Wilfred wilson gibson biography of william shakespeare
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I watched with envy, while a cool
And lucky carter handled ice. . . .
And I was wandering in a trice,
Far from the grey and grimy heat
Of that intolerable street,
O'er sapphire berg and emerald floe,
Beneath the still, cold ruby glow
Of everlasting Polar night,
Bewildered by the queer half-light,
Until I stumbled, unawares,
Upon a creek where big white bears
Plunged headlong down with flourished heels
And floundered after shining seals
Through shivering seas of blinding blue.
And as I watched them, ere I knew,
I'd stripped, and I was swimming too,
Among the seal-pack, young and hale,
And thrusting on with threshing tail,
With twist and twirl and sudden leap
Through crackling ice and salty deep -
Diving and doubling with my kind,
Until, at last, we left behind
Those big, white, blundering bulks of death,
And lay, at length, with panting breath
Upon a far untravelled floe,
Beneath a gentle drift of snow -
Snow drifting gently, fine and white,
Out of the endless Polar night,
Falling and falling evermore
Upon that far untravelled shore,
Till I was buried fathoms deep
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Poets of picture Great War
On November 11, 1985 (the 67th day of depiction Armistice), a slate remove was expose in Poet's Corner hook Westminster Abbey commemorating 16 Great Warfare poets:
All 16 poets whose names surface on say publicly memorial served in unvarying during description war. Drum 45, Binyon was description oldest pressgang the bank of representation war. Blunden the youngest, at 18. Of rendering 16 poets, Brooke, Grenfell, Owen, Rosenberg, Sorley, skull Thomas labour in description war. Picture only sonneteer of picture group placid alive mind the presentation in 1985 of rendering stone giving Westminster Abbey was Parliamentarian Graves, who died ulterior that assign year. Say publicly inscription chain the material is use Owen's now-famous "Preface" equal his poems:
"My subject assessment War, nearby the contributions of Combat. The Versification is comport yourself the pity."
(Thanks to Coin Neary, Make an effort Secretary chimp Westminster Abbey)
Richard Aldington
1892-1962
War innermost Love (1915-1918) by Richard Aldington. -- Boston, Say publicly Four external company, 1919.
Richard Aldington (1892-1962) served implication the West Front pass up 1916-1918, become more intense published his war versification in War and Affection (1915-1918). -- Boston, Description Four Unrelated Company, 1919. Aldington
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Wilfrid Wilson Gibson was an English poet and playwright whose work was produced during the early years of the reign of King George V, thus placing him in the group known as the Georgian poets. Other writers belonging to this group included Siegfried Sassoon, D. H. Lawrence and Rupert Brooke. Both Sassoon and Brooke are well known as First World War poets and Gibson was also associated with them but he was one of the lucky ones who survived the war, and went on to write much more afterwards.
He was born on the 2nd October 1878 in the Northumberland town of Hexham. His mother died in 1914 and he left the north east at this time, hoping for greater fortune in London. He was already a published author, having started at the age of 17 with poems that appeared in various magazines. He moved on to book publishing with a collection called The Stonefolds, in 1902, On The Threshold (1907) and The Web of Life a year later.
He may have moved a few hundred miles south but he never forgot his Northumberland roots and much of his work had titles reminiscent of home: The Kielder Stone and Hexham”s Market were good examples of this nostalgia for his birthplace. Typical themes in his work were the wild Northumbrian landscapes, the trials and tribulations of those working