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Hoggart was born in the Potternewton area of Leeds, one of three children in an impoverished family.His father, Tom Longfellow Hoggart (1880–1922), the son of a boilermaker, was a regular infantry soldier and housepainter who died of brucellosis when Hoggart was a year old, and his mother Adeline died of a chest illness when he was eight. [1]
Preceded by. John Thomas and Lady Jane (1927) Lady Chatterley's Lover is the final novel by English author D. H. Lawrence, which was first published privately in 1928, in Florence, Italy, and in 1929, in Paris, France. [2] An unexpurgated edition was not published openly in the United Kingdom until 1960, when it was the subject of a watershed ...
W. H. Auden. Wystan Hugh Auden (/ ˈwɪstən ˈhjuː ˈɔːdən /; 21 February 1907 – 29 September 1973 [1]) was a British-American poet. Auden's poetry is noted for its stylistic and technical achievement, its engagement with politics, morals, love, and religion, and its variety in tone, form, and content. Some of his best known poems are ...
The Uses of Literacy. The Uses of Literacy is a book written by Richard Hoggart and published in 1957, examining the influence of mass media in the United Kingdom. [ 1] The book has been described as a key influence in the history of English and media studies and in the founding of cultural studies. [ 2][ 3]
R v Penguin Books Ltd[a] (also known as The Lady Chatterley Trial), was the public prosecution in the United Kingdom of Penguin Books under the Obscene Publications Act 1959 [b] for the publication of D. H. Lawrence 's 1928 novel Lady Chatterley's Lover. The trial took place over six days, in No 1 court of the Old Bailey, between 20 October and ...
The first evidence of the poems that were to become the "Calamus" cluster is an unpublished manuscript sequence of twelve poems entitled "Live Oak With Moss," written in or before spring 1859. [4] These poems were all incorporated in Whitman's 1860 edition of Leaves of Grass, but out of their original sequence. These poems seem to recount the ...
Oh, My Love is Like a Red, Red Rose. " A Red, Red Rose " is a 1794 song in Scots by Robert Burns based on traditional sources. The song is also referred to by the title " (Oh) My Love is Like a Red, Red Rose " and is often published as a poem. Many composers have set Burns' lyric to music, but it gained worldwide popularity set to the ...
Pound's poems were often austere, with every word carefully worked on. Lawrence felt all poems had to be personal sentiments, and that a sense of spontaneity was vital. He called one collection of poems Pansies, partly for the simple ephemeral nature of the verse, but also as a pun on the French word panser, to dress or