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W. H. Davies

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William Henry Davies or W. H. Davies (3 July 1871 – 26 September 1940) was a Welsh poet and writer. [1]

155 relations: Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Alston Rivers, Alvin Langdon Coburn, Annie Jessy Curwen, Ariel poems (Faber), Arthur Balfour, Arthur Bliss, Arthur St John Adcock, Arts Council of Wales, Atlantic Ocean, Augustus John, Austin Osman Spare, Autograph, Baptists, BBC, Birching, Bloomsbury, Boodle, Boosey & Hawkes, Bournemouth, Brook Street, Carcanet Press, Caversham Park, Charles Dickens, Chelsea Physic Garden, Chelsea, London, Cheltenham, Civil list, Clavichord, Compulsory purchase order, Conrad Aiken, Cornwall, D. H. Lawrence, Daily Chronicle, Daily Mail, Daniel Defoe, Dora Batty, Dr. Strangely Strange, Dragonfly (Fleetwood Mac song), Duckworth Overlook, East Grinstead, Edgware Road, Edith Sitwell, Edward Carrick, Edward Garnett, Edward Marsh (polymath), Edward Thomas (poet), Elizabeth Montgomery Wilmot, Ernest Benn, Ezra Pound, ..., Faber and Faber, First day of issue, Fleetwood Mac, Flophouse, Fred Hando, Frieda Lawrence, G minor, General Post Office, George Bernard Shaw, George Borrow, Georgian Poetry, Gerald Brenan, Gloucestershire County Council, Godfrey Morgan, 1st Viscount Tredegar, Great Russell Street, Half crown (British coin), Harold Gilman, Harpsichord, Henry Irving, Hilaire Belloc, Hobo, Honorary degree, Hotel Café Royal, Ironmongery, Jack the Ripper, Jacob Epstein, John Gawsworth, John Keats, John Masefield, John Milton, Jonathan Cape, Karl Parsons, Klondike Gold Rush, Lady Randolph Churchill, Laura Knight, Leisure (poem), List of Edinburgh festivals, Lord Byron, Malaria, Marble Arch, Memphis, Tennessee, Michael Head (composer), Michigan, Moldmaker, Monmouthshire (historic), Nailsworth, National Library of Wales, Nether Lypiatt Manor, New Statesman, Newport city centre, Newport Museum, Newport, Wales, Nina Hamnett, Oliver Goldsmith, Osbert Sitwell, Oxted, Palace of Westminster, Pavilion Books, Peter Owen Publishers, Pillgwenlly, Project Gutenberg, Pump organ, Quakers, Renfrew, Ontario, Richard J. Stonesifer, River Thames, Robert Burns, Robert Herrick (poet), Sacheverell Sitwell, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Sevenoaks, Shelley, Siân Phillips, Soho, Southwark, Stephen Bone, Stroud, Stroud District Council, Sussex, Ted Garrett, The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp, The English Review, The Salvation Army, The Times, Thomas Campion, Tramp, Tribune (magazine), University of Wales, University of Wales Press, Veronica Wedgwood, Violet Gordon-Woodhouse, W. B. Yeats, Walter de la Mare, Walter Sickert, Welsh people, Westgate Hotel, Wheelwright, Who's Who (UK), William Blake, William Henry Hudson, William Nicholson (artist), William Rothenstein, William Shakespeare, William Wordsworth, Yale University Press. Expand index (105 more) »

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson (6 August 1809 – 6 October 1892) was Poet Laureate of Great Britain and Ireland during much of Queen Victoria's reign and remains one of the most popular British poets.

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Alston Rivers

Alston Rivers Ltd. was a London publishing firm.

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Alvin Langdon Coburn

Alvin Langdon Coburn (June 11, 1882 – November 23, 1966) was an early 20th-century photographer who became a key figure in the development of American pictorialism.

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Annie Jessy Curwen

Annie Jessy Curwen (1845 – 22 April 1932), born Annie Jessy Gregg, usually known from her books as Mrs.

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Ariel poems (Faber)

The Ariel Poems were two series of pamphlets that contained illustrated poems published by Faber and Gwyer and later by Faber and Faber.

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Arthur Balfour

Arthur James Balfour, 1st Earl of Balfour, (25 July 184819 March 1930) was a British statesman of the Conservative Party who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1902 to 1905.

