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1935 In Poetry
Links to nations or nationalities point to articles with information on that nation's poetry or literature. For example, "United Kingdom" links to English poetry and "India" links to Indian poetry. Events * June 3 – Canadian poetry, Canadian poet Charles G. D. Roberts is knighted.John Coldwell Adams,Sir Charles G.D. Roberts," ''Confederation Voices'', Canadian Poetry, UWO, Web, Mar. 2, 2011. * June 15 ** Gay English poetry, English poet W. H. Auden enters a marriage of convenience with Erika Mann. ** Premiere of T. S. Eliot's verse drama ''Murder in the Cathedral'' at Canterbury Cathedral in England. * American poetry, American poet George Oppen joins the Communist Party, where his organizing work will increasingly take precedence over his poetry; he writes no more verse until 1958 in poetry, 1958. * Picasso's poetry begins to be written. * Tomb of Hafez in Shiraz, Persian literature, Persia, is rebuilt. Works published in English Canadian poetry, Canada * Arthur Bourinot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kenneth Leslie
Kenneth Leslie (1892–1974) was a Canadian poet and songwriter, and an influential political activist in the United States during the 1930s and 1940s. He was the founder and editor of ''The Protestant Digest'' (later ''The Protestant''), which had a peak circulation of over 50,000 subscribers. A Christian socialist, he was given the nickname, "God's Red Poet". Life Leslie was born in Pictou, Nova Scotia, on October 31, 1892. His father, Robert Jamieson Leslie, was a shipping magnate and in 1905 became a member of the Quebec legislature, but drowned that year when one of his ships, ''The Lunenberg'', sank in a storm off the Magdalen Islands (which were part of his Quebec constituency).The Essential Kenneth Leslie " MightyApe.co.nz, Web, Apr. 15, 2011. Kenneth Leslie was raised by his moth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cecil Day-Lewis
Cecil Day-Lewis (or Day Lewis; 27 April 1904 – 22 May 1972), often written as C. Day-Lewis, was an Anglo-Irish poet and Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom from 1968 until his death in 1972. He also wrote mystery stories under the pseudonym Nicholas Blake, most of which feature the fictional detective Nigel Strangeways. During World War II, Day-Lewis worked as a publications editor in the UK government's Ministry of Information (United Kingdom), Ministry of Information and also served in the Musbury branch of the Home Guard (United Kingdom), Home Guard. He was the father of actor Daniel Day-Lewis, and documentary filmmaker and television chef Tamasin Day-Lewis. Life and work Day-Lewis was born in 1904 in Ballintubbert, Athy/Stradbally border, Queen's County (now known as County Laois), Ireland. He was the son of Frank Day-Lewis, a Church of Ireland rector of that parish, and Kathleen Blake (née Squires; died 1906). Some of his family were from England and the family had ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norman Cameron (poet)
Norman Cameron (1905–1953) was a Scottish poet, distantly related to Thomas Babington, Lord Macaulay. Between the two world wars, Cameron associated on Majorca with Robert Graves and Laura Riding. Later, as a part-time Fitzrovian, he worked closely with Dylan Thomas, Geoffrey Grigson, Ruthven Todd, Len Lye, John Aldridge RA, Alan Hodge and many others. He worked as a copywriter at J. Walter Thompson (being responsible for one classic campaign, ''Horlicks for night starvation'') and at Ogilvy, Benson & Mather. Life Born in Bombay, Cameron was the eldest of four children of a Presbyterian minister (chaplain of the Bombay Presidency) who died prematurely in 1913. Subsequently, he and his siblings returned with their mother to live in Edinburgh. For his education he went to Alton Burn Preparatory School in Nairn and Fettes College in Edinburgh, where, at only 11 years old, he was the youngest boy ever to be admitted to the main school. There he came under the influence of, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samuel Beckett
Samuel Barclay Beckett (; 13 April 1906 – 22 December 1989) was an Irish writer of novels, plays, short stories, and poems. Writing in both English and French, his literary and theatrical work features bleak, impersonal, and Tragicomedy, tragicomic episodes of life, often coupled with black comedy and literary nonsense. A major figure of Irish literature and one of the most influential writers of the 20th century, he is credited with transforming the genre of the modern theatre. Best remembered for his tragicomedy play ''Waiting for Godot'' (1953), he is considered to be one of the last Modernism, modernist writers, and a key figure in what Martin Esslin called the "Theatre of the Absurd." For his lasting literary contributions, Beckett received the 1969 Nobel Prize in Literature, "for his writing, which—in new forms for the novel and drama—in the destitution of modern man acquires its elevation." A resident of Paris for most of his adult life, Beckett wrote in both Frenc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Barker (poet)
