Of these there are surely few that would be more rewarding discoveries than Verner Von Heidenstam, the Swedish poet and novelist who received the award in 1916 and whose centennial was celebrated two years ago.

In 1816, Keats received his apothecary's licence, which made him eligible to practise as an apothecary, physician, and surgeon, but before the end of the year he announced to his guardian that he was resolved to be a poet, not a surgeon.

Three years later, while walking in Frederiksberg Gardens, he attracted the notice of the poet Edvard Storm, and the result of the conversation was that he received a nomination to the college called Posterity's High School, an important institution of which Storm was the principal.

* New Zealand author and poet Janet Frame received a literary award in 1951 the day before a scheduled lobotomy was to take place, and it was never performed.

The son of a military man, Cernuda received a strict education as a child, and then studied law at the University of Seville, where he met the poet and literature professor Pedro Salinas.

Reason told the poet that her writing was a waste of time, that her work would not be well received and that she should not have her work printed so as to avoid causing the printer to lose money.

During his career as a poet he received four Pulitzer Prizes and was honored twice by the Senate.

Catullus received a book of bad poems by " the worst poet of all time " as a joke from a friend.

The excursion was well received especially by the noted writer and poet Juraj Slavik, the Minister for the Interior in the Czechoslovakia Government in Exile.

As a lawyer, Hiraide received widespread fame ( or notoriety, depending on political viewpoint ) for his defense of anarchist author Ōsugi Sakae, the defendants in the High Treason Incident, and for his defense of feminist poet Yosano Akiko over government criticism of her anti-war poetry.

In September 1729 he received the offer of the post of court poet to the theatre at Vienna, with a stipend of 3000 florins.

is a Japanese filmmaker, comedian, singer, actor, film editor, presenter, screenwriter, author, poet, painter, and one-time video game designer who has received critical acclaim, both in his native Japan and abroad, for his highly idiosyncratic cinematic work.

* October 17-Sir Philip Sidney, poet ( of wounds received at the Battle of Zutphen ( born 1554 )

She received her Ph. D in English from the University of Toronto, writing her PhD thesis on the work of the American poet Anne Sexton.

The success of the 1935 Wiley College debate team, coached by professor and poet Melvin Tolson, was the subject of a 2005 AMS Pictures documentary The Great Debaters, The Real Great Debaters of Wiley College which received heavy play around Texas followed by 2007 movie The Great Debaters, directed by and starring Denzel Washington.

From 1500 the poet was employed at the court of James IV in a role for which he received an annual salary referred to as a pensioun.

* Robert Stephen Hawker, poet and Anglican priest, received on his deathbed

Angelou is best known for her autobiographies, but she is also an established poet, although her poems have received mixed reviews.

In one of her poems, she writes: “ I am life, strength, woman .” Burgos received numerous awards and recognition for her work and was celebrated by poets including Pablo Neruda, who stated that her calling was to be the greatest poet of the Americas.

The 2nd, 4th, and 5th ( grand son of the 4th ) dukes of Infantado bore the name Íñigo López de Mendoza, to honor earlier ancestors, including the poet, while the 1st, 3rd and the one supposed to be the 5th but who died before his father the 4th, received the name Diego Hurtado de Mendoza as poet Iñigo father, by a second marriage, Diego, Admiral of Castile, deceased in 1404.

Juan Ramón Jiménez Mantecón ( 23 December 1881 – 29 May 1958 ) was a Spanish poet, a prolific writer who received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1956.

In his own home ( 22 Boulevard de Courcelles, near Parc Monceau ), he received a great many eminent artists, including the composers Henri Duparc, Gabriel Fauré, Claude Debussy, and Isaac Albéniz, the poet Mallarmé, the Russian novelist Turgenev, and the impressionist painter Monet.

He received his high school education at St. Mark's School, a prominent prep-school in Southborough, Massachusetts, where he met and was influenced by the poet Richard Eberhart who taught at the school.

Amongst this group was the poet Walt Whitman, then working as a clerk in the department, who received his dismissal note on June 30, 1865.

He did not, as it turned out, return until the summer of 1794, after an absence of seven years, having in the meantime executed another ideal commission ( a " Cephalus and Aurora ") for Thomas Hope, and having sent home models for several sepulchral monuments, including one in relief for the poet William Collins in Chichester cathedral, and one in the round for Lord Mansfield in Westminster Abbey.

A poem could be used to immortalize both the poet and the subject of the poem, as oftentimes wealthy kings would commission poets to create a piece about them.

