1843) was an English poet of the Romantic school, one of the Lake Poets along with William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and England's Poet Laureate for 30 years from 1813 until his death in 1843. Although his fame has been eclipsed by that of Wordsworth and Coleridge, his verse still enjoys some popularity."
"William McGonagall William Topaz McGonagall (March 1825 – 29 September 1902) was a Scottish weaver, poet and actor. He won notoriety as an extremely bad poet who exhibited no recognition of, or concern for, his peers' opinions of his work. He wrote about 200 poems, including ""The Tay Bridge Disaster"" and ""The Famous Tay Whale"", which are widely regarded as some of the worst in English literature. Groups throughout Scotland engaged him to make recitations from his work, and contemporary descriptions of these performances indicate that many listeners were appreciating McGonagall's skill as a comic music hall character. Collections of"
"Lord Byron George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron (22 January 1788 – 19 April 1824), known simply as Lord Byron, was a British poet, peer, politician, and leading figure in the Romantic movement. He is regarded as one of the greatest British poets and remains widely read and influential. Among his best-known works are the lengthy narrative poems ""Don Juan"" and ""Childe Harold's Pilgrimage"": many of his shorter lyrics in ""Hebrew Melodies"" also became popular. He travelled extensively across Europe, especially in Italy, where he lived for seven years in the cities of Venice, Ravenna and Pisa. During his stay"
"by Girolamo Graziani"" Other sonnets: ""Main articles and books about Girolamo Graziani:"" Girolamo Graziani Girolamo Graziani (1604 – 12 September 1675), was an Italian poet. Girolamo Graziani () has been one of the most famous poet of 17th century. But his fame didn't survive him. During his life he was appreciated mainly for his epic poems ""La Cleopatra"" (1632) and ""il Conquisto di Granata"" (1650). The latter has been the source for Giacomo Leopardi's ""Consalvo"" (1833). Actually the plot (Love in the imminence of death) and the names of the main characters (Consalvo and Elvira) of Leopardi's ""Consalvo"" seem to"
"there were plans for father and son to reunite, but Henry died, aged 11, before he could make the journey to Rome. On 17 September 1820, Severn set sail onboard the ""Maria Crowther"" from England to Italy with the famous English poet John Keats. Keats and Severn had known one another in England, but they were only passing acquaintances. Yet it was Severn who agreed to accompany the poet to Rome when all others could, or would, not. The trip was intended to cure Keats's lingering illness, which he suspected was tuberculosis; however, his friends and several doctors disagreed and"
"Theodore Watts-Dunton Theodore Watts-Dunton (12 October 1832 – 6 June 1914) was an English critic and poet. He is often remembered as the friend and minder of Algernon Charles Swinburne, whom he rescued from alcoholism. Walter Theodore Watts was born at St. Ives in what was then Huntingdonshire. He added his mother's name of Dunton to his surname in 1897. He was originally educated as a naturalist, and saw much of the East Anglian Gypsies, of whose superstitions and folklore he made careful study. Abandoning natural history for the law, he qualified as a solicitor and went to London, where"