Stephen Oliver: Shorter secular vocal works 1965-1987
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Keats, John, 1795-1821
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Gilbert, Bernard, 1882-1927
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Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850
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British poet. From the description of Letters, 1827 Jan. 12-1836 Feb. 20. (Boston Athenaeum). WorldCat record id: 315953362 Wordsworth, English poet. From the description of [Letters, 1826-1848] / Wm. Wordsworth. (Smith College). WorldCat record id: 501844796 Wordsworth was an English poet. From the description of Miscellaneous papers, 1801-1853. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 122372656 From the guide to the William Wordsw...
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Girdlestone, Margaret, active 1920, writer
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Hunt, Leigh, 1784-1859
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English essayist and poet. From the description of [Letters] / Leigh Hunt. [1848-1856] (Smith College). WorldCat record id: 234302986 From the description of Criticism on female beauty : notes, ca. 1824. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122510755 Leigh Hunt moved from Chelsea to Kensington in 1840. From the description of Leigh Hunt, letter : Kensington, England : Autograph note signed, [1840?] Nov. 22. (University of California, Berkeley). WorldCat record...
Skelton, John, 1460?-1529
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Severn, Joseph, 1793-1879
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Artist and friend of John Keats. From the description of Letter : Pimlico, to W. Wyon, [18--] Mar. 8. (Bryn Mawr College). WorldCat record id: 28295849 Severn was an English painter and friend of the poet John Keats. Elizabeth (Montgomerie) Severn was his wife and Walter Severn was his son. From the description of Papers, 1821-1899. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 80562990 From the guide to the Joseph Severn papers, 1821-1899., (Houghton Librar...
Sayers, Dorothy L. (Dorothy Leigh), 1893-1957
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Byron, George Gordon Byron, baron, 1788-1824
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British poet. From the description of George Gordon Byron, Baron Byron papers, 1812-1819. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79452083 English Romantic poet and satirist. From the description of George Gordon Byron Collection, 1642-1968 (bulk 1798-1830). (Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (HRC); University of Texas at Austin). WorldCat record id: 145405980 Major George Gordon de Luna Byron, alias de Gibler, Spanish-born forger of British Romantic litera...
Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822
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Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822), poet, was born at Field Place, Warnham, on 4 August 1792, and attended the Sion House academy at Brentford, and then Eton. He entered University College, Oxford, in 1810, but was sent down the following year after writing the pamphlet The necessity of atheism . He eloped to Scotland with Harriet Westbrook, whom he married in Edinburgh in 1811. Shelley spent 1812 in Ireland, addressing meetings and writing pamphlets. In 1814 he left his wife and fled to the conti...
Colum, Padraic, 1881-1972
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Jago, Richard, 1715-1781
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English poet. From the description of Autograph letter signed : [n.p.], to Mr. Pearson, at Southam, Warwicks, "Friday Noon" [n.d.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270871134 Epithet: poet British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000214.0x000285 ...
Monro, Harold, 1879-1932
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Harold Monro was born in Brussels to Scottish parents, and educated at Cambridge. He wrote and published poetry, and founded the influential magazine, Poetry Review. He is best remembered for opening the Poetry Bookshop in London, where he published new collections of poems and created a hospitable environment for poets and readers. He also served in World War I, returning to the Bookshop in 1919. A modest poet, Monro led a troubled personal life, but aided and befriended many notable 20th centu...
Herrick, Robert, 1591-1674
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Waller Edmund 1606-1687
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Oliver, Stephen, 1950-1992
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Hemans, Mrs., 1793-1835
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Felicia Hemans was one of the first successful female English career poets. For a brief time, she was the most popular and acclaimed poet writing in England. Mrs. Hemans embodies a significant transition in English poetry from Romantic lyricism to the moral and patriotic themes prevalent in the Victorian era. From the description of Felicia Hemans letters and poems, 1825, n.d. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 50039596 Felicia Dorothea Browne Hem...
Lewis, D. B. Wyndham (Dominic Bevan Wyndham), 1891-1969
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Epithet: alias `Timothy Shy' British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000410.0x0003be D. B. Wyndham Lewis (1891-1969) was a British journalist, author, and biographer known for his humorous newspaper articles and biographies. Lewis was born on March 9, 1891 in Southport, Lancashire, England to David John Lewis and Cecelia (Mayer) Agnes. His birth name was Llewelyn Bevan Wyndham Lewis, but he cha...
Björnson, Maria, 1949-2002, costume and set designer
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Cummings, E.E. (Edward Estlin), 1894-1962
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E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1894. While at Harvard, he delivered a daring commencement address on modernist artistic innovations, thus announcing the direction his own work would take. In 1917, after working briefly for a mail-order publishing company, the only regular employment in his career, Cummings volunteered to serve in the Norton-Harjes Ambulance group in France. Here he and a friend were imprisoned (on false grounds) for three months in a Frenc...
Webster, John, 1580?-1625?
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Cowley, Abraham, 1618-1667
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English poet. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Paris, to Mr. Long, 1650 Jan. 1. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270526766 From the description of Autograph endorsement and signature : [n.p.], 1660 Dec. 29. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270512553 Epithet: poet British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000471.0x00028d ...
Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852
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Thomas Moore, Irish poet and composer. Moore was a friend and acquaintance of many of the English Romantics, including Lord Byron. He met Mary Shelley in the late 1820s, while researching his biography of Byron. From the description of Thomas Moore manuscript material : 220 items, 1811-1846 (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 76835859 Thomas Moore, Irish poet and composer. From the guide to the Thomas Moore manuscript material : 254 items, 1811-1846, (...
Gardiner, Marguerite alias Margaret, 1789-1849, 2nd wife of Charles, Earl of Blessington, author
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Gellhorn, Peter
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Opera administrator. From the description of Typewritten letter signed, dated : London, 8 February 1969, to Joseph Chouinard, 1969 Feb. 8. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270913899 Epithet: conductor, composer, pianist and teacher British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000975.0x00015a ...