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Arthur Bliss

Sir Arthur Edward Drummond Bliss (2 August 189127 March 1975) was an English composer and conductor.

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Arthur St John Adcock

Arthur St John Adcock (17 January 1864 – 9 June 1930) was an English novelist and poet, known as A. St John Adcock or St John Adcock.

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Arts Council of Wales

The Arts Council of Wales (ACW; Cyngor Celfyddydau Cymru) is a Welsh Government-sponsored body, responsible for funding and developing the arts in Wales.

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Atlantic Ocean

The Atlantic Ocean is the second largest of the world's oceans with a total area of about.

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Augustus John

Augustus Edwin John (4 January 1878 – 31 October 1961) was a Welsh painter, draughtsman, and etcher.

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Austin Osman Spare

Austin Osman Spare (30 December 1886 – 15 May 1956) was an English artist and occultist who worked as both a draughtsman and a painter.

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Autograph

Autograph is a famous person's artistic signature.

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Baptists

Baptists are Christians distinguished by baptizing professing believers only (believer's baptism, as opposed to infant baptism), and doing so by complete immersion (as opposed to affusion or sprinkling).

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BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster.

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Birching

Birching is a corporal punishment with a birch rod, typically applied to the recipient's bare buttocks, although occasionally to the back and/or shoulders.

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Bloomsbury

Bloomsbury is an area of the London Borough of Camden, between Euston Road and Holborn.

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Boodle

Boodle is a slang term for money derived from the Dutch word 'boedel' meaning property or estate.

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Boosey & Hawkes

Boosey & Hawkes is a British music publisher purported to be the largest specialist classical music publisher in the world.

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Bournemouth

Bournemouth is a large coastal resort town on the south coast of England to the east of the Jurassic Coast, a World Heritage Site, long.

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Brook Street

Brook Street is one of the principal streets on the Grosvenor Estate in the exclusive central London district of Mayfair.

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Carcanet Press

Carcanet Press is a publisher, primarily of poetry, based in the United Kingdom and founded in 1969 by Michael Schmidt.

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Caversham Park

Caversham Park is a Victorian stately home with parkland in the suburb of Caversham, on the outskirts of Reading, England.

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Charles Dickens

Charles John Huffam Dickens (7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic.

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Chelsea Physic Garden

The Chelsea Physic Garden was established as the Apothecaries' Garden in London, England, in 1673.

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Chelsea, London

Chelsea is an affluent area of South West London, bounded to the south by the River Thames.

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Cheltenham

Cheltenham, also known as Cheltenham Spa, is a regency spa town and borough which is located on the edge of the Cotswolds, an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty in Gloucestershire, England.

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Civil list

A civil list is a list of individuals to whom money is paid by the government.

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Clavichord

The clavichord is a European stringed keyboard instrument that was used largely in the late Medieval, through the Renaissance, Baroque and Classical eras.

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Compulsory purchase order

A compulsory purchase order (CPO) is a legal function in the United Kingdom and Ireland that allows certain bodies which need to obtain land or property to do so without the consent of the owner.

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Conrad Aiken

Conrad Potter Aiken (August 5, 1889 – August 17, 1973) was an American writer, whose work includes poetry, short stories, novels, a play, and an autobiography.

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Cornwall

Cornwall (Kernow) is a county in South West England in the United Kingdom.

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D. H. Lawrence

Herman Melville, Friedrich Nietzsche, Arthur Schopenhauer, Lev Shestov, Walt Whitman | influenced.

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Daily Chronicle

The Daily Chronicle was a British newspaper that was published from 1872 to 1930 when it merged with the Daily News to become the News Chronicle.

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Daily Mail

The Daily Mail is a British daily middle-marketPeter Wilby, New Statesman, 19 December 2013 (online version: 2 January 2014) tabloid newspaper owned by the Daily Mail and General Trust and published in London.

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Daniel Defoe

Daniel Defoe (13 September 1660 - 24 April 1731), born Daniel Foe, was an English trader, writer, journalist, pamphleteer and spy.

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Dora Batty

Dora Margaret Batty (January 1891 – 10 July 1966)England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1966, 1973-1995 was a British designer, working in illustration, poster design, pottery and textiles.

