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1927 In Poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events *June 29 – T. S. Eliot enters the Church of England; in November he takes British citizenship. *July 7 – James Joyce's collection ''Pomes Penyeach'' is published by Shakespeare and Company in Paris. *August – T. S. Eliot's poem ''Journey of the Magi'' is published in Faber and Gwyer's Ariel poems series (London) illustrated by E. McKnight Kauffer. Works published Canada * Alfred Bailey, ''Songs of the Saguenay and other poems''.Biographical Sketch " Dr. Alfred Goldsworthy Bailey fonds, Lib.UNB.ca, Web, May 5, 2011. * , ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Indian Poetry In English
Indian English poetry is the oldest form of Indian English literature. Henry Louis Vivian Derozio is considered the first poet in the lineage of Indian English poetry followed by Rabindranath Tagore, Sri Aurobindo, Sarojini Naidu, Michael Madhusudan Dutt, and Toru Dutt, among others. History Nissim Ezekiel is considered to be a pioneering figure in modern Indian English Poetry.His first book, ''A Time to Change'', was published in 1952. The significant poets of the post-Derozio and pre-Ezekiel times are Toru Dutt, Michael Madhusudan Dutt, Sarojini Naidu, Sri Aurobindo and Rabindranath Tagore. Some of the notable poets of Ezekiel's time are A. K. Ramanujan, R. Parthasarathy, Gieve Patel, Jayant Mahapatra, Dom Moraes, Kamala Das, Keki N. Daruwalla, Arvind Krishna Mehrotra, Shiv K. Kumar, Arun Kolatkar and Dilip Chitre. Rabindranath Tagore wrote primarily in Bengali and created a small body of work (mainly prose) in English and was responsible for the translations o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joe Corrie
Joe Corrie (13 May 1894 – 13 November 1968) was a Scottish miner, poet, novelist and playwright best known for his radical, working class plays. He was born in Slamannan, Stirlingshire in 1894. His family moved to Cardenden in the Fife coalfield when Corrie was still an infant and he started work at the pits in 1908. He died in Edinburgh in 1968. Shortly after the First World War, Corrie started writing. His articles, sketches, short stories and poems were published in prominent socialist newspapers and journals, including ''Forward'' and ''The Miner.'' Corrie's volumes of poetry include ''The Image o' God and Other Poems ''(1927), ''Rebel Poems'' (1932) and ''Scottish Pride and Other Poems ''(1955). T. S. Eliot wrote "Not since Burns has the voice of Scotland spoken with such authentic lyric note". He turned to writing plays during the General Strike in 1926. His one-act plays and sketches were performed by the Bowhill Players, an amateur company of miners who performed t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
English Poetry
This article focuses on poetry from the United Kingdom written in the English language. The article does not cover poetry from other countries where the English language is spoken, including the Republic of Ireland after December 1922. The earliest surviving English poetry, written in Old English language, Anglo-Saxon, the direct predecessor of modern English, may have been composed as early as the 7th century. The earliest English poetry The earliest known English poem is a hymn on the creation; Bede attributes this to Cædmon (floruit, fl. 658–680), who was, according to legend, an illiterate herdsman who produced extemporaneous poetry at a monastery at Whitby. This is generally taken as marking the beginning of Old English poetry, Anglo-Saxon poetry. Much of the poetry of the period is difficult to date, or even to arrange chronologically; for example, estimates for the date of the great epic ''Beowulf'' range from A.D. 608 right through to A.D. 1000, and there has ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Northwestern Europe, off the coast of European mainland, the continental mainland. It comprises England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. The UK includes the island of Great Britain, the north-eastern part of the island of Ireland, and most of List of islands of the United Kingdom, the smaller islands within the British Isles, covering . Northern Ireland shares Republic of Ireland–United Kingdom border, a land border with the Republic of Ireland; otherwise, the UK is surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean, the North Sea, the English Channel, the Celtic Sea and the Irish Sea. It maintains sovereignty over the British Overseas Territories, which are located across various oceans and seas globally. The UK had an estimated population of over 68.2 million people in 2023. The capital and largest city of both England and the UK is London. The cities o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gwendoline Goodwin
