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John Lovell (grocer) (c. 1851–1913), businessman in Los Angeles, California John C. Lovell (born 1967), American sailor John Harvey Lovell (1860–1939), entomologist in Maine
The Fireside Poets (also known as the "Schoolroom" or "Household Poets") were a group of American poets from New England. The group is usually described as comprising Henry Wadsworth Longfellow , William Cullen Bryant , John Greenleaf Whittier , James Russell Lowell , and Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
Literary Garland was started in December 1838 by John Lovell, a Montreal-based publisher who came to Quebec from Ireland in 1820 and made a reputation publishing school texts, directories, and gazetteers. His brother-in-law John Gibson served as editor from 1838 to 1842 and co-publisher from 1842 until the magazine's dissolution in 1851.
Old Wykehamists are former pupils of Winchester College, so called in memory of the school's founder, William of Wykeham. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] He was Bishop of Winchester and Lord Chancellor of England. He used the wealth these positions gave him to establish both the school in 1382 and a university college, New College, Oxford , in 1379; both of them ...
Robert Lovell (1771–1796) was an English poet who was known for his poem, Bristol: A Satire, which criticised the many merchants of Bristol and their involvement in "mortal corruption" which involved the slave trade.
Lovell was one of England's earliest slave traders. He was a relative of John Hawkins, who employed him to go on a slave trading voyage between Africa and the Spanish West Indies in 1566. English explorer and privateer Sir Francis Drake, who was Hawkins' second cousin, was part of the crew and also likely a relative of Lovell's. [2]
Taylor Swift Kevin Mazur/TAS24/Getty Images for TAS Rights Management Taylor Swift has opened up the vault to The Tortured Poets Department, sharing her initial lyrical inspirations.
Fireside poets were soon regarded as old-fashioned. In 1904, for example, The Dial noted, "The message of our older poets, it is true, has lost something of its timeliness with the lapse of years, and they have not found the successors that we could have wished; but we doubt greatly if a new Longfellow or a new Lowell could now become a real ...