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Dr. Strangely Strange

Dr.

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Dragonfly (Fleetwood Mac song)

"Dragonfly" is a song written by British rock musician Danny Kirwan with lyrics taken from a poem by Welsh poet W. H. Davies.

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Duckworth Overlook

Duckworth Overlook, originally Gerald Duckworth and Company, founded in 1898 by Gerald Duckworth, is an independent British publisher.

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East Grinstead

East Grinstead is a town and civil parish in the northeastern corner of Mid Sussex district of West Sussex in England near the East Sussex, Surrey, and Kent borders.

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Edgware Road

Edgware Road is a major road through north-west London, starting at Marble Arch in the City of Westminster (south end) and running north to Edgware in the London Borough of Barnet.

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Edith Sitwell

Dame Edith Louisa Sitwell DBE (7 September 1887 – 9 December 1964) was a British poet and critic and the eldest of the three literary Sitwells.

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Edward Carrick

Edward Carrick (born Edward Anthony Craig; 3 January 1905 – 21 January 1998) was an English art designer for film, an author and illustrator.

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Edward Garnett

Edward William Garnett (1868–1937) was an English writer, critic and literary editor, who was instrumental in getting D. H. Lawrence's Sons and Lovers published.

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Edward Marsh (polymath)

Sir Edward Howard Marsh (18 November 1872 – 13 January 1953) was a British polymath, translator, arts patron and civil servant.

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Edward Thomas (poet)

Philip Edward Thomas (3 March 1878 – 9 April 1917) was a British poet, essayist, and novelist.

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Elizabeth Montgomery Wilmot

Elizabeth Montgomery Wilmot (18 February 1902 – 17 May 1993) was an English artist who earned fame as a theatre and opera costume and scenic designer.

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Ernest Benn

Sir Ernest John Pickstone Benn, 2nd Baronet, (25 June 1875 – 17 January 1954) was a British publisher, writer and political publicist.

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Ezra Pound

Ezra Weston Loomis Pound (30 October 1885 – 1 November 1972) was an expatriate American poet and critic, as well as a major figure in the early modernist poetry movement.

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Faber and Faber

Faber and Faber Limited, often abbreviated to Faber, is an independent publishing house in the United Kingdom.

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First day of issue

A first day of issue cover or first day cover (FDC) is a postage stamp on a cover, postal card or stamped envelope franked on the first day the issue is authorized for useBennett, Russell and Watson, James; Philatelic Terms Illustrated, Stanley Gibbons Publications, London (1978) within the country or territory of the stamp-issuing authority.

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Fleetwood Mac

Fleetwood Mac are a British-American rock band, formed in London in 1967.

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Flophouse

A flophouse (American English), doss-house, or dosshouse (British English) is a place that offers very cheap lodging, generally by providing only minimal services.

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Fred Hando

Frederick James "Fred" Hando MBE (23 March 1888 – 17 February 1970) was a Welsh writer, artist and schoolteacher from Newport who chronicled the history, character and folklore of Monmouthshire (which he also called Gwent), in a series of over 800 articles and several books published between the 1920s and 1960s.

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Frieda Lawrence

Frieda Lawrence (August 11, 1879 – August 11, 1956), born Frieda Freiin von Richthofen, was a German literary figure mainly known for her marriage to the British novelist D. H. Lawrence.

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G minor

G minor is a minor scale based on G, consisting of the pitches G, A, flat, C, D, Eflat, and F. Its key signature has two flats.

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General Post Office

The General Post Office (GPO) was officially established in England in 1660 by Charles II and it eventually grew to combine the functions of state postal system and telecommunications carrier.

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George Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856 – 2 November 1950), known at his insistence simply as Bernard Shaw, was an Irish playwright, critic, polemicist, and political activist.

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George Borrow

George Henry Borrow (5 July 1803 – 26 July 1881) was an English writer of novels and of travel books based on his own experiences in Europe.

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Georgian Poetry

Georgian Poetry refers to a series of anthologies showcasing the work of a school of British poetry that established itself during the early years of the reign of King George V of the United Kingdom.

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Gerald Brenan

Edward FitzGerald "Gerald" Brenan, CBE (7 April 1894 – 19 January 1987) was a British writer and Hispanist who spent much of his life in Spain.

