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John Anthony Ciardi (/ ˈ tʃ ɑːr d i / CHAR-dee; Italian:; June 24, 1916 – March 30, 1986) was an American poet, translator, and etymologist.While primarily known as a poet and translator of Dante's Divine Comedy, he also wrote several volumes of children's poetry, pursued etymology, contributed to the Saturday Review as a columnist and long-time poetry editor, directed the Bread Loaf ...
William had been servant to John Islip, Abbot of Westminster, and a banner bearer at Islip's funeral 1532, [4] and later bought lands in Kent. The name "Chidiock" , pronounced ‘chidik’, as derived from his father's patron, Chidiock Paulet , originates from a Paulet ancestor, Sir John de Chideock, who owned land at Chideock , a village in ...
Tabb was born in Amelia County, Virginia, on March 22, 1845. [1] One of his brothers was William Barksdale Tabb, a lawyer and officer in the Confederate States Army. [2]A member of one of the state's oldest and wealthiest families, Tabb served on a blockade runner for the Confederacy during the Civil War, and spent eight months in a Union prison camp, where he formed a lifelong friendship with ...
John Montague (28 February 1929 − 10 December 2016) was an Irish poet. Born in the United States, he was raised in Ulster in the north of Ireland. He published a number of volumes of poetry, two collections of short stories and two volumes of memoir. He was one of the best-known Irish contemporary poets.
John of Damascus or John Damascene, born Yūḥana ibn Manṣūr ibn Sarjūn, [a] was an Assyrian Christian monk, priest, hymnographer, and apologist.He was born and raised in Damascus c. AD 675 or AD 676; the precise date and place of his death is not known, though tradition places it at his monastery, Mar Saba, near Jerusalem, on 4 December AD 749. [5]
The Spiritual Canticle (Spanish: Cántico Espiritual) is one of the poetic works of the Spanish mystical poet Saint John of the Cross.. Saint John of the Cross, a Carmelite friar and priest during the Counter-Reformation, was arrested and jailed by the Calced Carmelites in 1577 at the Carmelite Monastery of Toledo because of his close association with Saint Teresa of Ávila in the Discalced ...
Newman described the writing as "the most arduous work" and "one of the most terrible trials" he had ever had, and said that he had been "constantly in tears" while writing. He frequently rewrote sections to shorten them, and spent long hours writing, quipping that "[his] fingers have been walking nearly 20 miles a day". [ 22 ]
Henry Edward Manning (15 July 1808 – 14 January 1892) was an English prelate of the Catholic Church, and the second Archbishop of Westminster from 1865 until his death in 1892. [2] He was ordained in the Church of England as a young man, but converted to Catholicism in the aftermath of the Gorham judgement .