"Cromwell, Our Chief of Men Cromwell, Our Chief of Men by Antonia Fraser is a biography of Oliver Cromwell. The title is from a poem praising Cromwell by John Milton, perhaps the most famous and accomplished poet of the English Commonwealth. Fraser's goal is to ""rescue"" Oliver Cromwell and rehabilitate his reputation as a statesman and leader, while not glossing over his obvious faults. From Fraser's point of view, one of Cromwell's main flaws was his tendency to lose his temper in the heat of battle and this character flaw explains the Massacre at Drogheda (1649) and much of his"
"Am a Cat"" and ""Ten Nights of Dreams"" by Natsume Sōseki, both of which he worked alongside Aiko Itō to produce, and thousands of poems, mainly in translation from Chinese or Japanese. Graeme Wilson (translator) Graeme McDonald Wilson (9 May 1919 – 2 September 1992) was a British academic and translator. He served in the Fleet Air Arm (1939–46) and, following World War II, joined the Home Civil Service. He has lectured for the British Council, written reviews for English journals, and radio scripts for the Australian Broadcasting Company. In 1964 he was seconded to the Foreign Service as Counsellor"
"Oliver Cromwell Oliver Cromwell (25 April 15993 September 1658) was an English military and political leader. He served as Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland, and Ireland from 1653 until his death, acting simultaneously as head of state and head of government of the new republic. Cromwell was born into the middle gentry to a family descended from the sister of King Henry VIII's minister Thomas Cromwell. Little is known of the first 40 years of his life, as only four of his personal letters survive along with a summary of a speech that he delivered in 1628."
"Cory while he was at Eton, and continued it until the time of Cory's death. The dedication mentions three Prime Ministers, two of which (Rosebery and Balfour) learnt at Eton ""the elements of high politics from IONICUS"" (Rosebery and Balfour), whereas the third (Asquith) ""showed him kindness in his old age"". William Johnson Cory William Johnson Cory (9 January 1823 – 11 June 1892), born William Johnson, was an English educator and poet. He was dismissed from his post at Eton for encouraging a culture of intimacy, possibly innocent, between teachers and pupils. He is widely known for his English"
"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"
"Enoch Powell John Enoch Powell (16 June 19128 February 1998) was a British politician, classical scholar, author, linguist, soldier, philologist and poet. He served as a Conservative Member of Parliament (1950–74), then Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) MP (1974–87), and was Minister of Health (1960–63). Before entering politics, Powell was a classical scholar, becoming a full professor of Ancient Greek at the age of 25 in Australia. During World War II, he served in both staff and intelligence positions, reaching the rank of brigadier in his early thirties. He also wrote poetry; his first works being published in 1937, as well"
"Marvell had mastered four languages, including French, Italian and Spanish. Marvell's first poems, which were written in Latin and Greek and published when he was still at Cambridge, lamented a visitation of the plague and celebrated the birth of a child to King Charles I and Queen Henrietta Maria. He only belatedly became sympathetic to the successive regimes during the Interregnum after Charles I's execution on 30 January 1649. His ""Horatian Ode"", a political poem dated to early 1650, responds with lament to the regicide even as it praises Oliver Cromwell's return from Ireland. Circa 1650–52, Marvell served as tutor"
"Charles Tomlinson Alfred Charles Tomlinson, CBE (8 January 1927 – 22 August 2015) was a British poet, translator, academic and illustrator. He was born in Penkhull, and grew up in Basford, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire. After attending Longton High School, Tomlinson read English at Queens' College, Cambridge, where he studied with Donald Davie. After leaving university he taught for several years in Camden Town, London, followed by a brief period as secretary to Percy Lubbock in Italy, before returning to London as an M.A. student at London University. He taught for thirty-six years in the English Department of Bristol University where he"
"Elijah Fenton Elijah Fenton (20 May 1683 – 16 July 1730) was an English poet, biographer and translator. Born in Shelton (now Stoke-on-Trent), and educated at Jesus College, Cambridge, for a time he acted as secretary to the Charles Boyle, 4th Earl of Orrery in Flanders, and was then Master of Sevenoaks Grammar School. In 1707, Fenton published a book of poems. He later became tutor to Sir William Trumbull's son at Easthampstead Park in Berkshire and is now best known as the assistant of his neighbour, Alexander Pope, in his translation of the ""Odyssey"", of which he 'Englished' the"
"John Cleveland John Cleveland (16 June 1613 – 29 April 1658) was an English poet who supported the Royalist cause in the English Civil War. He was best known for political satire. The son of the Rev. Thomas Cleveland, vicar of Hinckley (1620–52), Cleveland was born in Loughborough, and educated at Hinckley Grammar School. Admitted to Christ's College, Cambridge, he graduated BA in 1632 and became a fellow of St John's College in 1634, where he became a college tutor and lecturer on rhetoric. A staunch Royalist, Cleveland opposed the election of Oliver Cromwell as member for Cambridge in the"