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Gloucestershire County Council

Gloucestershire County Council is a county council which administers the most strategic local government services in the non-metropolitan county of Gloucestershire, in the South West of England.

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Godfrey Morgan, 1st Viscount Tredegar

Godfrey Charles Morgan, 1st Viscount Tredegar (28 April 1831 – 11 March 1913) was a British Army officer and peer.

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Great Russell Street

Great Russell Street is a street in Bloomsbury, London, best known for being the location of the British Museum.

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Half crown (British coin)

The half crown was a denomination of British money, equivalent to two shillings and sixpence, or one-eighth of a pound.

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Harold Gilman

Harold John Wilde Gilman (11 February 187612 February 1919) was a British painter of interiors, portraits and landscapes, and a founder-member of the Camden Town Group.

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Harpsichord

A harpsichord is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard which activates a row of levers that in turn trigger a mechanism that plucks one or more strings with a small plectrum.

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Henry Irving

Sir Henry Irving (6 February 1838 – 13 October 1905), born John Henry Brodribb, sometimes known as J. H. Irving, was an English stage actor in the Victorian era, known as an actor-manager because he took complete responsibility (supervision of sets, lighting, direction, casting, as well as playing the leading roles) for season after season at the Lyceum Theatre, establishing himself and his company as representative of English classical theatre.

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Hilaire Belloc

Joseph Hilaire Pierre René Belloc (27 July 187016 July 1953) was an Anglo-French writer and historian.

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Hobo

A hobo is a migrant worker or homeless vagrant, especially one who is impoverished.

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Honorary degree

An honorary degree, in Latin a degree honoris causa ("for the sake of the honor") or ad honorem ("to the honor"), is an academic degree for which a university (or other degree-awarding institution) has waived the usual requirements, such as matriculation, residence, a dissertation and the passing of comprehensive examinations.

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Hotel Café Royal

The Hotel Café Royal is a five-star hotel at 68 Regent Street in London's Piccadilly.

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Ironmongery

Ironmongery originally referred, first, to the manufacture of iron goods and, second, to the place of sale of such items for domestic rather than industrial use.

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Jack the Ripper

Jack the Ripper is the best-known name for an unidentified serial killer generally believed to have been active in the largely impoverished areas in and around the Whitechapel district of London in 1888.

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Jacob Epstein

Sir Jacob Epstein (10 November 1880 – 19 August 1959) was an American-British sculptor who helped pioneer modern sculpture.

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John Gawsworth

Terence Ian Fytton Armstrong (29 June 1912 – 23 September 1970), better known as John Gawsworth (and also sometimes known as T. I. F. Armstrong), was a British writer, poet and compiler of anthologies, both of poetry and of short stories.

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John Keats

John Keats (31 October 1795 – 23 February 1821) was an English Romantic poet.

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John Masefield

John Edward Masefield (1 June 1878 – 12 May 1967) English poet and writer, was Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom from 1930.

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John Milton

John Milton (9 December 16088 November 1674) was an English poet, polemicist, man of letters, and civil servant for the Commonwealth of England under its Council of State and later under Oliver Cromwell.

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Jonathan Cape

Jonathan Cape is a London publishing firm founded in 1921 by Herbert Jonathan Cape, who was head of the firm until his death in 1960.

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Karl Parsons

Karl Bergemann Parsons (1884–1934) was an English stained glass artist.

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Klondike Gold Rush

The Klondike Gold Rush was a migration by an estimated 100,000 prospectors to the Klondike region of the Yukon in north-western Canada between 1896 and 1899.

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Lady Randolph Churchill

Jennie Spencer-Churchill (9 January 1854 – 29 June 1921), known as Lady Randolph Churchill, was an American-born British socialite, the wife of Lord Randolph Churchill and the mother of British Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill.

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Laura Knight

Dame Laura Knight, (Johnson), (4 August 1877 – 7 July 1970) was an English artist who worked in oils, watercolours, etching, engraving and drypoint.

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Leisure (poem)

"Leisure" is a poem by Welsh poet W. H. Davies, appearing originally in his Songs Of Joy and Others, published in 1911 by A. C. Fifield and then in Davies' first anthology Collected Poems, by the same publisher in 1916.

