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  2. Philip Saville - Wikipedia

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    Saville was born Philip Saffer on 28 October 1927 at Marylebone, London (in later life he gave his birth year as 1930, a date repeated in all his obituaries), [5] son of Louis Saffer (who later assumed the anglicized form of the family name, "Saville", chosen by his father, Joseph Saffer, a master tailor), a travelling salesman for a clothing company, and Sadie Kathleen (known as "Kay"), née ...

  3. The 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential Persons in History

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    For placing Muhammad in first place of the list, the book received several controversial reviews from western critics, [25] but the book was widely welcomed and outburst with positive reviews in the Muslim world, and the book is often cited in the Muslim writers' book including Ayatollah Sayed Muhammad al-Shirazi, Ahmed Deedat etc. [26] [27 ...

  4. The Idea of Order at Key West - Wikipedia

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    The deconstruction of people and nature allows for an artistic interpretation of the poem. [7] Jay Parini, who in 2011 ranked the poem second only to Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself" among all American poems ever written, interprets it as "[celebrating] the 'blessed rage for order' at the heart of all creative work." [8]

  5. Esther Saville Allen - Wikipedia

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    Esther Saville Allen (née, Saville; pen names, Winnie Woodbine, Etta Saville, Mrs. S. R. Allen; December 11, 1837 - July 16, 1913) was an American author of the long nineteenth century. In her day, Allen was likely the author of more works, both in prose and verse, than any other woman in Arkansas. [1] She died in 1913.

  6. Vita Sackville-West - Wikipedia

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    She dedicated her poem to her lover Dorothy Wellesley. A recording of Sackville-West reading it was released by the British Columbia label. [42] [38] [43] Her poem won the Hawthornden Prize in 1927. She won it again in 1933 with her Collected Poems, becoming the only writer to do so twice. [35] The Garden won the Heinemann Award for literature ...

  7. Tales of St. Austin's - Wikipedia

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    First edition. Tales of St. Austin's is a collection of short stories and essays, all with a school theme, by P. G. Wodehouse.It was first published on 10 November 1903 by Adam & Charles Black, London, all except one item having previously appeared in the schoolboy magazines, The Captain and Public School Magazine.

  8. Katherine Philips - Wikipedia

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    Katherine or Catherine Philips (née Fowler; 1 January 1631/2 – 22 June 1664), also known as "The Matchless Orinda", was an Anglo-Welsh royalist poet, translator, and woman of letters. She achieved renown as a translator of Pierre Corneille's Pompée and Horace, and for her editions of poetry after

  9. Sappho 16 - Wikipedia

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    The poem begins with a priamel – a rhetorical structure where a list of alternatives are contrasted with a final, different idea. [12] The first stanza opens with a list of things which some people believe are the most beautiful in the world: "some say an army of horsemen, others say foot soldiers, still others say a fleet". [13]