American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat.
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James Russell Lowell
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Ealing memorial gates - WW1 + WW2
The quotation comes from 'Ode Recited at the Harvard Commemoration, July 21, ...
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Gavin Ewart
Poet. Born 25 Norfolk Crescent. First published aged 17. Died at a hospice in Clapham.
Sir Henry Newbolt
Poet. Also: lawyer, novelist, playwright and magazine editor. Born Staffordshire. Famous for one poem: 'Vitai Lampada'. Written in 1897 this oh-so-British plea for war to be played in the same spir...
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Poet and Jesuit priest. Born 87 The Grove, Stratford, of Welsh ancestry. 1852 the family moved to Hampstead and GMH attended Highgate School where he flourished. At Oxford University he converted ...
Edmund Spenser
Poet. Probably born in East or West Smithfield. Best known for the epic poem 'The Faerie Queene'. When Queen Elizabeth failed to arrange payment ("a reason") for a poem he wrote: I was promis'd ...
Arthur Waley
Poet, translator and orientalist. He never actually visited China nor Japan.
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