"Mr. Hayes Fisher, M.P., who presided, said that the last pensioned survivor of the Charge of the Light Brigade died on the previous day. His name was Thomas Warr. The last survivor was Edwin Hughes of the 13th Light Dragoons, who died on the 18th May 1927, aged 96. Poet Laureate Alfred, Lord Tennyson wrote evocatively about the battle in his poem ""The Charge of the Light Brigade"". Tennyson's poem, written 2 December and published on 9 December 1854, in ""The Examiner"", praises the Brigade (""When can their glory fade? O the wild charge they made!"") while trenchantly mourning the"
"battery he could see and allegedly said ""There is your enemy, there are your guns""—due to his obstructed view, these were the wrong ones. Lucan then passed the order to the Earl of Cardigan, resulting in the charge of the Light Brigade. In this charge, Cardigan formed up his unit and charged the length of the Valley of the Balaclava, under fire from Russian batteries in the hills. The charge of the Light Brigade caused 278 casualties of the 700-man unit. The Light Brigade was memorialised in the famous poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, ""The Charge of the Light Brigade""."
"Richard Henry Horne Richard Hengist Horne (born Richard Henry Horne) (31 December 1802 – 13 March 1884) was an English poet and critic most famous for his poem . Horne was born at Edmonton, London, son of James Horne, a quarter-master in the 61st Regiment. The family moved to Guernsey, where James was stationed, until James' death on 16 April 1810. Horne was raised at the home of his rich paternal grandmother and sent to a school at Edmonton and then to the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, as he was intended for the army. Horne appears to have had as"
"Lord. I, that on my familiar hill Saw with uncomprehending eyes A hundred of thy sunsets spill Their fresh and sanguine sacrifice, Ere the sun swings his noonday sword Must say good-bye to all of this; – By all delights that I shall miss, Help me to die, O Lord. Written on 30 June 1916, just two days before his death. Before Action: William Noel Hodgson and the 9th Devons – A Story of the Great War – http://www.w-n-hodgson.info/ W. N. Hodgson William Noel Hodgson MC (3 January 1893 – 1 July 1916) was an English poet of the First"
"Revenge throwing his blood-stain'd Sword in Thunder down, and taking the War-denouncing Trumpet with a withering Look. It was not with me then, as it was in later life, when I fell into the society of the Passions and compared them with Collins and Wopsle, rather to the disadvantage of both gentlemen'. William Collins (poet) William Collins (25 December 1721 – 12 June 1759) was an English poet. Second in influence only to Thomas Gray, he was an important poet of the middle decades of the 18th century. His lyrical odes mark a turn away from the Augustan poetry of"
"Richard Lovelace Richard Lovelace (pronounced , homophone of ""loveless"") (9 December 1617 – 1657) was an English poet in the seventeenth century. He was a cavalier poet who fought on behalf of the king during the Civil War. His best known works are ""To Althea, from Prison"", and ""To Lucasta, Going to the Warres"". Richard Lovelace was born on 9 December 1617. His exact birthplace is unknown, and may have been Woolwich, Kent, or Holland. He was the oldest son of Sir William Lovelace and Anne Barne Lovelace. He had four brothers and three sisters. His father was from a"
"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"
"of the last stanza of ""To Althea, From Prison"": and the end of ""To Lucasta. Going to the Warres"": Richard Lovelace Richard Lovelace (pronounced , homophone of ""loveless"") (9 December 1617 – 1657) was an English poet in the seventeenth century. He was a cavalier poet who fought on behalf of the king during the Civil War. His best known works are ""To Althea, from Prison"", and ""To Lucasta, Going to the Warres"". Richard Lovelace was born on 9 December 1617. His exact birthplace is unknown, and may have been Woolwich, Kent, or Holland. He was the oldest son 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"
"The Last of the Light Brigade ""The Last of the Light Brigade"" is a poem written in 1890 by Rudyard Kipling echoing – thirty-six years after the event – Alfred Tennyson's famous poem ""The Charge of the Light Brigade"". Employing synecdoche, Kipling uses his poem to expose the terrible hardship faced in old age by veterans of the Crimean War, as exemplified by the cavalry men of the light brigade who charged at the Battle of Balaclava. It describes a visit by the last twenty survivors of the charge to Tennyson (then in his eightieth year) to reproach him gently"
"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"
"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,"
"mutilated soldiers. But he also photographed the landscape, including an area near to where the Charge of the Light Brigade – made famous in Tennyson's poem – took place. In letters home soldiers had called the original valley ""The Valley of Death"", and Tennyson's poem used the same phrase, so when in September 1855 Thomas Agnew put the picture on show, as one of a series of eleven collectively titled ""Panorama of the Plateau of Sebastopol in Eleven Parts"" in a London exhibition, he took the troops'—and Tennyson's—epithet, expanded it as ""The Valley of the Shadow of Death"" with its"
"the commission, which gave him complete freedom in deciding what to compose. He chose to set the traditional Latin Mass for the Dead interwoven with nine poems about war by the English poet Wilfred Owen. Owen, who was born in 1893, was serving as the commander of a rifle company when he was killed in action on 4 November 1918 during the crossing of the Sambre-Oise Canal in France, just one week before the Armistice. Although he was virtually unknown at the time of his death, he has subsequently come to be revered as one of the great war poets."