"the war. He later reported directly to President Abraham Lincoln. He was placed in charge of troops during the New York Draft Riots in 1863. He was the author of a life of Oliver Cromwell, and a book of poetry. His book ""Dramas and Poems"" was published in 1887. For his literary work, he added his mother's surname to his own in order to distinguish himself from his similarly-named relatives, publishing under the name Alexander Hamilton, of ""Heuvel"". He was cited as ""remarkable for his cultured mind, speaking a number of languages,"" and as a ""mathematician and penman."" He was"
"1944, and a steam locomotive built by British Railways in 1951 was the BR Standard Class 7 70013 Oliver Cromwell. Other public statues of Cromwell are the Statue of Oliver Cromwell, St Ives in Cambridgeshire and the Statue of Oliver Cromwell, Warrington in Cheshire. An oval plaque at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge reads: <poem style=""margin:0.3em auto; text-align:center;""> Near to this place was buried on 25 March 1960 the head of OLIVER CROMWELL Lord Protector of the Common- wealth of England, Scotland & Ireland, Fellow Commoner of this College 1616-7</poem> Oliver Cromwell Oliver Cromwell (25 April 15993 September 1658) was an"
"Oliver Cromwell in popular culture Oliver Cromwell (25 April 1599 – 3 September 1658) was an English military and political leader and later Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland. The posthumous execution of Cromwell, on the anniversary of the regicide in 1661, struck the imagination of the Italian writer, and State Secretary of Este court in Modena, Girolamo Graziani who involved himself since then in his ""Il Cromuele"" (1671), a tragedy that deals with the theme of the dark cruel tyrant, (Oliver Cromwell) and the violated regality (Charles I of England's martyrdom). The plot is full"
"Critical Essays"", ""William Carlos Williams: A Critical Anthology"", ""George Oppen: Selected Poems"", ""Eros English'd: Classical Erotic Poetry in Translation from Golding to Hardy"", and ""John Dryden: Poems"". His poetry has been translated into Spanish by Jordi Doce and Octavio Paz, into Italian by Silvano Sabbadini, Edoardo Zuccato, and others, into French by Michele Duclos, and into Greek by Yannis Livadas. Charles Tomlinson Alfred Charles Tomlinson, CBE (8 January 1927 – 22 August 2015) was a British poet, translator, academic and illustrator. He was born in Penkhull, and grew up in Basford, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire. After attending Longton High School, Tomlinson read"
"and had three children. Oliver Bernard Oliver Bernard (6 December 1925 - 1 June 2013) was an English poet and translator. He is perhaps best known for translating Arthur Rimbaud into English as part of the Penguin Classics collection. Bernard was born in London, to the English architect Oliver Percy Bernard OBE and the opera singer Dora Hodges. He had two brothers, the art critic and photographer Bruce Bernard and the journalist Jeffrey Bernard. All three brothers were prominent in London's literary and artistic scene in the mid-twentieth century. Bernard published a book of memoirs. Tony Benn wrote of Oliver"
"other languages, including the works of Edgar Allan Poe. He was thought of as an innovative poet and enjoyed friendships with many of his fellow Russian emigrant poets. He died from pneumonia in France in 1942. Konstantin Balmont was born at his family's estate, Gumnishchi, Shuya (then Vladimir Governorate, now Ivanovo Oblast), the third of seven sons of a Russian nobleman, lawyer, and senior state official, Dmitry Konstantinovich Balmont, and Vera Nikolayevna (née Le′bedeva) who came from a military family. The latter knew several foreign languages, was enthusiastic about literature and theater, and exerted a strong influence on her son."
"In England and the rest of the British Isles Oliver Cromwell's rule temporarily banned all theatre, festivals, jesters, mummers plays and frivolities. The ban was lifted when the monarchy was restored with Charles II. The Drury Lane theatre was favorite of King Charles. In contrast to the metaphysical poets was John Milton's ""Paradise Lost"", an epic religious poem in blank verse. Milton had been Oliver Cromwell's chief propagandist and suffered when the Restoration came. ""Paradise Lost"" is one of the highest developments of the epic form in poetry immediately preceding the era of the modern prose novel. An allegorical novel,"
"Robert Louis Stevenson Robert Louis Stevenson (13 November 1850 – 3 December 1894) was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, musician and travel writer. His most famous works are ""Treasure Island"", ""Kidnapped"", ""Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde"", and ""A Child's Garden of Verses"". He was a literary celebrity during his lifetime, and now ranks as the 26th most translated author in the world. His works have been admired by many other writers, including Jorge Luis Borges, Bertolt Brecht, Marcel Proust, Arthur Conan Doyle, Henry James, Cesare Pavese, Emilio Salgari, Ernest Hemingway, Rudyard Kipling, Jack London, Vladimir Nabokov, J."
