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58 relations: Alice Mary Smith, Augustan literature, Baghdad, Benjamin Cooke, Blue plaque, Caucasus, Charles Dickens, Chichester, Chichester Cathedral, Circassia, Cymbeline, David Garrick, Eclogue, Edmund Spenser, Elijah Waring, ENotes, Frederic Hymen Cowen, Georgia (country), Glee (music), Granville Bantock, Great Expectations, Heroic couplet, Jackson of Exeter, James Thomson (poet, born 1700), John Flaxman, John Gay, John Langhorne (poet), John Milton, John Scott of Amwell, Jonathan Swift, Joseph Warton, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Laura Wilson Barker, Li Bai, Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, Magdalen College, Oxford, Maria Hester Park, Mark Akenside, Ossian, Pastoral, Pindarics, Poet, Samuel Foote, Samuel Johnson, Sandro Jung, St Andrew-in-the-Oxmarket Church, Tang dynasty, The Prebendal School, Thomas Arne, Thomas Chatterton, ... Expand index (8 more) »
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Alice Mary Smith
Alice Mary Smith (married name Alice Mary Meadows White; 19 May 1839 – 4 December 1884) was an English composer.
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Augustan literature
Augustan literature (sometimes referred to misleadingly as Georgian literature) is a style of British literature produced during the reigns of Queen Anne, King George I, and George II in the first half of the 18th century and ending in the 1740s, with the deaths of Alexander Pope and Jonathan Swift, in 1744 and 1745, respectively.
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Baghdad
Baghdad (or; translit) is the capital of Iraq and the second-largest city in the Arab and in West Asia after Tehran.
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Benjamin Cooke
Benjamin Cooke (1734 – 14 September 1793) was an English composer, organist and teacher.
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Blue plaque
A blue plaque is a permanent sign installed in a public place in the United Kingdom, and certain other countries and territories, to commemorate a link between that location and a famous person, event, or former building on the site, serving as a historical marker.
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Caucasus
The Caucasus or Caucasia, is a transcontinental region between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea, mainly comprising Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, and parts of Southern Russia.
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Charles Dickens
Charles John Huffam Dickens (7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English novelist, journalist, short story writer and social critic.
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Chichester
Chichester is a cathedral city and civil parish in West Sussex, England.
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Chichester Cathedral
Chichester Cathedral, formally known as the Cathedral Church of the Holy Trinity, is the seat of the Anglican Bishop of Chichester.
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Circassia
Circassia, also known as Zichia, was a country and a historical region in the.
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Cymbeline
Cymbeline, also known as The Tragedie of Cymbeline or Cymbeline, King of Britain, is a play by William Shakespeare set in Ancient Britain and based on legends that formed part of the Matter of Britain concerning the early historical Celtic British King Cunobeline.
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David Garrick
David Garrick (19 February 1717 – 20 January 1779) was an English actor, playwright, theatre manager and producer who influenced nearly all aspects of European theatrical practice throughout the 18th century, and was a pupil and friend of Samuel Johnson.
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Eclogue
An eclogue is a poem in a classical style on a pastoral subject.
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Edmund Spenser
Edmund Spenser (1552/1553 – 13 January O.S. 1599) was an English poet best known for The Faerie Queene, an epic poem and fantastical allegory celebrating the Tudor dynasty and Elizabeth I. He is recognized as one of the premier craftsmen of nascent Modern English verse, and he is considered one of the great poets in the English language.
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Elijah Waring
Elijah Waring (14 April 1787 – 29 March 1857) was an Anglo-Welsh writer.
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ENotes
eNotes is a student and teacher educational website founded in 2004 by Brad Satoris and Alexander Bloomingdale, that provides material to help students complete homework assignments and study for exams.
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Frederic Hymen Cowen
Sir Frederic Hymen Cowen (29 January 1852 – 6 October 1935), was an English composer, conductor and pianist.
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Georgia (country)
Georgia is a transcontinental country in Eastern Europe and West Asia.
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Glee (music)
A glee is a type of English part song composed during the Late Baroque, Classical, and early Romantic periods (roughly the Georgian era, taken together).
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Granville Bantock
Sir Granville Ransome Bantock (7 August 186816 October 1946) was a British composer of classical music.
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Great Expectations
Great Expectations is the thirteenth novel by Charles Dickens and his penultimate completed novel.
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Heroic couplet
A heroic couplet is a traditional form for English poetry, commonly used in epic and narrative poetry, and consisting of a rhyming pair of lines in iambic pentameter.
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Jackson of Exeter
William Jackson (29 May 1730 – 5 July 1803), referred to as Jackson of Exeter, was an English organist and composer.
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James Thomson (poet, born 1700)
James Thomson (c. 11 September 1700 – 27 August 1748) was a Scottish poet and playwright, known for his poems The Seasons and The Castle of Indolence, and for the lyrics of "Rule, Britannia!".
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John Flaxman
John Flaxman (6 July 1755 – 7 December 1826) was a British sculptor and draughtsman, and a leading figure in British and European Neoclassicism.
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John Gay
John Gay (30 June 1685 – 4 December 1732) was an English poet and dramatist and member of the Scriblerus Club.
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John Langhorne (poet)
John Langhorne (March 1735 - 1 April 1779) was an English clergyman, poet, translator, editor and author.
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John Milton
John Milton (9 December 1608 – 8 November 1674) was an English poet, polemicist, and civil servant.
