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John Byrom, John Byrom of Kersal, or John Byrom of Manchester FRS (29 February 1692 – 26 September 1763) was an English poet, the inventor of a revolutionary system of shorthand and later a significant landowner.
"Ordinary People" is a song by American singer John Legend, released by GOOD Music and Columbia Records on April 7, 2005 as the second single from his debut studio album, Get Lifted (2004). Written and produced by Legend and fellow singer will.i.am , the song is a ballad discussing an emotionally tumultuous relationship.
Godfrey John was born and grew up in Wales. He served in the Royal Air Force, and graduated from Cambridge University, [1] where he was boxing team captain and a "light blue", and was a British amateur heavyweight boxing champion. For more than 40 years, poems and essays by John were published in the Christian Science Monitor. [2]
Holograph manuscript of Gray's "Stanzas Wrote in a Country Church-Yard". The poem most likely originated in the poetry that Gray composed in 1742. William Mason, in Memoirs, discussed his friend Gray and the origins of Elegy: "I am inclined to believe that the Elegy in a Country Church-yard was begun, if not concluded, at this time [August 1742] also: Though I am aware that as it stands at ...
Beginning in the 20th century, several historical novels appeared taking as their subject various episodes in Donne's life. His courtship of Anne More is the subject of Elizabeth Gray Vining's Take Heed of Loving Me: A novel about John Donne (1963) [46] and Maeve Haran's The Lady and the Poet (2010). [47]
When in school he used to write verses of poetry on slips of paper and went on to have his first of many poems published in 1863 at the age of 16 years. He is best remembered in Callan for his poem "The Calm Avonree", where a plaque on the Town Hall building is dedicated to the patriot poet.
Milton republished the poem in his 1645 collection Poems of Mr. John Milton. To this version is added a brief prose preface: In this MONODY the Author bewails a learned Friend, unfortunately drowned in his passage from Chester on the Irish seas, 1637. And by occasion foretells the ruin of our corrupted clergy, then in their height. [28]
Il Penseroso ("the thinker") is a poem by John Milton, first found in the 1645/1646 quarto of verses The Poems of Mr. John Milton, both English and Latin, published by Humphrey Moseley. It was presented as a companion piece to L'Allegro , a vision of poetic mirth .