George Granville Barker (26 February 1913 – 27 October 1991) was an English poet. He identified with the New Apocalyptics movement, which reacted against 1930s realism with mythical and surrealistic themes. His long liaison with Elizabeth Smart was the subject of her cult-novel '' By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept''. Life and work George Barker was born on 26 February 1913 in Loughton, Essex, a stone's throw from Epping Forest. His father, George Barker (1879–1965), who had worn many hats from a temporary police constable to a butler at Gray's Inn, brought to the family a history of military service, having risen to the rank of Major during World War I. Marion Frances (1881–1953), née Taaffe, his mother, hailed from Mornington, County Meath. It was in Chelsea, London, at the age of six months, that Barker began his urban odyssey. Barker’s youth was spent in the company of his younger brother Kit, who would later make his mark as a painter. Their upb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hyderabad, India
Hyderabad is the capital and largest city of the Indian state of Telangana. It occupies on the Deccan Plateau along the banks of the Musi River (India), Musi River, in the northern part of Southern India. With an average altitude of , much of Hyderabad is situated on hilly terrain around Lakes in Hyderabad, artificial lakes, including the Hussain Sagar lake, predating the city's founding, in the north of the city centre. According to the 2011 census of India, Hyderabad is the List of cities in India by population, fourth-most populous city in India with a population of residents within the city limits, and has a population of residents in the Hyderabad Metropolitan Region, metropolitan region, making it the List of metropolitan areas in India, sixth-most populous metropolitan area in India. With an output of 95 billion, Hyderabad has the sixth-largest urban economy in India. The Qutb Shahi dynasty's Muhammad Quli Qutb Shah established Hyderabad in 1591 to extend the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nizamat Jung
Nawab Sir Nizamat Jung Bahadur (22 April 1871 in Hyderabad State – 1955) was an Arab-Indian poet. Nizamuddin was the second son of the Late Nawab Rafath Yar Jung Bahadur (Moulvi Shaikh Ahmed Hussain), Subedar of Warangal, well known in his days as an ardent educational and social reformer and statesman of no mean order. Early life Nawab Sir Nizamath Jung, was educated at the Madrassa-i-Aizza, a school founded by his father in 1878, and proceeding to England in 1887 joined Trinity College, Cambridge, and took the degrees of B. A., LL. B. Honours ) in 1891 being the first Hyderabadi to achieve this. Later on he became a Barrister-at-Law, being called to the Bar from the Inner Temple in 1895 during his second visit to England. Career In 1896, he enrolled as an advocate at the Madras High Court. He joined the Nizam's service in 1897 as District Judge. Parbhani. In 1899, he was appointed city magistrate and in 1906, the under-secretary to the Legislative Department. Betwe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Govind Krishna Chettur
Govind may refer to: *An alternate spelling of Govinda, which is a name in Hinduism given to the god Krishna. It means "cowherd." *The name Govind is commonly used in Sikhism to refer to God. It is derived from "Gobinda" which means Preserver of the World in Panjābi. The name is used many times in the Guru Granth Sahib; for example: "Every day, hour and moment, I continually sing and speak of Govind, Govind, the Lord of the Universe." *Govind, more often written Gobind, is a name sometimes used for the Tenth Sikh Guru, Guru Gobind Singh. The Dasam Granth, which is the second Sikh Scripture written by the Tenth Guru, mentions the name twice: **On page 643, line 3: "O Lord! I have forsaken all other doors and have caught hold of only Thy door. O Lord! Thou has caught hold of my arm; I, Govind, am Thy slave, kindly take (care of me and) protect my honour. 864." **On page 728, line 4: "All the gods, taking permission of Krishna, bowed their heads and went back to their abodes; in the ... [...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] |
Francis Joseph Sherman
Francis Joseph Sherman (February 3, 1871 – June 15, 1926) was a Canadian poet. He published a number of books of poetry during the last years of the nineteenth century, including ''Matins'' and ''In Memorabilia Mortis'' (a collection of sonnets in memory of William Morris). Life Sherman was born in Fredericton, New Brunswick, the son of Alice Maxwell Myshrall and Louis Walsh Sherman. He attended Fredericton Collegiate School, where he came under the influence of headmaster George R. Parkin, "an Oxonian with an enthusiasm for the poetry of Rossetti, Swinburne, and, notably, Morris,"Karen Herbert,'There Was One Thing He Could Not See' William Morris in the Writing of Archibald Lampman and Francis Sherman," ''Canadian Poetry: Studies/Documents/Reviews'' No. 37, UWO, Web, May 11, 2011. who had also taught Bliss Carman and Charles G.D. Roberts. For a short time, Carman was one of Sherman's teachers.Tammy Armstrong,Francis Joseph Sherman," New Brunswick Literary Encyclopedia, ST ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