"Malcolm Arnold, the English composer, who is best remembered for his nine symphonies and also wrote the scores for many films including ""The Bridge on the River Kwai"", ""Whistle Down the Wind"", ""Hobson's Choice"", and ""The Inn of the Sixth Happiness"". Sir Malcolm, who was born in Northampton, died in 2006 aged 84. Admission is granted primarily to members of the Church of England fed by the link schools of All Saints CEVA Primary School, Collingtree CEVA Primary School, St Andrew’s CEVA Primary School, St James’ CEVA Primary School, St Luke’s CEVA Primary School, Weston Favell CEVA Primary School, or"
"Siegfried Sassoon Siegfried Loraine Sassoon, (8 September 1886 – 1 September 1967) was an English poet, writer, and soldier. Decorated for bravery on the Western Front, he became one of the leading poets of the First World War. His poetry both described the horrors of the trenches and satirised the patriotic pretensions of those who, in Sassoon's view, were responsible for a jingoism-fuelled war. Sassoon became a focal point for dissent within the armed forces when he made a lone protest against the continuation of the war in his ""Soldier's Declaration"" of 1917, culminating in his admission to a military"
"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"
"Wilfrid Ball Wilfrid Williams Ball (1853–1917) was a British Victorian and Edwardian painter of landscapes and marine subjects. Wilfrid Williams Ball was born in London on 4 January 1853, the fifth of six children of Benjamin Williams Ball, an accountant and amateur poet, and Sylvia (Good) Ball. He was athletic as well as artistically talented, and as a member of the London Athletic Club won prizes in several sports. His younger sister Rosamund became a noted Victorian poet. Ball initially spent several years in an accountant's office as his father did not wish him to become an artist. In the"
"each time. In 2009 a Mass commemorating the 30th anniversary of his death was held at Westminster Cathedral in London, England. A poet, he left behind 6,000 poems. A campaign to have Bradburne beatified and canonised is being led by his niece, Celia Brigstocke. John Bradburne John Randal Bradburne, O.F.S. (14 June 1921 in Skirwith, Cumbria, England, UK – 5 September 1979 near Mutoko, Mashonaland South, Rhodesia – now Mashonaland East, Zimbabwe), was a lay member of the Order of St Francis, a poet, warden of the Mutemwa leper colony at Mutoko. Killed by guerrillas, he is a candidate for"
"quotes from Habington’s poem ‘To My Honoured Friend, Sir Ed. P. Knight’: “Direct your eye sight inward, and you’ll find A thousand regions in your mind Yet undiscovered. Travel them, and be Expert in home-cosmography”. William Habington William Habington (November 4, 1605 – November 30, 1654) was an English poet. Habington was born at Hindlip Hall, Worcestershire, and belonged to a well-known Catholic family. His father, Sir Thomas Habington, an antiquary and historical scholar, had been implicated in the plots on behalf of Mary, Queen of Scots; his uncle, Sir Edward Habington, was beheaded in 1586 on the charge of"
"""O, Turn Aside Thy Loving Eyes"" and ""Fading Beauty"". Richard Abbot Richard Abbot (1818 – 15 July 1904) was an English poet. He was born in Burton-in-Kendal, Westmorland (now Cumbria). His father worked as a subcontractor on the Lancaster and Kendal Canal, which was then being extended to Tewitfield. His mother died when he was three years old. Abbot's initial education, from the age of four, was undertaken at Dame schools in Shap Fell and Galgate, Lancashire, before he studied at a National school in Ingleton, North Yorkshire. When the family was in Ingleton, Abbot's father began farming on the"
"Thomas Hood Thomas Hood (23 May 1799 – 3 May 1845) was an English poet, author and humorist, best known for poems such as ""The Bridge of Sighs"" and ""The Song of the Shirt"". Hood wrote regularly for ""The London Magazine"", ""Athenaeum"", and ""Punch"". He later published a magazine largely consisting of his own works. Hood, never robust, lapsed into invalidism by the age of 41 and died at the age of 45. William Michael Rossetti in 1903 called him ""the finest English poet"" between the generations of Shelley and Tennyson. Hood was the father of playwright and humorist Tom"
"the psychiatrist responsible for Sassoon's treatment. Rivers became a kind of surrogate father to the troubled young man, and his sudden death in 1922 was a major blow to Sassoon. Siegfried Sassoon Siegfried Loraine Sassoon, (8 September 1886 – 1 September 1967) was an English poet, writer, and soldier. Decorated for bravery on the Western Front, he became one of the leading poets of the First World War. His poetry both described the horrors of the trenches and satirised the patriotic pretensions of those who, in Sassoon's view, were responsible for a jingoism-fuelled war. Sassoon became a focal point for"
"life and works are commemorated by the Moonstones; a statue of him, Boulton and Watt, by William Bloye; and ""Murdock Road"", all in Birmingham. There is also a ""Murdoch House"" in Rotherhithe, London and ""Murdoch, Watt, Martineu and Sturge Residencies"" as student accommodation. The town of Redruth has an Annual Murdoch Day in June. The 2007 event included a parade of schoolchildren with banners on the theme ""Earth, Wind, Fire and Water"" and the first public journey of a full-size, working reproduction of Murdoch's Steam Carriage. William Murdoch William Murdoch (sometimes spelled Murdock) (21 August 1754 – 15 November 1839)"
