Edward James Hughes Papers 18 Dec 1890-20 Mar [2005]

Heaney, Seamus, 1939-2013

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Seamus Heaney, poet, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, was born in April 1939, the eldest of nine children. His father owned and worked a small farm in County Derry in Northern Ireland. At the age of twelve he won a scholarship to St. Columb's College, a Catholic boarding school situated in the city of Derry, From 1957 he lived in Belfast, moving in 1972 to the Irish Republic, where he now lives. His poems first came to public attention in the mid-1960s when he was active as one of a gro...

Yehuda, Amichaï, 1924-2000

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Epithet: poet British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000472.0x00029b Yehuda Amichai (1924-2000), poet and author. From the description of Yehuda Amichai papers, 1929-1999. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702181389 ...

Gunn, Thom

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Thom Gunn was born in Gravesend, Kent, England, in 1929. His first book of poems, "Fighting Terms," was published in 1954, and Gunn was awarded a creative writing fellowship at Stanford University in the same year. From 1958 to 1966 and 1973 to 1990 he taught at the University of California, Berkeley. He received numerous awards during his life, most notably the MacArthur Fellowship for lifetime achievement in poetry in 1993. Gunn passed away in San Francisco, California, in 2004. Fr...

Baskin, Leonard, 1922-2000

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Sculptor and graphic artist; Leeds, Mass. and Devon, England. b. 1922, in New Brunswick, N.J. d. Northampton, Mass., June 3, 2000, age 77. Worked on FDR memorial in Washington, DC. Studied at Yale Univ. Founded the Gehenna Press in 1942. Taught at Smith College, in Northampton, MA, 1953-1974, and Hampshire College, in Amherst, MA, 1984-1994. From the description of Oral history interview with Leonard Baskin, 1969 Apr. 17. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 220184...

Taufer, Veno, b 1933

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Feuer, Donya, b 1934

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Buzan, Tony, b 1942

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Weissbort, Daniel, b 1935

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Brook, Peter Stephen Paul, b 1925

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Sillitoe, Alan

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Redgrove, Peter

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British poet. From the description of Poems written in a printed book, 1971 Feb. 23. (Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (HRC); University of Texas at Austin). WorldCat record id: 122481673 Peter William Redgrove, the poet, writer, and playwright, was born on 2 January 1932 and died on 16 June 2003. He was a Gregory Fellow in Poetry at Leeds University 1962-1965, and was awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry in 1996. For fuller details of his life and achievements s...

Hughes, Olwyn, b 1928

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Shuttle, Penelope, b 1947

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Zabolot︠s︡kiĭ, N. (Nikolaĭ), 1903-1958

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Nikolay Zabolotsky (Николай Алексеевич Заболоцкий) was a Russian poet, writer and translator who was born in Kazan in 1903. He was one of the founders of the avant garde group OBERIU in 1928 and suffered under Stalin's purges during the 1930s spending five years in Siberia. Epithet: poet, writer and translator British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000472.0x0002a3 ...

Jószef, Attila, 1905-1937

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Fainlight, Ruth, b 1931

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Pilinszky, János

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János Pilinszky was a Hungarian poet who wrote about his experiences including the German concentration camps, which he witnessed during the Second World War. Pilinszky's poetry was translated into a number of languages. Ted Hughes and János Csokits translated his poetry into English. Epithet: poet British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000472.0x00029d ...

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny, b 1933

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Godwin, Fay.

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Fay Godwin (neé Simmonds) was born in Berlin in 1931, the daughter of Sydney Simmonds, a British Consular official and his wife, Stella, an American artist. She met Anthony James Wylie (Tony) Godwin when she was working at John Murray publishers and they married in 1961. The couple had two sons, Nicholas and Jeremy and Godwin's interest in photography began as a hobby during the 1960s. When she divorced in 1969 Godwin decided to become professional photographer. Godwin'...