He also executed his life-size bust of Queen Louise in marble, and among his other early works were busts of the poet Zacharias Werner, Count Wenyerski and the painter Raphael Mengs, the latter executed on a commission from Ludwig I of Bavaria.

Hopkinson then began a lucrative career as a portrait painter in Cambridge winning awards like the Logan Medal of the arts ( 1926 ), and soon his first commission being a baby portrait in 1896 of poet E. E. Cummings, a work that is in the Massachusetts Historical Society.

Current projects include Concerto for Horn and Symphony Orchestra for Ondrej Vrabec ( Principal Horn Czech Philharmonic Orchestra ) and the Central England Ensemble, to be premiered in Birmingham UK in 2012, a commission from the Francis Brett Young society to compose a work based on Young ’ s poem, The Ballad of St Kenelm, to be premiered in Halesowen ( the poet ’ s birthplace ) in 2015, and a new work for solo piano for Duncan Honeybourne.

* Simonides: A highly respected poet, he was however notorious for demanding high fees-he'd even go to sea in a sieve if the commission was right ( line 697-8 ).

The results were examined first by a commission of the Board of Education, which selected the submissions of the hymn poet Jalaleddine Naccache and the composer Salah El Mahdi ( director of the Conservatoire of Tunis ).

Influenced by his friendship in the 1840s with Andrea Maffei, a poet and man of letters who had suggested both Schiller's Die Räuber ( The Robbers ) and Shakespeare's Macbeth as suitable subjects for operas, Giuseppe Verdi started writing the music for Macbeth in 1846 after receiving a commission from Florence's Teatro della Pergola and an assurance that certain singers would be available, especially the baritone, Felice Varesi.

Empress ( first ): Princess Iwa ( 磐之媛命 ), poet and daughter of Katsuragi no Sotsuhiko ( 葛城襲津彦 )

At the Café des Poètes, a brawl is staged by acolytes of the Princess ( Casares ) and the young poet Cègeste ( Edouard Dermithe ), a rival of Orpheus, is killed.

* English poet Francis Quarles becomes cupbearer to Princess Elizabeth.

Pinafore ( 1878 ); Major-General Stanley in The Pirates of Penzance, who is an expert at everything except " military knowledge " ( 1880 ); the aesthetic poet, Reginald Bunthorne in Patience ( 1881 ); the love-lonely Lord Chancellor in Iolanthe ( 1882 ); the sarcastic cripple, King Gama, in Princess Ida ( 1884 ); Ko-Ko the cheap tailor, elevated to the post of Lord High Executioner, in The Mikado ( 1885 ); the accursed Robin Oakapple in Ruddigore ( 1887 ); and the pathetic jester, Jack Point, in The Yeomen of the Guard ( 1888 ).

Among these are statues of Lord Stanley, poet Robert Burns, Olympic runner Harry Jerome, and President Harding ; plaques commemorating the wreck of the SS Beaver, the sinking of the Chehalis ( a tugboat that collided with the MV Princess Victoria off Stanley Park ), Pauline Johnson ’ s burial site, and the Salvation Army ; a replica of the RMS Empress of Japan figurehead ; a bronze statue of a Girl in a Wetsuit by Elek Imredy ; and a timber-and-stump archway that replaced the original Lumbermen ’ s Arch built by lumber workers immediately west of the Aquarium is accompanied by a planting of Japanese maple and flowering cherry and other plants from Japan.

Jungian analyst Betty De Shong Meador has translated works by Enheduanna and written two books on the subject, Inanna: Lady of Largest Heart and Princess, priestess, poet: the Sumerian temple hymns of Enheduanna.

* Betty De Shong Meador, Princess, priestess, poet: the Sumerian temple hymns of Enheduanna, University of Texas Press, 2009, ISBN 978-0-292-71932-3

American poet Henry Longfellow visited the school in 1868, Prince and Princess Christian on speech-day in 1870 and The Duke and Duchess of Teck visited in 1891 with their daughter, Princess May ( later Queen Mary ).

Broadway star Dennis King reprised his role as 15th-century French poet François Villon and MacDonald was Princess Katherine.

Princess Shikishi ( Shikishi Naishinnō ) ( died 1201 ) was a medieval Japanese poet, who lived during the late Heian and early Kamakura periods.

The English poet Alfred Lord Tennyson declared that the Odes provided " jewels five-words long, that on the stretched forefinger of all Time / Sparkle for ever " ( The Princess, part II, l. 355 ).

She was awarded the Prix de l ' Academie Française and met Marcel Proust, who sent her a letter praising her book: You are not only a splendid writer, Princess, but a sculptor of words, a musician, a purveyor of scents, a poet.