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Stephen Toussaint (born 22 March 1965) is a British actor and writer. He first gained prominence through his role in the ITV crime drama The Knock (1994–2000). Currently, he plays Lord Corlys Velaryon in the HBO fantasy series House of the Dragon .
1941 in poetry – Death of James Joyce, Marina Tsvetaeva; Birth of Bob Dylan, Derek Mahon; 1942 in poetry – Birth of William Matthews, Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin; Death of Konstantin Balmont; 1943 in poetry – Death of Stephen Vincent Benét, William Soutar in Perth; Birth of Jim Morrison; T. S. Eliot's Four Quartets published as a whole
A print of Samuel Johnson, based on a portrait by Joshua Reynolds, later used in the 1806 edition of the Lives of the Poets. Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets (1779–81), alternatively known by the shorter title Lives of the Poets, is a work by Samuel Johnson comprising short biographies and critical appraisals of 52 poets, most of whom lived during the eighteenth century.
They asked her to write an article about growing up in the 1960s, which was published under the title "An 18-Year-Old Looks Back on Life" [6] in the magazine's April 23, 1972, issue. After the article was published, Maynard received a letter from fiction writer J. D. Salinger , then 53 years old, who complimented her writing and warned her of ...
Daguerreotype portrait of Stevenson as a child Stevenson's childhood home in Heriot Row. Stevenson was born at 8 Howard Place, Edinburgh, Scotland, on 13 November 1850 to Thomas Stevenson (1818–1887), a leading lighthouse engineer, and his wife, Margaret Isabella (born Balfour, 1829–1897).
Stephen Elliot Dunn (June 24, 1939 – June 24, 2021) was an American poet and educator who authored twenty-one collections of poetry. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his 2000 collection, Different Hours, and received an Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters .
Stephen Mesmin Alexis (1889–1962) was a Haitian novelist and diplomat. Born in Gonaïves, Alexis served as Haiti's ambassador to the United Kingdom and represented Haiti at the United Nations. He is best known for his novel Le Négre Masqué (1933). He is also credited with writing the most complete account of Toussaint Louverture's life.
April 15 – César Vallejo, Peruvian poet (b. 1892) April 16 – Steve Bloomer, English footballer (b. 1874) April 17 – Viktor Graf von Scheuchenstuel, Austro-Hungarian general (b. 1857) April 21. Sultan Majid Afandiyev, Soviet revolutionary, statesman (b. 1887) Sir Muhammad Iqbal, Indian philosopher, poet (b. 1877)