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Norman Alexander MacCaig (14 November 1910 – 23 January 1996) was a Scottish poet and teacher. His poetry, in modern English , is known for its humour, simplicity of language and great popularity. [ 1 ]
Norman Williams (New Zealand cricketer) (1864-1928), New Zealand cricketer; Norman Williams (RAAF officer), Royal Australian Air Force officer; Norman Williams (politician), Vermont attorney and politician; Norman Williams (producer) (1918–2010), British actor and film producer; N. P. Williams (Norman Powell Williams), Anglo-Catholic theologian
A memorial to Wace was set up in his native island of Jersey Wace presents his Roman de Rou to Henry II in this illustration from 1824. Wace (c. 1110 [1] – after 1174 [2]), sometimes referred to as Robert Wace, [3] was a Medieval Norman poet, who was born in Jersey and brought up in mainland Normandy (he tells us in the Roman de Rou that he was taken as a child to Caen), ending his career as ...
Norman Williams was a barrister, while his brother Maurice Williams was a full-time journalist and writer. [3]The brothers' writing collaboration began in 1934. In 1940 they succeeded Fred Melville as editors of the National Philatelic Society's journal The Stamp Lover which they edited until 1964.
Norman and Rose Lindsay c. 1920, photographed by Harold Cazneaux. Lindsay was born in Creswick, Victoria, the son of Anglo-Irish surgeon Robert Charles William Alexander Lindsay (1843–1915) and Jane Elizabeth Lindsay (1848–1932), daughter of Rev. Thomas Williams, Wesleyen missionary, from Creswick.
J. J. Jameson (born Norman A. Porter Jr.; c. 1940 – 2023) was a self-proclaimed poet and activist, who was active in Chicago, Illinois, from the mid-1980s until March 2005. His work was marked by an ironic and humorous style.
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The poems contemplate martial, masculine culture, fate, and old age from a critical standpoint. As with the other so-called 'saga englynion’ (pre-eminently Canu Urien and Canu Heledd), there is considerable uncertainty and debate as to how the poems of Canu Llywarch might originally have been performed. It is usually assumed that they must ...