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John Edgell Rickword, MC was an English poet, journalist and literary critic who, remarkably, achieved most of his best work with only one eye. He had contracted a severe infection in his left eye at the age of 21 which resulted in it being removed. He is one of the many British war poets whose collected works from that period were published in ...
Today on My Poetic Side we bring you the story of a poet who has been subjected to online abuse and also look at the origin of the Star-Spangled Banner. Poet the Subject of Online Abuse by Students Award- winning Indigenous poet Ellen Van Neerven, has been subjected to a barrage of online abuse following the use of her poem “Mango” in the recent ...
John Byrom was a Fellow of the Royal Society, an English poet and composer of hymns, and a man also credited with the invention of a system of shorthand that was considered revolutionary in its time. In some reference books he is also known as John Byrom of Manchester or John Byrom of Kersal. Some accounts say that he was born in a half-timbered coaching inn ...
John Cunningham was an 18th century Scottish poet, actor and playwright, although he was actually born in Ireland, and lived most of his life in the north east of England. He was born some time during the year 1729 in Dublin to parents of Scottish origins. They had suffered a catastrophic swing in their social standing due to financial problems which resulted in bankruptcy. ...
John Buchan, was a distinguished writer of novels and poetry. He was better known for gripping adventure novels like The Thirty Nine Steps rather than his poetry, this story being adapted for the cinema and television screens on a number of occasions. As a politician he served the Scottish Unionist party for many years and, for the last five years of his life, ...
John Laurence Rentoul was an Irish-born Australian poet and Presbyterian minister. He was born on the 6th July 1846 in the small village of Garvagh in County Londonderry, the son of a clergyman. He was given a decent education culminating in the award of a Bachelors’ degree from Queen’s College, Belfast in 1867. He followed this with his Masters’ the following year, gaining first ...
Today at My Poetic Side we bring you the sad news that the literary world has lost another poet, Richard Wilbur passed away at the weekend. Two Times Pulitzer Prize Winner Richard Wilbur Passes Away Richard Wilbur, a translator and acclaimed American poet, who had a reputation as one of the finest poets of the 20th century passed away on Saturday 14th October ...
We start this week on My Poetic Side with two stories from the UK, the news that the Wordsworth Museum in Grasmere is hoping to make improvements in time for the 250th Anniversary of Wordworth’s birth, and a story of three violins made to commemorate World War one poets. Wordsworth Trust Plans Ahead April 2020 will mark the 250th Anniversary of the birth of ...
John Esten Cooke was a 19th century poet, novelist and American Civil War soldier. He was born on the 3rd November 1830 on the family estate in Winchester, Virginia. He had twelve siblings but only five of the children survived childhood. The family were forced to move to Richmond when John was ten due to their property having been destroyed by fire. As ...
In our final news round-up of the week, we bring you an update on the story of Jill Bialosky, the poet accused of plagiarism, a Syrian Poet who was a close contender for the Nobel Prize in Literature and the winner of the Nigerian Prize for Literature. Writers Offer Support to Jill Bialosky We recently brought you the story of Jill Bialosky, the poet ...
