* August 20 – Milton Acorn, Canadian poet, writer, and playwright ( b. 1923 )

* March 30 – Milton Acorn, Canadian writer ( d. 1986 )

Milton James Rhode Acorn ( March 30, 1923 – August 20, 1986 ), nicknamed The People's Poet by his peers, was a Canadian poet, writer, and playwright.

In 1987, the Milton Acorn People's Poetry Award was established in his memory by Ted Plantos.

" The award is $ 250 ( since raised to $ 500 ) and a medallion, modelled after the one given to Milton Acorn.

" Canadian poet, Milton Acorn, is remembered with feeling and eloquence in this tribute that takes the form of a wake.

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* August 20 – Milton Acorn, Canadian poet, writer, and playwright

Others such as Al Purdy, Milton Acorn, and Earle Birney, already published, produced some of their best work during this period.

His books have also been shortlisted for the Milton Acorn People ’ s Poetry Prize, the W. O.

Let the Earth Take Note: Anthology of the Milton Acorn Festival, ed.

James Deahl, Charlottetown, Milton Acorn Festival Publishing, 1994

* You Are Not Who You Claim-( Beach Holme, 1990 ) ( winner of the Milton Acorn People's Poetry Award )

* Poetry or Drama: Milton Acorn, The Island Means Minago.

* Milton Acorn: Against a League of Liars

* Milton Acorn: Jawbreakers

* Dig up My Heart: Milton Acorn

* Milton Acorn: I Shout Love and On Shaving Off His Beard

* Milton Acorn – In Love and Anger

* Milton Acorn: More Poems for People

The paper was founded as an alternative newspaper in May 1967 by Pierre Coupey, Milton Acorn, Dan McLeod, Stan Persky, and others, and originally it operated as a collective.

In 1996, he was awarded the Milton Acorn People ’ s Poetry Award for his book, Tearing Into A Summer Day.

* Canadian Poetry Online: Milton Acorn-Biography and 6 poems ( The Island, I Shout Love, What I Know of God is This, Hummingbird, Live With Me On Earth Under the Invisible Daylight Moon, The Natural History of Elephants )

Category: Poetry by John Milton

" Milton and English Poetry " in A Companion to Milton.

The Complete Poetry and Essential Prose of John Milton.

Category: Poetry by John Milton

Among his non-sociological prose works are early short stories, an essay " Notes on the Technique of Poetry " ( from the 1930s ), and schoolboy essays on Blake and Milton.

Lindall ’ s art for Paradise Lost appears on the cover of Complete Poetry and Essential Prose of John Milton, released by Random House in 2008.

* Milton: Complete Poetry and Selected Prose, with English Metrical Translations of the Latin, Greek and Italian Poems ( 1938 )

* The Springs of Helicon: A Study of the Progress of English Poetry from Chaucer to Milton ( 1909 )

The texts Bodkin discusses in Archetypal Patterns in Poetry include those of Virgil, Dante, Shakespeare, Milton, and Coleridge ( Hooke 1935: 176 ; Boswell 1936: 553 ; Willcock 1936: 91 ); Goethe and Euripides ( Boswell 1936: 553 ); and Aeschylus, Shelley, T. S. Eliot, as well as the Christian Gospels ( Hooke 1935: 177 ).

In 1987 Faiers was the first recipient of the Milton Acorn People's Poetry Award for his book Foot Through the Ceiling ( 1986 ).

* Milton Kessler Poetry Prize, Binghamton University, 2012.

* John Milton: A Reader's Guide to His Poetry, Octagon Books, ( 1971 )

Annual publications included volumes in Milton Studies and Cuban Studies and the winners of the Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize, the AWP Award Series in Poetry, and the Drue Heinz Literature Prize.

The Influence of Milton on English Poetry.

) The Complete Poetry and Essential Prose of John Milton.

Category: Poetry by John Milton