"for the Battle of Balaclava during the Crimean War thanks to the suicidal Charge of the Light Brigade, a British cavalry charge due to a misunderstanding sent up a valley strongly held on three sides by the Russians, in which about 250 men were killed or wounded, and over 400 horses lost, effectively reducing the size of the mounted brigade by two thirds and destroying some of the finest light cavalry in the world to no military purpose. The British poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson immortalized the battle in verse in his ""Charge of the Light Brigade"". The balaclava, a tight"
"My limbs I indolently throw, And leave the world and care behind. Here blest with peace, with ease and health, Life’s toilsome scenes, O let me shun! Forego ambition, fame and wealth, To bask me in the evening sun. And as this gentle bosom'd stream With silent lapse serenely flows, Smiles and reflects the golden beam, Ere modest evening's glories close; So let me, in life's tranquil evening, find alm, soft, unruffl'd joys – the sunshine of the mind! William Newton (poet) William Newton (1750–1830), a labouring class poet often referred to as 'the Peak Minstrel', was born near Abney,"
"just under a month before the Armistice. He was buried in La Kreule Military Cemetery, near Hazebrouck. Fred Waterson Frederick Waterson (1877 – 12 October 1918) was an English professional football right half who made over 160 appearances in the Football League for Burton Swifts and Burton United. After his retirement from professional football, Waterson worked at Doncaster Works. During the First World War he enlisted in the King's Own (Yorkshire Light Infantry). He subsequently transferred to the Durham Light Infantry and was serving as a corporal when he was wounded on the Western Front during the Hundred Days Offensive"
"as the ""stereotypical poet of the nineties"". John Gray (poet) Canon John Gray (2 March 1866 – 14 June 1934) was an English poet and Catholic priest whose works include ""Silverpoints"", ""The Long Road"" and ""Park: A Fantastic Story"". It has often been suggested that he was the inspiration behind Oscar Wilde's fictional Dorian Gray despite evidence of the contrary. Born in the working-class district of Bethnal Green, London, he was the first of nine children. He left school at the age of 13 and began work as an apprentice metal-worker at the Royal Arsenal. He continued his education by"
"vall, Var he can’t see a glimpse at all”... </poem> <poem> ...Then Father Crismus mead a spache, A wishen ael good cheer; Likewise a merry Crismis tide, An happy, bright new year. An atter that, they ate an drunk, As much as they wur willin; Then out comes grammer, an she gies To every man a shillin... </poem> Edward Slow Edward Slow (1841 – 16 February 1925) was a poet born in Wilton, Wiltshire, England. By profession he was a carriage builder. He wrote many poems and tracts based on his everyday observations of contemporary Victorian and Edwardian rural life."
"also inspired by his brother Henry's travels, often incorporating some of his stories from overseas into tellings of his own life story. The character of August Barnard in Edgar's novel ""The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket"" (1838) seems to be inspired by Henry, especially in his travels across the sea and his drinking. Poe may have also transformed his brother's name into the title character in his poem ""Lenore"". William Henry Leonard Poe William Henry Leonard Poe, often referred to as Henry Poe, (January 30, 1807 – August 1, 1831) was a sailor, amateur poet and the older"
"tender father, and the gen'rous friend"". ""The pitying heart that felt for human woe"", ""The dauntless heart that fear'd no human pride"", ""The friend of man – to vice alone a foe""; ‘""For even his failings lean'd to virtues side"""". William Burnes William Burnes or William Burness (11 November 1721 – 13 February 1784), the father of Robert Burns the poet, was born at either Upper Kinmonth or Clochnahill Farm, Dunnottar, Kincardineshire, and trained as a gardener at Inverugie Castle, Aberdeenshire, before moving to Ayrshire and becoming a tenant farmer. His parents were Robert Burnes and Isabella Keith. He retained"
"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"
"glorify or sanctify war. The Charge of the Light Brigade by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, with its galloping hoofbeat rhythm, is a prime late Victorian example of this, though Rudyard Kipling had written a scathing reply, ""The Last of the Light Brigade"", criticising the poverty in which many Light Brigade veterans found themselves in old age. Instead, the new wave of poetry, from the war poets, was written from the point of view of the disenchanted trench soldier. Leading war poets included: Siegfried Sassoon, Wilfred Owen, John McCrae, Rupert Brooke, Isaac Rosenberg, and David Jones. A similar movement occurred in literature,"