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Hayes was born in Ladysmith, Wisconsin, and attended elementary school in Normal, Illinois. [1] After receiving a bachelor's degree in piano performance magna cum laude from Baylor University in 1975, [2] he entered a career in composing and arranging music. [3] Hayes moved to Kansas City in the late 1970s. [1]
He attended Mater Christi High School (now St. John’s Prep) in Astoria, graduating in 1967. He did his undergraduate work at Fairfield University and attended workshops at The Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church in-the-Bowery, where he was a student of Dick Gallup and Lewis MacAdams.
A replacement agent ultimately made the property pay, but these financial difficulties, combined with poor physical health, had a detrimental effect on Bayly's creativity. During a trip to France to convalesce, he was able to recover sufficiently to write the poem The Bridesmaid, which drew a flattering letter from Sir Robert Peel.
James Milton Hayes MC (1884, in Ardwick – 1940, in Nice), known as J. Milton Hayes, was an English actor and poet, best known for his 1911 dramatic monologue "The Green Eye of the Yellow God", much parodied by his contemporary Stanley Holloway and later by The Goon Show. He also wrote and performed many other monologues.
Orson Welles read the poem on an episode of The Radio Reader's Digest (11 October 1942), [9] [10] Command Performance (21 December 1943), [11] and The Orson Welles Almanac (31 May 1944). [12] High Flight has been a favourite poem amongst both aviators and astronauts. It is the official poem of the Royal Canadian Air Force and the Royal Air Force.
John Haynes (May 1, 1594 – c. January 9, 1653/4 [1]), also sometimes spelled Haines, was a colonial magistrate and one of the founders of the Connecticut Colony. He served one term as governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony and was the first governor of Connecticut, ultimately serving eight separate terms.
James Russell Lowell (/ ˈ l oʊ əl /; February 22, 1819 – August 12, 1891) was an American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat.He is associated with the fireside poets, a group of New England writers who were among the first American poets that rivaled the popularity of British poets.
Many of Keegan's ballads appeared in Dolman's Magazine; some are contained in Edward Hayes's Ballads of Ireland, and in the compilation The Harp of Erin.At the time of his death Keegan was preparing a collected edition of his poems, which never, however, appeared.