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John Richardson (20 August 1817 – 30 April 1886) was an English poet. Living near Keswick all his life, he contributed to local cultural life, and published poetry, some in the local dialect. Life
Dix, as the son of poet John Ross Dix and named after Thomas Chatterton, would regularly write Christian poetry in his spare time. [4] Dix wrote "As with Gladness Men of Old" on 6 January 1859 during a months-long recovery from an extended illness, unable to attend that morning's Epiphany service at church.
Epiphany in literature refers generally to a visionary moment when a character has a sudden insight or realization that changes their understanding of themselves or their comprehension of the world. The term has a more specialized sense as a literary device distinct to modernist fiction. [ 1 ]
"Deep in the darkness a starlight is gleaming" was written by Jan Berry, a Baptist and United Reformed Church minister. [1] The hymn came about after a United Reformed Church minister approached her and stated that they could not find an appropriate hymn for Epiphany that covered the massacre of the Holy Innocents by King Herod at the end of the Epiphany timeline. [1]
Until recently, Epiphany had been "more lavishly celebrated than Christmas" and was also known by Italians as "Little Christmas". [14] "Poor Befana, she is a refugee," Pope Paul VI lamented in a public speech, "She seeks shelter now on the first Sunday after the feast which was her own." [37] The public holiday was reinstated in 1985.
Birthday Letters is a 1998 poetry collection by English poet and children's writer Ted Hughes.Released only months before Hughes's death, the collection won multiple prestigious literary awards, including the Whitbread Book of the Year, the Forward Poetry Prize for Best Collection, and the T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry in 1999. [1]
In 2001, Jan Richman and Beth Lisick presented a benefit "Poetry & Pizza," by 9x9 Industries. She worked at SF Gate, the online version of the San Francisco Chronicle. [2] She read at Edinburgh Castle, [3] and Writers With Drinks. Her poems have appeared in The Nation, [4] Ploughshares, Comet, Other Magazine, The Bloomsbury Review, Luna, [5]
The Night of the Big Wind (Irish: Oíche na Gaoithe Móire) was a powerful European windstorm that swept across what was then the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, beginning on the afternoon of 6 January 1839, causing severe damage to property and several hundred deaths. 20 to 25% of houses in north Dublin were damaged or destroyed, and 42 ships were wrecked. [1]