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List of Edinburgh festivals

This is a list of arts and cultural festivals regularly taking place in Edinburgh, Scotland.

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Lord Byron

George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron (22 January 1788 – 19 April 1824), known as Lord Byron, was an English nobleman, poet, peer, politician, and leading figure in the Romantic movement.

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Malaria

Malaria is a mosquito-borne infectious disease affecting humans and other animals caused by parasitic protozoans (a group of single-celled microorganisms) belonging to the Plasmodium type.

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Marble Arch

Marble Arch is a 19th-century white marble faced triumphal arch in London, England.

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Memphis, Tennessee

Memphis is a city located along the Mississippi River in the southwestern corner of the U.S. state of Tennessee.

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Michael Head (composer)

Michael Head (28 January 190024 August 1976) was a British composer, pianist, organist and singer who left some enduring works still popular today.

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Michigan

Michigan is a state in the Great Lakes and Midwestern regions of the United States.

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Moldmaker

A moldmaker (mouldmaker in British English) or molder is a skilled trades worker who makes molds for use in metalworking and other manufacturing industries.

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Monmouthshire (historic)

Monmouthshire, also known as the County of Monmouth (Sir Fynwy), is one of thirteen historic counties of Wales and a former administrative county.

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Nailsworth

Nailsworth is a town and civil parish in Gloucestershire, England, lying in one of the Stroud Valleys in the Cotswolds, on the A46 road, south of Stroud.

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National Library of Wales

The National Library of Wales (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru), Aberystwyth, is the national legal deposit library of Wales and is one of the Welsh Government sponsored bodies.

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Nether Lypiatt Manor

Nether Lypiatt Manor is a compact, neo-Classical manor house in the mainly rural parish of Thrupp, near Stroud in Gloucestershire.

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New Statesman

The New Statesman is a British political and cultural magazine published in London.

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Newport city centre

Newport city centre is traditionally regarded as the area of Newport, Wales bounded by the west bank of the River Usk, the George Street Bridge, the eastern flank of Stow Hill and the South Wales Main Line.

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Newport Museum

Newport Museum and Art Gallery (known locally as the City Museum) is a museum, library and art gallery in the city of Newport, south Wales.

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Newport, Wales

Newport (Casnewydd) is a cathedral and university city and unitary authority area in south east Wales.

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Nina Hamnett

Nina Hamnett (14 February 1890 – 16 December 1956) was a Welsh artist and writer, and an expert on sailors' chanteys, who became known as the Queen of Bohemia.

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Oliver Goldsmith

Oliver Goldsmith (10 November 1728 – 4 April 1774) was an Irish novelist, playwright and poet, who is best known for his novel The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), his pastoral poem The Deserted Village (1770), and his plays The Good-Natur'd Man (1768) and She Stoops to Conquer (1771, first performed in 1773).

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Osbert Sitwell

Sir Francis Osbert Sacheverell Sitwell, 5th Baronet (6 December 1892 – 4 May 1969) was an English writer.

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Oxted

Oxted is a town and civil parish in the Tandridge district of Surrey, England, at the foot of the North Downs.

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Palace of Westminster

The Palace of Westminster is the meeting place of the House of Commons and the House of Lords, the two houses of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

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Pavilion Books

Pavilion Books Holdings Ltd is an English publishing company based in London.

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Peter Owen Publishers

Peter Owen Publishers is a family-run London-based independent publisher based in London, England.

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Pillgwenlly

Pillgwenlly (Pillgwenlli) is an electoral district (ward) and coterminous community parish in the city of Newport, South Wales.

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Project Gutenberg

Project Gutenberg (PG) is a volunteer effort to digitize and archive cultural works, to "encourage the creation and distribution of eBooks".

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Pump organ

The pump organ, reed organ, harmonium, or melodeon is a type of free-reed organ that generates sound as air flows past a vibrating piece of thin metal in a frame.

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Quakers

Quakers (or Friends) are members of a historically Christian group of religious movements formally known as the Religious Society of Friends or Friends Church.

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Renfrew, Ontario

Renfrew, Ontario, Canada, is a town on the Bonnechere River in Renfrew County.

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Richard J. Stonesifer

Richard James Stonesifer (June 21, 1922–January, 1999) was the fifth President of Monmouth University.