Gwendoline is a feminine given name, a variant of Gwendolen. Notable people called Gwendoline *Gwendoline Maud Syrie Barnardo (1879–1955), a British interior decorator * Gwendoline Butler (1922-2013), an English writer of mystery fiction *Gwendoline Christie (born 1978), a British actress *Gwendoline Davies (1882–1951), a Welsh patron of the arts * Gwendoline Didier (born 1986), a French figure skater *Gwendoline Eastlake-Smith (1883–1941), a British tennis player * Gwendoline "Gwen" Harwood (1920–1995), an Australian poet *Gwendoline Malegwale Ramokgopa, mayor of the City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality, South Africa *Gwendoline Porter (1902–1993), a British athlete *Gwendoline Riley (born 1979), an English writer * Gwendoline "Wendy" Wood (1892–1981), a Scottish nationalist and artist *Gwendoline Yeo (born 1977), a Singaporean-American actress and musician Fictional characters *Gwendoline Mary Lacey, a character in Enid Blyton's ''Malory Towers'' series of child ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1925 In Poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature, including Irish or France. Events * January – Ezra Pound returns to Rapallo, Italy from Sicily to settle permanently after a brief stay the year before. * February 11 – Eli Siegel wins ''The Nation'' Poetry Prize for "Hot Afternoons Have Been in Montana".Alexander Laing in "The Nation and its Poets," page 212. ''The Nation'', Vol. 201, No. 8 (20 September 1965) * February 21 – First issue of ''The New Yorker'' magazine is published. * November 21 – First issue of ''McGill Fortnightly Review'', a publication of Montreal Group of modernist poets and the first organ to feature modernist poetry, fiction, and literary criticism in Canada. * December 28 – Russian poet Sergei Yesenin (b. 1895) writes his farewell poem, "Goodbye, my friend, goodbye" (), in his own blood before hanging himself at the Angleterre Hotel in Leningrad. * T. S. Eliot leaves Lloyds Bank in Lo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
London
London is the Capital city, capital and List of urban areas in the United Kingdom, largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in . London metropolitan area, Its wider metropolitan area is the largest in Western Europe, with a population of 14.9 million. London stands on the River Thames in southeast England, at the head of a tidal estuary down to the North Sea, and has been a major settlement for nearly 2,000 years. Its ancient core and financial centre, the City of London, was founded by the Roman Empire, Romans as Londinium and has retained its medieval boundaries. The City of Westminster, to the west of the City of London, has been the centuries-long host of Government of the United Kingdom, the national government and Parliament of the United Kingdom, parliament. London grew rapidly 19th-century London, in the 19th century, becoming the world's List of largest cities throughout history, largest city at the time. Since the 19th cen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Furtado
Joseph Furtado (7 April 1872 – 1 January 1947) was Portuguese poet and novelist who wrote in the English language. He has been praised as "one of Goa's best poets", albeit now "in the shadows, pushed to the margins and somewhat forgotten".Sudeshna Kar Barua, 'Joseph Furtado’s Poetry', ''Muse India'', 64 (November–December 2015), http://www.museindia.com/focuscontent.asp?issid=50&id=4279. Born in Goa, then part of Portuguese India, his writings are difficult to access today, and many anthologies overlook his contribution. Biography Furtado was the son of Vicente Cesar and Maria Conceicao de Rocha, Furtado was born in 1872 at Furtadovaddo, Pilerne, Bardes, in Portuguese Goa. A Goan Catholic, he began his education in Goa (then part of Portugal), but later attended boarding and arts schools in India. On 2 February 1897, he married Rosa Maria Amhimizia de Souza; among his sons was Philip Furtado. He worked, usually for railways companies, as a draughtsman, agent, and chief en ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Madras
Chennai, also known as Madras ( its official name until 1996), is the capital and largest city of Tamil Nadu, the southernmost state of India. It is located on the Coromandel Coast of the Bay of Bengal. According to the 2011 Indian census, Chennai is the sixth-most-populous city in India and forms the fourth-most-populous urban agglomeration. Incorporated in 1688, the Greater Chennai Corporation is the oldest municipal corporation in India and the second oldest in the world after London. Historically, the region was part of the Chola, Pandya, Pallava and Vijayanagara kingdoms during various eras. The coastal land which then contained the fishing village Madrasapattinam, was purchased by the British East India Company from the Nayak ruler Chennapa Nayaka in the 17th century. The British garrison established the Madras city and port and built Fort St. George, the first British fortress in India. The city was made the winter capital of the Madras Presidency, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sahitya Akademi
The Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters, is an organisation dedicated to the promotion of literature in the languages of India. Founded on 12 March 1954, it is supported by, though independent of the Indian government. Its office is located in Rabindra Bhavan near Mandi House in Delhi. The Sahitya Akademi organises national and regional workshops and seminars; provides research and travel grants to authors; publishes books and journals, including the ''Encyclopaedia of Indian Literature''; and presents the annual Sahitya Akademi Award of INR. 100,000 in each of the 24 languages it supports, as well as the List of Sahitya Akademi fellows, Sahitya Akademi Fellowship for lifetime achievement. The Sahitya Akademi Library is one of the largest multi-lingual libraries in India, with a rich collection of books on literature and allied subjects. It publishes two bimonthly literary journals: ''Indian Literature (journal), Indian Literature'' in English and ''Samkaleen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
