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Pauline B. Barrington (born Pauline V. Bucknor; July 11, 1876 – December 5, 1956) [1] was an American writer recognized for her 1916 poem "Education", which protested American involvement in World War I. "Education" was included in the first anthology dedicated exclusively to women's poetry from World War I, Scars Upon My Heart (1981).
Harner's poem quickly gained traction as a eulogy and was read at funerals in Kansas and Missouri. It was soon reprinted in the Kansas City Times and the Kansas City Bar Bulletin. [1]: 426 [2] Harner earned a degree in industrial journalism and clothing design at Kansas State University. [3] Several of her other poems were published and ...
Alan Charles Brownjohn was born in London on 28 July 1931. He was educated at Merton College, Oxford. [1] He taught in schools between 1957 and 1965. [2]In 1960 he married the writer Shirley Toulson [3] and in 1962 both were elected as Labour councillors in the Wandsworth Metropolitan Borough Council, [4] and Brownjohn stood as the Labour Party candidate for Richmond (Surrey) in the 1964 ...
Thomas J. Hudner Jr. received the Medal of Honor for his unsuccessful attempt to rescue Brown. "Get back ... I'll cover you." [258] — John U. D. Page, United States Army officer and Medal of Honor recipient (11 December 1950), prior to being killed in action during the Battle of Chosin Reservoir in the Korean War "Say goodbye to my wife and ...
Kathleen Shirley Toulson (née Dixon; 20 May 1924 – 23 September 2018) was an English writer, poet, journalist and local politician. [2]She attended Prior's Field School and worked with the Auxiliary Territorial Service during World War II and married Norman Toulson, an army lieutenant, in 1944: they divorced in 1951.
Charles Armitage Brown (14 April 1787 – 5 June 1842) was a close friend of the poet John Keats, as well as a friend of artist Joseph Severn, Leigh Hunt, Thomas Jefferson Hogg, Walter Savage Landor and Edward John Trelawny.
After college, Greenfield began writing poetry and songs in the 1950s while working in a civil service job. In 1962, after years of submitting her work, her first poem was finally accepted for publication. In 1972, she published the first of her 48 children's books, including picture books, novels, poetry and biographies.
Mark Halliday (born 1949 in Ann Arbor, Michigan) [1] is an American poet, professor and critic. He is author of seven collections of poetry, most recently "Losers Dream On" (University of Chicago Press, 2018), "Thresherphobe" (University of Chicago Press, 2013) and Keep This Forever (Tupelo Press, 2008).