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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 3 October 2024. American composer and conductor (born 1932) This article is about the composer. For other people named John Williams, see John Williams (disambiguation). John Williams Williams in 2011 Born John Towner Williams (1932-02-08) February 8, 1932 (age 92) New York City, U.S. Occupations ...
Life. He was born in London on 28 April 1761, and was sent in 1771 to Merchant Taylors' School. [1] There he was beaten for an epigram on Mr. Knox, the third master. At the age of seventeen he was placed with a painter, but he gave up art to become an author and translator. When he was about eighteen he wrote a defence of David Garrick against ...
Publication date. 1916. Salt-Water Poems and Ballads is a book of poetry on themes of seafaring and maritime history by British future Poet Laureate John Masefield. It was first published in 1916 by Macmillan, with illustrations by Charles Pears. The collection includes "Sea-Fever" and "Cargoes", two of Masefield's best known poems.
Arch. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (originally The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere) is the longest major poem by English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, written in 1797–98 and published in 1798 in the first edition of Lyrical Ballads. Some modern editions use a revised version printed in 1817 that featured a gloss. [1]
John Edward Williams. John Edward Williams (August 29, 1922 – March 3, 1994) was an American author, editor and professor. He was best known for his novels Butcher's Crossing (1960), Stoner (1965), and Augustus (1972), [1] which won a U.S. National Book Award. [2]
Poem's title page from 1815 collection of Poems. "Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood" (also known as "Ode", "Immortality Ode" or "Great Ode") is a poem by William Wordsworth, completed in 1804 and published in Poems, in Two Volumes (1807). The poem was completed in two parts, with the first four stanzas ...
1996-10. Christoph von Dohnányi / Cleveland Orchestra – Michael Sachs, trumpet. Composed in 1996 for Michael Sachs, first trumpet of the Cleveland Orchestra. 1997 rev. 2002. Elegy for Cello and Orchestra. Premiered by John Williams, piano, and John Waltz, cello. Later arranged for cello and orchestra.
Stars at Tallapoosa. "Stars at Tallapoosa" is a poem from Wallace Stevens 's first book of poetry, Harmonium. It was first published in 1922, so it is in the public domain. [1] The lines are straight and swift between the stars. The criers, undulating the deep-oceaned phrase. The lines are much too dark and much too sharp.