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Kit Wright FRSL (born 17 June 1944) is an English writer who is the author of more than twenty-five books, for both adults and children, [1] and the winner of awards including an Arts Council Writers' Award, the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, the Hawthornden Prize, the Alice Hunt Bartlett Prize and the Heinemann Award.
An ode (from Ancient Greek: ᾠδή, romanized: ōidḗ) is a type of lyric poetry, with its origins in Ancient Greece. Odes are elaborately structured poems praising or glorifying an event or individual, describing nature intellectually as well as emotionally.
An Ode to the Queen: 1877-09: More Poetic Gems: 1962: Queen Victoria: An Ode to the Queen on her Jubilee Year: 1887-06: Poetic Gems [First Series] 1890: Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria: Annie Marshall the Foundling: 1888-02: Poetic Gems [Second Series] 1891 Attempted Assassination of the Queen: 1882-05: Poetic Gems [First Series] 1890 ...
Book 1 consists of 38 poems. The opening sequence of nine poems are all in a different metre, with a tenth metre appearing in 1.11. It has been suggested that poems 1.12–1.18 form a second parade, this time of allusions to or imitations of a variety of Greek lyric poets: Pindar in 1.12, Sappho in 1.13, Alcaeus in 1.14, Bacchylides in 1.15, Stesichorus in 1.16, Anacreon in 1.17, and Alcaeus ...
Robert Nugent, 1st Earl Nugent, An Ode to Mankind, published anonymously [1] William Shenstone, The Judgment of Hercules [1] Leonard Welsted, The Summum Bonum; or, Wistest Philosophy [1] John Wesley and Charles Wesley, A Collection of Psalms and Hymns (see also Hymns and Sacred Poems 1739) [1] William Whitehead, The Danger of Writing Verse
Absence. A Farewell Ode on quitting School for Jesus College, Cambridge. A Farewell Ode on quiting school for Jesus College, Cambridge. "Where graced with many a classic spoil" 1791 1794, October 11 Happiness. "On wide or narrow scale shall Man" 1791 1834 A Wish. Written in Jesus Wood, Feb. 10, 1792. Written in Jesus Wood, February 10, 1792
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Cyril Scott. Cyril Meir Scott (27 September 1879 – 31 December 1970) was an English composer, writer, poet, and occultist. He created around four hundred musical compositions including piano, violin, cello concertos, symphonies, and operas.