* Vita Sackville-West, The Hon Lady Nicolson, English poet, novelist and gardener.

Then in 1927 Evans played a poet in The Pleasure Garden by Beatrice Mayor followed by Young Man in On Baile's Strand by W. B. Yeats, Midir in The Immortal Hour by Fiona Macleod, the Hon.

The grandson of the poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson, he succeeded his father to the title in 1928, having been known before that as " The Hon Lionel Tennyson ".

By 1983, the band consisted of Alan Gill, Keith Hartley, Gordon Hon ( who had previously performed with the original band as a poet called ' The Worm ') and Kenny Peers.

The knights for Warwickshire in this parliament, which ended its session on February 9, were Fulke Greville ( the poet ) and William Combe of Warwick, as Fulke Greville and Edward Greville had been in 1593.

Ordained in the Church of England in 1764, Newton became curate of Olney, Buckinghamshire, where he began to write hymns with poet William Cowper.

* 1869 – William Henry Ogilvie, Scottish-Australian poet ( d. 1963 )

* 1849 – William Ernest Henley, English poet, critic, and editor ( d. 1903 )

One of the circles in which this poetry and its ethic were cultivated was the court of Eleanor of Aquitaine ( herself the granddaughter of an early troubadour poet, William IX of Aquitaine ).

* 1770 – William Wordsworth, English poet ( d. 1850 )

* 1668 – William Davenant, English poet ( b. 1606 )

* 1850 – William Lisle Bowles, English poet and critic ( b. 1762 )

Similar examples may be found in Irish poet William Butler Yeats ' poem The Wild Swans at Coole where the maturing season that the poet observes symbolically represents his own ageing self.

The Scottish poet William Soutar also wrote over one hundred American Cinquains ( he labelled them Epigrams ) between 1933 and 1940.

* 1649 – William Drummond of Hawthornden, Scottish poet ( b. 1585 )

His middle name, Marlais, was given in honour of his great-uncle, William Thomas, a Unitarian minister and poet whose bardic name was Gwilym Marles.

* 1585 – William Drummond of Hawthornden, Scottish poet ( d. 1649 )

By the 1930s, the five-line cinquain verse form became widely known in the poetry of the Scottish poet William Soutar.

* 1999: The Esperanto poet William Auld is nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature.

* 1843 – Frederic William Henry Myers, English poet and essayist ( d. 1901 )

* 1900 – William Heinesen, Faroese writer, poet and artist ( d. 1991 )

* 1914 – William Stafford, American poet and essayist ( d. 1993 )

He was the youngest son of Irish portraitist John Butler Yeats, and the brother of the Nobel Prize winning poet William Butler Yeats.

In September 1797, Coleridge lived in Stowey in the south west of England and spent much of his time walking through the nearby Quantock Hills with his fellow poet William Wordsworth and Wordsworth's sister Dorothy ; ( His route today is memorialized as the " Coleridge Way ".

The poem's emphasis on imagination as subject of a poem, on the contrasts within the paradisal setting, and its discussion of the role of poet as either being blessed or cursed by imagination, has influenced many works, including Alfred Tennyson's " Palace of Art " and William Butler Yeats's Byzantium based poems.

Famous visitors to Luxembourg in the 18th and 19th centuries included the German poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, the French writers Emile Zola and Victor Hugo, the composer Franz Liszt, and the English painter Joseph Mallord William Turner.

In 1972, poet William Irwin Thompson named his Lindisfarne Association after the monastery on the island.

Robert Hillyer, the poet, writes in his introduction to this brief animal fable that Mr. Burman ought to win a Nobel Prize for the Catfish Bend series.

* Robert Anton Wilson, polymath, author, philosopher, editor, playwright, poet, futurist, civil libertarian, ( edu.

* 1575 – Robert Hayman, English-Canadian poet ( d. 1629 )

* 1774 – Robert Southey, English poet and biographer ( d. 1843 )

* 1913 – Robert Hayden, American poet ( d. 1980 )

* 1930 – Robert Bridges, English poet ( b. 1844 )

* 1905 – Robert Penn Warren, American poet ( d. 1989 )

A Burns supper is a celebration of the life and poetry of the poet Robert Burns, author of many Scots poems.

Newson wanted to give his children the best education possible so when Elizabeth was 13 and her sister 15, they were sent to a private school, the Boarding School for Ladies in Blackheath, London, which was run by the step aunts of the poet, Robert Browning.

However literary figures such as the poet Robert Browning and his wife Elizabeth Barrett Browning could study and admire the Schlegels while still appreciating Euripides as " our Euripides the human " ( Wine of Cyprus stanza 12 ).

Robert Burns ( 1759-96 ) exalted as Scotland's national poet.

A leading champion of Melville's claims as a great American poet was the poet and novelist Robert Penn Warren, who issued a selection of Melville's poetry prefaced by an admiring and acute critical essay.

Haggis is traditionally served as part of the Burns supper on the week of January 25, when Scotland's national poet, Robert Burns, is commemorated.

" This particular line of criticism also misses the obvious parallels that existed between the story's background ( England conquered by the Normans in 1066, when they killed Saxon King Harold at Hastings, about 130 years previously ) and the prevailing situation in Scott's native Scotland ( Scotland's union with England in 1707 – about the same length of time had elapsed before Scott's writing and the resurgence in his time of Scottish nationalism evidenced by the cult of Robert Burns, the famous poet who deliberately chose to work in Scots vernacular though he was an educated man and spoke modern English eloquently ).

* 1963 – Robert Frost, American poet ( b. 1874 )

* 1759 – Robert Burns, Scottish poet ( d. 1796 )

* 1874 – Robert W. Service, Canadian poet ( d. 1958 )

* 1985 – Robert Fitzgerald, American poet and translator ( b. 1910 )

Much of the poem could have been influenced by Coleridge's opium dream or, as his friend and fellow poet Robert Southey joked, " Coleridge had dreamed he had written a poem in a dream ".

* 1917 – Robert Lowell, American poet ( d. 1977 )

* 1812 – Robert Browning, English poet ( d. 1889 )

* 1830 – Robert Hamerling, Austrian poet ( d. 1889 )

Several decades later, the poet Robert de Boron retold this material in his poem Merlin.