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Thomas Warton (9 January 1728 – 21 May 1790) was an English literary historian, critic, and poet. He was appointed Poet Laureate in 1785, following the death of William Whitehead . He is sometimes called Thomas Warton the younger to distinguish him from his father, who had the same name .
Grosvenor Chapel. Education. Winchester College (1735) Clare College, Cambridge. BA (1739); MA (1743) Occupation. Poet, Playwright. William Whitehead (baptized 12 February 1715 – 14 April 1785) was an English poet and playwright. He became Poet Laureate in December 1757 after Thomas Gray declined the position.
Ron Whitehead has been involved in many aspects of the artistic field; writing poetry, editing literary works, organizing a non-profit organization to support literature worldwide called the Global Literary Renaissance, teaching and lecturing to students, and collaborating with artists and musicians, focusing primarily on the Louisville art scene and Kentucky folk art.
The Road Not Taken. " The Road Not Taken " is a narrative poem by Robert Frost, first published in the August 1915 issue of the Atlantic Monthly, [1] and later published as the first poem in the 1916 poetry collection, Mountain Interval. Its central theme is the divergence of paths, both literally and figuratively, although its interpretation ...
Events. April 14 - Death of English poet William Whitehead in London. Reverend Thomas Warton succeeds him as Poet Laureate of Great Britain after the refusal of William Mason. May 22 - Scottish poet Robert Burns ' first child, Elizabeth (" Dear-bought Bess "), is born to his mother's servant, Elizabeth Paton. [1]
Anna Laetitia Barbauld. William Battine. Peter Bayley (poet) Edward Baynard (physician) Benvenida Cohen Belmonte. Elizabeth Bentley (writer) John Berriman. Mary Matilda Betham. Margaret Bingham.
The force that through the green fuse drives the flower. " The force that through the green fuse drives the flower " is a poem by Welsh poet Dylan Thomas —the poem that "made Thomas famous." [1] Written in 1933 (when Thomas was nineteen), it was first published in his 1934 collection 18 Poems . Like the other poems in 18 Poems, which belong ...
Thomas North Whitehead. Thomas North Whitehead (31 December 1891, Cambridge, England – 22 November 1969, Cambridge, Massachusetts) was an early human relations theorist and researcher, best known for The Industrial Worker, a two-volume statistical analysis of the Hawthorne experiments. [1] He worked as a professor at Harvard University and ...