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Will Harris (born 1989) is a London-based poet of Chinese Indonesian and British heritage. His debut poetry book RENDANG won the Forward Prize for Best First Collection [1] and was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize 2021. [2] His poem SAY was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Single Poem in 2018. [1]
Wood received her B.A. from East Texas State University and her M.A. from University of Texas at Arlington before continuing her graduate studies at Rice University.. She taught high school and worked as an editor and writer for The Washington Post [4] and magazines.
P. G. Wodehouse refers to The Ingoldsby Legends in his novel A Prefect's Uncle (1903), comparing his title character to the lady in the earlier work "who didn't mind death, but who couldn't stand pinching". Ngaio Marsh refers to The Ingoldsby Legends in Death in a White Tie. Troy tells about coming across Lord Tomnoddy and the hanging and the ...
Harris is best remembered today for his Anglican church music, though during his lifetime he was mainly known for his achievements as a choir-trainer.His most famous works are two anthems for unaccompanied double choir: Faire is the heaven (1925), a setting of Edmund Spenser's poem "An Hymne of Heavenly Beautie"; [8] and Bring us, O Lord God, a setting of a poem by John Donne first heard in ...
Writer David Malouf is quoted in Harris' obituary: [9] One of the most talented poets of his generation. He is the subject of a poem by Tim Thorne, The Living Are Left with Imagined Lives, [10] and also Et in Arcadia Ego. [11] He is a subject of a poem in Weeping for Lost Babylon by Eric Beach. [12]
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Blake's painting The Great Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed in Sun (1806–1809) and the poem "Auguries of Innocence" both play a prominent role in Thomas Harris' novel Red Dragon , in which the killer Francis Dolarhyde has an obsession with the painting. Dolarhyde imagines himself 'becoming' a being like the Red Dragon featured in the paintings.
Sir Theodore Wilson Harris (24 March 1921 – 8 March 2018) was a Guyanese writer. He initially wrote poetry, but subsequently became a novelist and essayist. His writing style is often said to be abstract and densely metaphorical, and his subject matter wide-ranging.