...This chapter re-examines the notion of Lydgate as a ‘prince-pleaser’ laureate of the Lancastrian dynasty, exploring the involvement of his patron, Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester and brother of Henry V, in the composition of the Fall. Humphrey's personal political ambitions and his...

...There were three poets laureate in the last decade of the century: John Dryden, Thomas Shadwell, and Nahum Tate, all of whom had begun their careers writing for the stage. Poets active during this time included Anne Finch, who was circulating her verses in manuscript among friends and compiling...

...This chapter discusses the last decade of Still’s life during which he published five books, including The Wolfpen Notebooks; River of Earth celebrated its 50^th anniversary; and Still was named Poet Laureate of Kentucky. He made an important new...

...This chapter details how Roger Martin du Gard became the 1937 Nobel laureate for literature. Roger's selection was based on the totality of Les Thibault and not because his L'Eté 1914 resonated so strongly in a Europe once again threatened with war. In addition...

... ’ ( 1962 ) 22 Journal of Central European Affairs 286–307. 1146 Alford, Roger P ‘ The Nobel Effect: Nobel Peace Prize Laureates as International Norm Entrepreneurs ’ ( 2008 ) 49 Virginia Journal of International Law 61–134. Biedermann, Edelgard (ed) Chère baronne et amie, cher...

... George Bernard Glasier John Bruce Symons Arthur Woburn Buildings Housman A E Percy Thomas Bishop of Dromore Stanford Sir Charles Villiers Coleridge Samuel Taylor James William Magee W K ‘John Eglinton’ Wordsworth William experiment myth folklore novel ballad bardism prophecy laureate...

.... Griffin, Dustin H. , Patriotism and Poetry in Eighteenth-Century Britain (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2005 ). Heaney, Peter F. , “ The Laureate Dunces and the Death of the Panegyric, ” Early Modern Literary Studies , 5, no. 1 (May 1999), 4.1–24...

...The Earl of Rochester’s double-edged salutation of Edmund Waller as ‘for the Bays designed’ calls attention to the ambiguous status of the laureateship in the early Restoration, a time when the purpose, opportunities, and selection of the laureate were all, apparently, available for reconsideration...

...: over a million babies have now been born to students who met a partner from a different EU country as a result of the Erasmus programme. Bologna programme Erasmus HNCs Kaplan Laureate Manipal University Newton Fund Sheffield Sorbonne World Bank ‘High, high above the North Pole, on the first...

... as home was nominated to be America's poet laureate. This book examines Levertov's interviews, essays, and self-revelatory poetry to discern the conflict and torment she both endured and created in her attempts to deal with her own psyche, her relationships with family, friends, lovers, colleagues...

...This article re-examines John Skelton’s “laureate poetics” in the light of his poetic practice. Whereas, over the past twenty years, a consensus has emerged that Skelton’s work is best understood as an attempt to reconcile a poet’s potential roles of court spokesperson and inspired vates...

... Dryden was removed from his post as Poet Laureate. Glorious Revolution King James Queen Mary of Modena protestants William and Mary exile St. Germain Jane Barker Anne Finch John Dryden Poet Laureate 1688, November 15. The good prince of Orange, King William the Third, came over out of Holland...

... poetry that is in the process of attempting to establish its ‘own’ narrative about an event, counter to ‘official’ narratives. The chapter continues by discussing the role of the poet laureate, with particular attention paid to Ted Hughes, who held the position for the majority of the 84-5 strike...

...This book deals with the complex interface between literature and life through the prism of the lives and works of three poets: the German-Jewish poet and Holocaust survivor, Paul Celan (1920–1970); the Leningrad native, U.S. poet laureate, and Nobel Prize winner, Joseph Brodsky (1940–1996...

...This introductory essay by is a happy reminiscence by distinguished Nobel Laureate, Hideki Yukawa, about how his early childhood reading of the Zhuangzi and other philosophical canons has been an inspiration to him in revisioning assumptions that have guided professional thinking in elementary...

... mission to bring her work before a wide reading public;• Genevieve Taggard and the other editors of the high-art little magazine Measure took Millay as their unofficial poet laureate; Countee Cullen, favorite son of the Harlem Renaissance, wrote his undergraduate thesis on Millay and pursued his...

...0 25 03 2004 So wrote the Poet Laureate, Alfred Austin, in 1900. These lines capture the tone of an era in which British people, from all classes and social backgrounds, threw themselves enthusiastically behind a succession of small and medium-sized wars in the belief that they were carrying...

...0 06 05 1999 Alfred Tennyson succeeded William Wordsworth as poet laureate in 1850. Early in his career, during a period of lyrical experimentation, he wrote son­ nets; most were published in his 1833 volume Poems. He would go on to write the poems for which he is most admired, including...

.... This discourse is brought to bear for Coleridge by the figure of Robert Southey, his brother-in-law, and also the Poet Laureate. By arguing that Southey in his laureate writings was more influenced by Jonson's personal and poetic example than has been previously realised (and was, in turn, measured against them...

... and that of the poeta vate — as the ‘poet laureate’ was called in Italy. In nineteenth-century Italy political unification was accompanied by the consequent task of nation-building; this process turned out to be far more complex than anticipated and involved politicians and intellectuals alike in the common...