What language do both writer Harry Mathews and poet Robert Desnos know?
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Harry Mathews Harry Mathews (February 14, 1930 – January 25, 2017) was an American writer. He is the author of various novels, volumes of poetry and short fiction, and essays. Mathews was also a translator of French.
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Robert Desnos Robert Desnos (] ; 4 July 1900 – 8 June 1945), was a French surrealist poet who played a key role in the Surrealist movement of his day.
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Robert Gilchrist (poet) Robert Gilchrist (1797–1844) was a Tyneside poet, born in Gateshead in County Durham. Possibly his best-known work is "The Amphitrite" – (or sometimes called "The Skippers Erudition", an example of Geordie dialect).
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Radheshyam Sharma Radheshyam Sharma (Gujarati: રાધેશ્યામ શર્મા) is a Gujarati language poet, novelist, short story writer, critic and compiler from Gujarat, India. He is known in Gujarati literature for his experimental novels "Fero" (1968) and "Swapnatirtha" (1979). His other significant works include "Aansu Ane Chandaranu" (1963) and "Gujarati Navalkatha" (with Raghuvir Chaudhari; 1974), a critical works on Gujarati novels. He received Ranjitram Suvarna Chandrak in 2004 and Dhanji Kanji Gandhi Suvarna Chandrak in 1995.
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Harry Evans (composer) Harry Evans (1 May 1873 – 23 July 1914), was a Welsh musician, conductor and composer.
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William Sansom William Norman Trevor Sansom FRSL (18 January 1912 – 20 April 1976) was a British novelist, travel and short story writer known for his highly descriptive prose style.
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R. S. Thomas Ronald Stuart Thomas (29 March 1913 – 25 September 2000), published as R. S. Thomas, was a Welsh poet and Anglican priest who was noted for his nationalism, spirituality and deep dislike of the anglicisation of Wales. John Betjeman, in his 1955 introduction to "Song at the Year's Turning", the first collection of Thomas's poetry to be produced by a major publisher, predicted that Thomas would be remembered long after he himself was forgotten. M. Wynn Thomas said: "He was the Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn of Wales because he was such a troubler of the Welsh conscience. He was one of the major English language and European poets of the 20th century."
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Gareth Alban Davies Gareth Alban Davies (30 July 1926 – 9 February 2009), was a Welsh poet, educator and Hispanist who was Cowdray Professor of Spanish at the University of Leeds. Davies translated many Spanish texts into English and Welsh, and was a noted expert on the works of Fernando Arrabal and Federico García Lorca.
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Robert Fitzgerald Robert Stuart Fitzgerald ( ; 12 October 1910 – 16 January 1985) was an American poet, critic and translator whose renderings of the Greek classics "became standard works for a generation of scholars and students." He was best known as a translator of ancient Greek and Latin. In addition, he also composed several books of his own poetry.
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Giorgos Seferis Giorgos or George Seferis (, ] ), the pen name of Georgios Seferiades (Γεώργιος Σεφεριάδης; March 13 [O.S. February 29] 1900 – September 20, 1971), was a Greek poet-diplomat. He was one of the most important Greek poets of the 20th century, and a Nobel laureate. He was a career diplomat in the Greek Foreign Service, culminating in his appointment as Ambassador to the UK, a post which he held from 1957 to 1962.
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George Herbert George Herbert (3 April 1593 – 1 March 1633) was a Welsh-born poet, orator and Anglican priest. Herbert's poetry is associated with the writings of the metaphysical poets, and he is recognised as "one of the foremost British devotional lyricists."
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Keidrych Rhys William Ronald Rhys Jones (26 December 1915 – 22 May 1987), who used the name Keidrych Rhys, was a Welsh literary journalist and editor, and a poet. He was editor of the periodical, "Wales", published from 1937 to 1949 and from 1958 to 1960.
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Dimitris Varos Dimitris Varos (Greek: Δημήτρης Βάρος ) was born in 1949 on the island of Chios. He is a modern Greek poet, journalist, and photographer.
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Huw Morus Huw Morus or Morys (1622 – August 1709), also known by his bardic name "Eos Ceiriog" ("the nightingale of Ceiriog"), was a Welsh poet of the 17th century. One of the most popular and prolific poets of his time, he composed a large number of poems in a variety of metres. Morus' work bridges the gap between the strict-metre tradition of the "Beirdd y Uchelwyr" (the medieval "Poets of the Nobility") and popular verse.
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Harry Dexter Harry Dexter (1910–1973) was an English music critic and a composer of light music best known for his "Siciliano" of 1953.
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Oenone (poem) "Oenone" or "Œnone" is a poem written by Alfred Lord Tennyson in 1829. The poem describes the Greek mythological character Oenone and her witnessing of the events in the life of her lover, Paris, as he is involved in the events of the Trojan War. "Oenone" was inspired by Tennyson's trip to Spain, where he visited the Pyrenees mountains. It is considered the simplest of Tennyson's dramatic monologues.
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Alexandros Matsas Alexandros A. Mátsas (Greek: Αλέξανδρος Μάτσας , 1911 – 1969) was a Greek poet and ambassador of Greece. He was born in Athens, Greece. After following courses on political science and classical studies at Oxford University, he entered the Greek diplomatic service in 1934. He served in various posts in Egypt, Paris, The Hague, and Rome, and was Royal Greek Ambassador to Turkey and the United States of America.
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Robert Hilles Robert Hilles (born November 13, 1951) is a Canadian poet and novelist who divides his time between Salt Spring Island and Khon Kaen Thailand.
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Marianne Moore Marianne Craig Moore (November 15, 1887 – February 5, 1972) was an American Modernist poet, critic, translator, and editor. Her poetry is noted for formal innovation, precise diction, irony, and wit.
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Raymond Garlick Raymond Garlick (21 September 1926 – 19 March 2011) was an Anglo-Welsh poet. He was also the first editor of the "The Anglo-Welsh Review", a lecturer, critic, and non-violent campaigner for the use of the Welsh language.
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Osmond Tisani Osman Tisani (1877–c.1920) was a South African expatriate, who became the first known person of African origin to speak the Irish of the Galway Gaeltacht by some ninety years.
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Kyriakos Charalambides Kyriakos Charalambides (Greek: Κυριάκος Χαραλαμπίδης , Kyriacos Charalambides) is one of the most renowned and celebrated living Cypriot poets. His poetry, essays, translations, and critical analysis celebrate the ideas of Western civilisation, expressed through the language and history of Greek culture. His poetic opus adds to the tradition established by such modern Greek poets as Constantine P. Cavafy, Giorgos Seferis and Odysseas Elytis. His poetry though holds steadfastly to the Greek Cypriot linguistic register.