"of the Order of the British Empire. Carter died on 12 September 2018. Ronald Carter (linguist) Ronald Allan Carter (4 May 1947 – 12 September 2018) was a British linguist. A native of Leeds, Carter studied English, Russian, and German, as well as comparative literature, at University of Birmingham. He began teaching at the University of Nottingham after completing a doctorate in 1979. Carter was a founding member of the Poetics and Linguistics Association, and later led the group as chairman. He was elected fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in 1995, and granted an equivalent honor by the"
"Waller Rodwell Wright Waller Rodwell Wright (1775 – 20 April 1826) was an English barrister, author and diplomat. His best-known work was the poem ""Horæ Ionicæ"". He was British consul-general for the republic of the Seven Islands (Ionian Islands) from 1800 to 1804. Wright was born in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, the son of Mathew Wright. He was educated at King Edward VI Free Grammar School in Bury St Edmunds. In 1791, he was admitted to Trinity College, Cambridge. He was called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1793, From 1800–04, Wright was British consul-general for the republic of"
"Robin Flower Robin Ernest William Flower (16 October 1881 – 16 January 1946) was an English poet and scholar, a Celticist, Anglo-Saxonist and translator from the Irish language. He is commonly known in Ireland as ""Bláithín"" (Little Flower). He was born at Meanwood in Yorkshire, and educated at Leeds Grammar School. His parents, Marmaduke and Jane, were from families with Irish ancestry. He was awarded a scholarship to study Classics at Pembroke College, Oxford and graduated with first honours in 1904, before obtaining work as an assistant in the British Museum in 1906. It was during his early years at"
"George Orwell Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950), better known by his pen name George Orwell, was an English novelist, essayist, journalist, Imperial police officer, and critic whose work is marked by lucid prose, awareness of social injustice, opposition to totalitarianism and outspoken support of democratic socialism. Orwell wrote literary criticism, poetry, fiction and polemical journalism. He is best known for the allegorical novella ""Animal Farm"" (1945) and the dystopian novel ""Nineteen Eighty-Four"" (1949). His non-fiction works, including ""The Road to Wigan Pier"" (1937), documenting his experience of working class life in the north of England,"
"London and New York in a production by Jonathan Kent with Diana Rigg in the leading rôle. His poems have appeared in ""Oxford Poetry"", ""The Paris Review"", and many other journals. Alistair Elliot Alistair Elliot (13 October 1932 – 3 November 2018) was a British librarian, poet and translator. He was born in Liverpool, son of a Scottish family doctor and an English mother, and educated at Asheville School, Asheville, North Carolina, Fettes College, Edinburgh, and Christ Church, Oxford. He was a vegetable invoice clerk in Covent Garden market, night sterilizer in a food factory, waiter, film critic, supply teacher,"
"August 1987 £399411"". Oliver Stonor Oliver Stonor (born ""Frederick Field Stoner"", and also using the pseudonym (E.) Morchard Bishop, FRSL) (3 July 1903 – 12 April 1987) was an English novelist, reviewer, translator, and man of letters. He was briefly the husband of the Irish writer Norah Hoult. He was born at Teddington, the son of Alfred Hills Stoner and Sarah Louise Stoner, and educated at Kingston Grammar School. His father and grandfather were quantity surveyors, and he was trained in this profession at the offices of the family firm in Broad Street, City of London. As soon as he"
"Tom Raworth Thomas Moore ""Tom"" Raworth (19 July 1938 – 8 February 2017) was an English-Irish poet, publisher, editor, and teacher who published over 40 books of poetry and prose during his life. His work has been translated and published in many countries. Raworth was a key figure in the British Poetry Revival. Raworth was born on 19 July 1938 in Bexleyheath, Kent, and grew up in Welling, the neighbouring town. His family maintained its strong Irish connections while he was growing up, something which would leave an impression on Raworth's sense of himself as a poet. His mother's family"
"the use of them in his poetry, preferring instead to use the Saxon language. Where there was no Saxon equivalent, Barnes would often invent words and phrases, such as 'push wainling' instead of perambulator. Barnes had studied Celtic literature and often used a repetition of consonantal sounds known as cynghanedd. This is particularly noticeable in the poem, ""My Orcha'd in Linden Lea"". Another poet who wrote in the local dialect was Robert Young whose work includes, ""Rabin Hill's Visit to the Railway: What he Zeed and Done, and What he Zed About It"". While the novelist John Cowper Powys's (1872-1963)"