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John Scott of Amwell
John Scott (9 January 1731 – 12 December 1783), known as Scott of Amwell, was an English landscape gardener and writer on social matters.
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Jonathan Swift
Jonathan Swift (30 November 1667 – 19 October 1745) was an Anglo-Irish satirist, author, essayist, political pamphleteer (first for the Whigs, then for the Tories), poet, and Anglican cleric who became Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, hence his common sobriquet, "Dean Swift".
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Joseph Warton
Joseph Warton (April 1722 – 23 February 1800) was an English clergyman, academic, and literary critic.
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Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (née Pierrepont; 15 May 168921 August 1762) was an English aristocrat, medical pioneer, writer, and poet.
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Laura Wilson Barker
Laura Wilson Barker (6 March 1819 – 22 May 1905), was a composer, performer and artist, sometimes also referred to as Laura Barker, Laura W Taylor or "Mrs Tom Taylor".
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Li Bai
Li Bai (701–762), formerly pronounced Li Bo, courtesy name Taibai (太白), was a Chinese poet acclaimed as one of the greatest and most important poets of the Tang dynasty and in Chinese history as a whole.
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Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets
Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets (1779–81), alternatively known by the shorter title Lives of the Poets, is a work by Samuel Johnson comprising short biographies and critical appraisals of 52 poets, most of whom lived during the eighteenth century.
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Magdalen College, Oxford
Magdalen College is a constituent college of the University of Oxford.
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Maria Hester Park
Maria Hester Park (née Reynolds) (29 September 1760 – 7 June 1813) was a British composer, pianist, and singer.
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Mark Akenside
Mark Akenside (9 November 1721 – 23 June 1770) was an English poet and physician. William Collins (poet) and Mark Akenside are 1721 births.
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Ossian
Ossian (Irish Gaelic/Scottish Gaelic: Oisean) is the narrator and purported author of a cycle of epic poems published by the Scottish poet James Macpherson, originally as Fingal (1761) and Temora (1763), and later combined under the title The Poems of Ossian.
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Pastoral
The pastoral genre of literature, art, or music depicts an idealised form of the shepherd's lifestyle – herding livestock around open areas of land according to the seasons and the changing availability of water and pasture.
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Pindarics
Pindarics (alternatively Pindariques or Pindaricks) was a term for a class of loose and irregular odes greatly in fashion in England during the close of the 17th and the beginning of the 18th century.
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Poet
A poet is a person who studies and creates poetry.
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Samuel Foote
Samuel Foote (January 1720 – 21 October 1777) was a Cornish dramatist, actor and theatre manager.
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Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson (– 13 December 1784), often called Dr Johnson, was an English writer who made lasting contributions as a poet, playwright, essayist, moralist, literary critic, sermonist, biographer, editor, and lexicographer.
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Sandro Jung
Sandro Jung (born 1976) is a literary scholar and Fudan Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature and Director of the university-level Foreign Languages and Literature Institute at Fudan University.
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St Andrew-in-the-Oxmarket Church
St Andrew-in-the-Oxmarket Church (later known as the Chichester Centre of Arts and the Oxmarket Centre of Arts) is a former Anglican church in the centre of the cathedral city of Chichester in West Sussex, England.
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Tang dynasty
The Tang dynasty (唐朝), or the Tang Empire, was an imperial dynasty of China that ruled from 618 to 907, with an interregnum between 690 and 705.
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The Prebendal School
The Prebendal School is a private preparatory school in Chichester, situated adjacent to the Chichester Cathedral precinct.
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Thomas Arne
Thomas Augustine Arne (12 March 17105 March 1778) was an English composer.
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Thomas Chatterton
Thomas Chatterton (20 November 1752 – 24 August 1770) was an English poet whose precocious talents ended in suicide at age 17.
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Thomas Gray
Thomas Gray (26 December 1716 – 30 July 1771) was an English poet, letter-writer, and classical scholar at Cambridge University, being a fellow first of Peterhouse then of Pembroke College.
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Thomas Warton
Thomas Warton (9 January 172821 May 1790) was an English literary historian, critic, and poet.
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Venanzio Rauzzini
Venanzio Rauzzini (19 December 1746 – 8 April 1810) was an Italian castrato, composer, pianist, singing teacher and concert impresario.
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William Diaper
William Diaper (1685–1717) was an English clergyman, poet and translator of the Augustan era.
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William Hayes (composer)
William Hayes (1706 – 27 July 1777) was an English composer, organist, singer and conductor.
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William Hayley
William Hayley (9 November 174512 November 1820) was an English writer, best known as the biographer of his friend William Cowper. William Collins (poet) and William Hayley are People from Chichester.
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Winchester College
Winchester College is an English public school (a long-established fee-charging boarding school for pupils aged 13–18) with some provision for day attendees, in Winchester, Hampshire, England.
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Zoltán Kodály
Zoltán Kodály (Kodály Zoltán,; 16 December 1882 – 6 March 1967) was a Hungarian composer, ethnomusicologist, music pedagogue, linguist, and philosopher.
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See also
People educated at The Prebendal School
- Christina Bassadone
- Edward B. Titchener
- Horatio Nelson, 3rd Earl Nelson
- Isaac Waddington
- John Selden
- Lord Henry Lennox
- MacDonald Gill
- William Cawley
- William Collins (poet)
- William Juxon