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The poet and Nobel laureate William Butler Yeats ( 1865 – 1939 ) spent much of his childhood in northern Sligo and the county's landscapes ( particularly the Isle of Innisfree, in Lough Gill ) were the inspiration for much of his poetry.
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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.
* 1862 – Maurice Maeterlinck, Belgian poet Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1949 )
* 1845 – Carl Spitteler, Swiss poet, Nobel laureate ( d. 1924 )
* 1999: The Esperanto poet William Auld is nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature.
* Maurice Maeterlinck, poet, playwright, essayist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature ( 1862 – 1949 )
* 1859 – Verner von Heidenstam, Swedish poet and novelist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1940 )
* 1835 – Giosuè Carducci, Italian poet, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1907 )
* 1904 – Pablo Neruda, Chilean poet, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1973 )
He was the youngest son of Irish portraitist John Butler Yeats, and the brother of the Nobel Prize winning poet William Butler Yeats.
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* 1904 – Harry Martinson, Swedish author and poet Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1978 )
* 1911 – Odysseas Elytis, Greek poet, Nobel laureate ( d. 1996 )
* 1901 – Jaroslav Seifert, Czech poet and journalist, Nobel Prize Laureate ( d. 1986 )
* 1973 – Pablo Neruda, Chilean diplomat and poet, Nobel Prize laureate ( b. 1904 )
Other authors with notable heritage in Stockholm were the Nobel Prize laureate Eyvind Johnson ( 1900 – 1976 ) and the popular poet and composer Evert Taube ( 1890 – 1976 ).
* 1911 – William Golding, English author, poet, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1993 )
* 1830 – Frédéric Mistral, French poet, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1914 )
Yeats was a very good friend of Indian Bengali poet Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore.
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** Joseph Brodsky, Russian-born poet, Nobel Prize laureate ( b. 1940 )
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* March 13 – Giorgos Seferis, Greek poet, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature ( d. 1971 )
* May 24 – Joseph Brodsky, Russian-born poet, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1996 )
* September 23 – Pablo Neruda, Chilean poet, Nobel Prize laureate ( b. 1904 )
* Wisława Szymborska 1923-2012 ; poet ; 1996 Nobel laureate in Literature
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The last Congress adopted seven bills for memorials, including one to Taras Shevchenko, the Ukrainian poet laureate ; ;
* 1928 – Ina Coolbrith, first poet laureate of California ( b. 1841 )
On April 8, 1341, he became the first poet laureate since antiquity and was crowned on the holy grounds of Rome's Capitol.
He had been crowned imperial poet laureate in 1442, and he obtained the patronage of the emperor's chancellor, Kaspar Schlick.
* The Great McGonagall ( 1974 ), untalented Scottish poet ( based on William Topaz McGonagall ) angles to become laureate, with Peter Sellers as Queen Victoria.
" ( Alfred Lord Tennyson was the poet laureate ).
* Petrarch is crowned poet laureate in Rome, the first man since antiquity to be given this honor.
* May 12 – John Dryden, English poet and dramatist who was poet laureate ( 1670 – 1688 ).
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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.
* 1843 – Frederic William Henry Myers, English poet and essayist ( d. 1901 )
The poet The Hon William Robert Spencer immortalised this hound in a poem.
* 1900 – William Heinesen, Faroese writer, poet and artist ( d. 1991 )
* 1914 – William Stafford, American poet and essayist ( d. 1993 )
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.
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