"Anthony Cronin Anthony Gerard Richard Cronin (23 December 1928 – 27 December 2016) was an Irish poet, novelist, biographer, critic, commentator, barrister and arts activist. Anthony Cronin was born in Enniscorthy, County Wexford in December 1928. After obtaining a B.A. from the National University of Ireland, he entered the King's Inns and was later called to the Bar. With Flann O’Brien, Patrick Kavanagh and Con Leventhal, Cronin celebrated the first Bloomsday in 1954. He contributed to many television programmes, including ""Flann O’Brien: Man of Parts"" (BBC) and ""Folio"" (RTÉ). He had honorary doctorates from several institutions, including Dublin University, the"
"though I should not be willing to say it was fully equal to what might be expected from the author of ""Horæ Ionicæ"". In reference to this poem Byron had previously written in ;English Bards:; Waller Rodwell Wright Waller Rodwell Wright (1775 – 20 April 1826) was an English barrister, author and diplomat. His best-known work was the poem ""Horæ Ionicæ"". He was British consul-general for the republic of the Seven Islands (Ionian Islands) from 1800 to 1804. Wright was born in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, the son of Mathew Wright. He was educated at King Edward VI Free Grammar"
"literary work, published under the name of John Paris, reflected his period of residence in Japan and included the novels ""Kimono"" (1921), ""Sayonara"" (1924), ""Banzai!"" (1925),""The Island beyond Japan"" (1929), ""Matsu"" (1932) and a collection of verses ""A Japanese Don Juan and other Poems"" (1926). The novels were noted for their realistic portrayal of life in East Asia. Previously, whilst an undergraduate at Oxford, he was awarded the 1909 Newdigate Prize for a poem entitled ""Michelangelo"". Frank Ashton-Gwatkin Frank Trelawny Arthur Ashton-Gwatkin (14 April 1889 – 30 January 1976) was a British diplomat and Foreign Office official. He was a"
"on ""Arrondissements"". Douglas Oliver Douglas Dunlop Oliver (14 September 1937 – 21 April 2000) was a poet, novelist, editor, and educator. The author of more than a dozen works, Oliver came into poetry not as an academic but through a career in journalism, notably in Cambridge, Paris, and Coventry, before attending the University of Essex in the 1970s. He received a B.A. (literature) in 1975 and an M.A. (applied linguistics) in 1982. Oliver subsequently lived in Brightlingsea, Paris, New York, and again Paris, usually working as a lecturer. Oliver was born in 1937 in Southampton, Hampshire as the youngest of"
"by the government. Nonetheless, over the course of decades following the war, a steady stream of Łysohorsky's work began to be translated and published abroad, such as an English release, ""Selected Poems"" (1970, ed. Ewald Osers), which included translations by W. H. Auden. David Gill also brought out a collection celebrating fifty years of Łysohorsky's poetry entitled ""In the Eye of the Storm"" (1976). While decently recognized by the international community during the Cold War, it appeared as of 2011 that none of his work currently remains in print in English. Óndra Łysohorsky Óndra Łysohorsky was the pseudonym of Ervín"
"the Law Commission. William Sewell (poet) William Seymour (Bill) Sewell (1 December 1951 – 29 January 2003) was a New Zealand poet. He was a Burns Fellow at Otago University, Dunedin in 1981–82. He was a frequent reviewer of books, particularly for the periodical ""New Zealand Books"", to which he was appointed co-editor in 1997. He was also a book editor. He died of cancer in Wellington. He published three collections of poems: ""Solo Flight"" (1982), ""Wheels within Wheels"" (1983) and ""Making the Far Land Glow"" (1986) and also ""A Guide to the Rimutaka Forest Park"" (1989). His poems have"
"Ghunna, and Seán Clárach Mac Domhnaill. Irish Catholics continued to receive an education in secret ""hedgeschools"", in spite of the Penal laws. A knowledge of Latin was common among the poor Irish mountaineers in the 17th century, who spoke it on special occasions, while cattle were bought and sold in Greek in the mountain market-places of Kerry. For a comparatively small population of about 6 million people, Ireland made an enormous contribution to literature. Irish literature encompasses the Irish and English languages. Notable Irish writers, playwrights and poets include Jonathan Swift, Laurence Sterne, Oscar Wilde, Oliver Goldsmith, James Joyce, George"