One beat poet composes a poem, `` Lines On A Tijuana John '', which contains a few happy hints for survival.

Incurably optimistic, dogmatic, and utterly fearless, in his youth a devout Baptist, in spite of his friendship for the Quaker poet John Greenleaf Whittier ( 1807-1892 ) he eventually attacked the orthodox churches for what he deemed their cowardly compromising on the slavery issue and in his invariably ardent manner was emphatically unorthodox and denied the plenary inspiration of the Bible.

* 1889 – John Middleton Murry, English poet ( d. 1957 )

* 1631 – John Dryden, English poet and playwright ( d. 1700 )

* 1653 – John Oldham, English poet ( d. 1683 )

They are said to go back at least to the Greek poet Lycophron, in the third century BCE ; but this relies on an account of Lycophron given by John Tzetzes in the 12th century.

" Amazing Grace " is a Christian hymn with words written by the English poet and clergyman John Newton ( 1725 – 1807 ), published in 1779.

* 1906 – John Betjeman, English poet ( d. 1984 )

John Dube, its first president, and poet and author Sol Plaatje are among its founding members.

* 1648 – John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby, English statesman and poet ( d. 1721 )

This view is presented in English poet John Keats ' poem To Autumn, where he describes the season as a time of bounteous fecundity, a time of ' mellow fruitfulness '.

Charles was the resident poet on Channel 4's Black on Black ( 1985 ), and its entertainment-based successor, Club Mix ( 1986 ), and appeared, weekly, as a John Cooper Clarke-style ' punk poet ' on the BBC2 pop music programme Oxford Road Show under the name of " Susan Williams ".

The historical novelist and poet Maurice Hewlett published a series of articles in the literary journal John O ' London's Weekly, in which he concluded: " And knowing children, and knowing that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle has legs, I decide that the Miss Carpenters have pulled one of them.

Near the end of the 17th century, John Phillips, a nephew of poet John Milton, published what is considered by Putnam the worst English translated version.

Orville Wright, poet Paul Laurence Dunbar, and entrepreneur John H. Patterson were born in Dayton.

* 1732 – John Gay, English poet and dramatist ( b. 1685 )

* 1608 – John Milton, English poet ( d. 1674 )

* 2008: The Edge of Love starring Matthew Rhys as the poet, directed by John Maybury, written by Sharman Macdonald, and drawing on David N. Thomas ' book Dylan Thomas: A Farm, Two Mansions and a Bungalow.

In due course, opposition to the divine right of kings came from a number of sources, including poet John Milton in his pamphlet The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates.

Thompson was born in Oxford to Methodist missionary parents: His father, Edward John Thompson ( 1886-1946 ) was a poet and admirer of the Nobel-prize winning poet Tagore.

* 1692 – John Byrom, English poet ( d. 1763 )

* 1929 – John Montague, Irish poet

It thus became expected that educated Europeans should learn at least some Italian ; the English poet John Milton, for instance, wrote some of his early poetry in Italian.

* John Milton ( 1608 – 1674 ), English poet

* 1674 – John Milton, English poet ( b. 1608 )

The British poet Gerard Manley Hopkins claimed to have discovered this previously unnamed poetic rhythm in the natural patterns of English in folk songs, spoken poetry, Shakespeare, Milton, et al.

* December 9 – John Milton, English poet ( d. 1674 )

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

* The English poet John Milton popularizes the Chinese sailing carriage in a famous poem ; this peculiar Chinese invention was first written of in the West by Abraham Ortelius in his atlas of 1584.

* November 8 – John Milton, English Puritan poet noted for Paradise Lost and other works including Lycidas ; On His Blindness ; L ’ Allegro ; On The Late Massacre In Piedmont ; Paradise Regained ( b. 1608 )

* Milton Acorn Poetry Awards for an outstanding " people's poet "

The massacre was so brutal that it prompted the English poet John Milton to write the sonnet On the Late Massacre in Piedmont.

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.

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

* Milton Babbitt wrote a song called " Philomel " based on the story, with a libretto by poet John Hollander, for vocalist Bethany Beardslee accompanied by synthesizer and recorded soprano.

Notable inhabitants of these properties were the Markwicks ( builders and carpenters, from 1700 ) at Coppinghall and Milton Cottage ( Interestingly, the current generation of notable Markwicks in Uckfield run the local picture house ), Edward Kenward ( 19th century maltster ) at the Malt House, Thomas Pentecost ( a Victorian leather cutter and local poet ) in a cottage near the Grammar School and General Sir George Calvert Clarke ( commander of the Royal Scots Greys at Balaclava ) at Church House.

* Ted Milton ( British poet, performer and musician )

* Elizabeth Minshull ( 1630 – 1727 ), third wife of poet John Milton was born in nearby Wistaston and lived as a widow in Nantwich until her death in 1727.

He suggested that the poet John Milton had employed both an amanuensis and an editor, who were responsible for clerical errors and interpolations, but it is unclear whether Bentley believed his own position.

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

The poet in return immortalized his friend in a famous sonnet in which Milton, with a musical perception not common amongst poets, describes the great merit of Lawes.

Eldridge named the farm after John Milton, the English poet.

Prynne also came into collision with John Milton, whose doctrine on divorce he had denounced, and was replied to by the poet in a passage in his Colasterion.