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  2. Robert Francis (poet) - Wikipedia

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    Robert Francis (August 12, 1901 – July 13, 1987) was an American poet who lived most of his life in Amherst, Massachusetts.. His 1953 poem, “The Pitcher”, is a classic work among coaches, athletes, baseball players—and pitchers and artists.

  3. List of oral repositories - Wikipedia

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    [8]: 34 Some participate in improvised poetry competitions such as the Central Asian aytysh, the North African Kabyle people's amusnaw, the Spanish repentismo , or the African Ewe people's halo. [ 13 ] [ 14 ] In parts of the world they remain as custodians of culture despite rising literacy rates .

  4. The Dog Beneath the Skin - Wikipedia

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    The play describes the quest by the hero Alan Norman to find Sir Francis Crewe, the missing heir of Honeypot Hall in Crewe. The quest takes him on a satiric journey through Europe and England, accompanied by a large dog, who proves to be Sir Francis in disguise. Auden and Isherwood wrote two versions of the end of the play.

  5. List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 1965 - Wikipedia

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    Poetry in English since 1910: Also won in 1972 [80] [92] James Thorpe: Princeton University: Also won in 1949 [36] Medieval History: Robert James Brentano: University of California, Berkeley: History of the 13th-century diocese of Rieti, Italy: Also won in 1978 [68] [28] Charles Warren Hollister: University of California, Santa Barbara

  6. List of Desert Island Discs episodes (1961–1970) - Wikipedia

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    The collected poetry of Robert Graves: American whiskey: more: 5 June 1961: Julian Bream: Collection of 16th and 17th-century English poetry: Guitar, manuscript paper and pens: more: 12 June 1961: Richard Murdoch: History of the world: Golf clubs and balls: more: 19 June 1961: Dr W Grey Walter: Everybody's handbook for survival on a desert ...

  7. Dramatic Romances and Lyrics - Wikipedia

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    Many of the original titles given by Browning to the poems in this collection, as with its predecessor Dramatic Lyrics, are different from the ones he later gave them in various editions of his collected works. Since this book was originally self-published in a very small edition, these poems really only came to prominence in the later ...

  8. Robert Francis (actor) - Wikipedia

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    Robert Charles Francis was born in Glendale, California in 1930. His parents, James and Lillian Francis, ran a family pharmacy. He was the youngest by 10 years of three children. Francis was a conscientious student and an excellent skier, so much so that throughout the majority of his teenage years he had aspirations to join the U.S. Olympic ...

  9. Frances Browne - Wikipedia

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    According to Alexis Easley, "almost all of the poems Brown published in the Athenaeum were immediately reprinted in periodicals and newspapers," thus bringing her work to an even wider audience. [3] Browne published her first volume of poetry, The Star of Attéghéi, the Vision of Schwartz, and other Poems, in 1844. The volume received mostly ...