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John Trumbull was an American poet and lawyer whose most famous work, the multi-part M’Fingal, picked him out as a notable political satirist at the time of the Wars of Independence. He was also a well-respected attorney in both Massachusetts and Connecticut as well as serving as a state legislator and judge. He was born on the 24th April 1750 in Watertown, Connecticut, although ...
Today’s news round-up features an article on the Saudi team qualifying for the 2018 World Cup and takes a look at the death row poets of San Quentin. Saudi Football Team Qualify for 2018 World Cup Saudi football fans were elated this week when their team won a qualifying place in the next World Cup, and they took to social media to offer up ...
Today we look at a story from Bethlehem of a literary landmark to be named honouring a poet to Japan, an article about a surprising winner of a haiku competition, and take a brief look at some of the big names who will be joining the line-up for the BBC festival in Hull. Literary Landmark to be named for Hilda Doolittle There are around ...
John Webster was an English writer of the Jacobean era who was around at the time of William Shakespeare, being a contemporary of the Bard in that he became a famous poet and playwright. Webster’s best known piece of work is the tragic play The Duchess of Malfi, and it is still performed to this day. Details of his early life are obscure but it ...
John Wilbye was an English Renaissance poet and one of the finest recorded composers of madrigal musical pieces. He was born some time in February or March, 1574 in the small Suffolk village of Brome, which is close to Diss. Being the son of a landowner and successful farmer his family circumstances were comfortable and he soon developed writing and musical skills that ...
John Wilson FRSE, also known as John Wilson of Elleray, was a Scottish writer, academic, literary critic and advocate. He made many contributions to a periodical called Blackwood"s Edinburgh Magazine using the pseudonym Christopher North. During the final two decades of his using the pseudonym Christopher North. During the final two decades of his life he served as professor of Moral Philosophy at Edinburgh University. He was ...
Today’s poetry round-up brings the sad news of the death of one of the biggest influences in American literary circles of recent times. We have just learned that poet John Ashbery has passed away. Awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1976 for his poetry collection, “Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror”, Ashbery died early on Sunday 3rd August at his home in Hudson, New York ...
We start this week on My Poetic Side with a round up that includes a tribute to the People’s Princess, a poem that led to marriage and the rise in a new type of poetry referred to as Trumpian verse. Lewis Hamilton Tribute to Princess Diana Emotion can be a powerful feeling and can lead to even the unlikeliest of people feeling the urge ...
Jónas Hallgrímsson, is one of the most well-known and respected Icelandic poets. He is considered to be one of the founding fathers of romanticism in Iceland. His poetry was heavily influenced by the iconic Icelandic scenery and he is accredited with introducing a number of foreign meters, including pentameters to Icelandic poetry. He was also an author and a naturalist, as well ...
In the last poetry round up of the week, we look at the very popular Pam Ayres and travel to an event in Jaffa that was organised to show support for a poet who has been under house arrest for the last two years. Pam Ayres – Live Performance Poetry comes in all different shapes and sizes, some poems rhyme, some are short and ...
