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William Combe, The Dance of Life [4] George Croly, Paris in 1815 [4] John Hookham Frere, Prospectus and Specimen of an Intended National Work by William and Robert Whistlecraft Relating to King Arthur and his Round Table [cantos i, ii]; cantos iii and iv published 1818 [4] Felicia Dorothea Hemans, Modern Greece [4] John Keats, Poems, including ...
The World Doesn't End (1989) is a collection of prose poems by Charles ... Each poem is indicated in the collection's table of contents by the first several words of ...
A print of Samuel Johnson, based on a portrait by Joshua Reynolds, later used in the 1806 edition of the Lives of the Poets. Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets (1779–81), alternatively known by the shorter title Lives of the Poets, is a work by Samuel Johnson comprising short biographies and critical appraisals of 52 poets, most of whom lived during the eighteenth century.
Born in New York, Carryl became a second-generation successful businessman; and a stockbroker, who for 34 years starting in 1874 held a seat on the New York Stock Exchange. In 1869 he married Mary Wetmore. Their elder child was the poet and humorist Guy Wetmore Carryl. In 1882 Charles E. Carryl published his first work: Stock Exchange Primer. [1]
One crowded hour of glorious life Is worth an age without a name." For many years, the poem was incorrectly attributed to Mordaunt's contemporary, Sir Walter Scott. Scott had merely quoted a stanza of the poem at the beginning of Chapter 34 (Chapter XIII of Volume II) of his novel Old Mortality. [16]
They developed a large circle of literary friends and contacts; in particular, painters and life partners Charles Ricketts and Charles Shannon, near whom they settled in Richmond, London. [5] Robert Browning was a close friend of theirs — if also the source of their leaked identity — as well as Rudyard Kipling .
Charles Edwin Johnson (June 15, 1936 – January 7, 2024) was an American civil servant. He had served as Acting United States Secretary of Health and Human Services from January to April 2009 during the Obama presidency. [1] [2] Johnson was appointed by then President George W. Bush in
When D. J. was about two years old, his biological father had surgery to remove a minie ball, dying shortly thereafter. O'Malley's mother, Margaret, quickly married Charles H. White, also a soldier, giving her children his last name. The family spent several years at Army bases in Kansas, Wyoming, and Montana.