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Orson Welles read the poem on an episode of The Radio Reader's Digest (11 October 1942), [9] [10] Command Performance (21 December 1943), [11] and The Orson Welles Almanac (31 May 1944). [12] High Flight has been a favourite poem amongst both aviators and astronauts. It is the official poem of the Royal Canadian Air Force and the Royal Air Force.
John Gillespie Magee Jr. (9 June 1922 – 11 December 1941) [1] [2] [3] was a World War II Anglo-American Royal Canadian Air Force fighter pilot and war poet, who wrote the sonnet "High Flight". He was killed in an accidental mid-air collision over England in 1941.
John Franklin Hall (April 14, 1951 - March 14, 2023) was a professor of Classics and Ancient History at Brigham Young University. He was a student of R. E. A. Palmer. Hall specialized in Rome during the reign of Augustus. He also made contributions in the subdiscipline of Etruscology.
The Summer Dance and Other Poems (John Lehmann, London 1951) The Burning Hare (Chatto & Windus / Hogarth Press 1966 ) A House of Voices (Phoenix Living Poet Series, Chatto & Windus/Hogarth, 1973) Selected and New Poems 1939–84 (Secker & Warburg, 1986) Long Shadows (Shoestring 2003, repr. Faber & Faber 2010)
In the early 1980s, Hall began participating in the Lower East Side poetry scene. [5] He read his poems at such venues as Speakeasy [2] and ABC No Rio. [6] According to performance poet Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz, Hall "became an easily recognizable figure in the scene: pale, bald, dressed mostly in black and white, with wire-rimmed glasses and a porkpie hat."
Alejandro performed “Touching the Sky” during his performance as part of TODAY’s Citi Concert Series on the 30 Rock plaza on Friday, July 12. Read on for the full lyrics in both English and ...
John Hall Wheelock (September 9, 1886 – March 22, 1978) was an American poet. He was a descendant of Eleazar Wheelock , founder of Dartmouth College . The son of William Efner Wheelock and Emily Charlotte Hall, [ 1 ] John Hall Wheelock was born in Far Rockaway, New York , and brought up in the neighborhood now occupied by Rockefeller Center .
John Hall (1627–1656), also known as John Hall of Durham, was an English poet, essayist and pamphleteer of the Commonwealth period. After a short period of adulation at university, he became a writer in the Parliamentary cause and Hartlib Circle member.