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River Thames

The River Thames is a river that flows through southern England, most notably through London.

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Robert Burns

Robert Burns (25 January 175921 July 1796), also known as Rabbie Burns, the Bard of Ayrshire, Ploughman Poet and various other names and epithets, was a Scottish poet and lyricist.

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Robert Herrick (poet)

Robert Herrick (baptised 24 August 1591 – buried 15 October 1674) was a 17th-century English lyric poet and cleric.

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Sacheverell Sitwell

Sir Sacheverell Reresby Sitwell, 6th Baronet (15 November 1897 – 1 October 1988) was an English writer, best known as an art critic, music critic (his books on Mozart, Liszt, and Domenico Scarlatti are still consulted), and writer on architecture, particularly the baroque.

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (21 October 177225 July 1834) was an English poet, literary critic, philosopher and theologian who, with his friend William Wordsworth, was a founder of the Romantic Movement in England and a member of the Lake Poets.

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Sevenoaks

Sevenoaks is a town and civil parish with a population of 29,506 situated south-east of London in western Kent, England.

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Shelley

In many baby name books, Shelley is listed as meaning "From the meadow on the ledge" or "clearing on a bank" sometimes truthful and pretty.

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Siân Phillips

Dame Jane Elizabeth Ailwên Phillips, (born 14 May 1933), known professionally as Siân Phillips, is a Welsh actress, author and singer.

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Soho

Soho is an area of the City of Westminster, part of the West End of London.

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Southwark

Southwark is a district of Central London and part of the London Borough of Southwark.

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Stephen Bone

Stephen Bone (13 November 1904 – 15 September 1958) was an English painter, writer, broadcaster and noted war artist.

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Stroud

Stroud is a market town and civil parish in the centre of Gloucestershire, England.

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Stroud District Council

Stroud District Council is the local authority for Stroud District.

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Sussex

Sussex, from the Old English Sūþsēaxe (South Saxons), is a historic county in South East England corresponding roughly in area to the ancient Kingdom of Sussex.

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Ted Garrett

William Edward Garrett (21 March 1920 – 30 May 1993) was a British Labour Party politician.

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The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp

The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp is an autobiography published in 1908 by the Welsh poet and writer W. H. Davies (1871–1940).

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The English Review

The English Review was an English-language literary magazine published in London from 1908 to 1937.

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The Salvation Army

The Salvation Army is a Protestant Christian church and an international charitable organisation structured in a quasi-military fashion.

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The Times

The Times is a British daily (Monday to Saturday) national newspaper based in London, England.

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Thomas Campion

Thomas Campion (sometimes Campian; 12 February 1567 – 1 March 1620) was an English composer, poet, and physician.

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Tramp

A tramp is a long-term homeless person who travels from place to place as a vagrant, traditionally walking all year round.

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Tribune (magazine)

Tribune was a democratic socialist fortnightly magazine, founded in 1937 and published in London.

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University of Wales

The University of Wales (Welsh: Prifysgol Cymru) was a confederal university based in Cardiff, Wales, UK.

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University of Wales Press

The University of Wales Press (Gwasg Prifysgol Cymru) was founded in 1922 as a central service of the University of Wales.

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Veronica Wedgwood

Dame Cicely Veronica Wedgwood, (20 July 1910 – 9 March 1997) was an English historian who published under the name C. V. Wedgwood.

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Violet Gordon-Woodhouse

Violet Gordon-Woodhouse (23 April 18729 January 1948) was a British harpsichordist and clavichordist, influential in bringing both instruments back into fashion.

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W. B. Yeats

William Butler Yeats (13 June 186528 January 1939) was an Irish poet and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature.

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Walter de la Mare

Walter John de la Mare (25 April 1873 – 22 June 1956) was a British poet, short story writer and novelist.

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Walter Sickert

Walter Richard Sickert (31 May 186022 January 1942) was an English painter and printmaker who was a member of the Camden Town Group in London.

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Welsh people

The Welsh (Cymry) are a nation and ethnic group native to, or otherwise associated with, Wales, Welsh culture, Welsh history, and the Welsh language.

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Westgate Hotel

The Westgate Hotel is a Grade II listed hotel in Newport city centre, whose name and site is famous as the scene of the 1839 Chartist riot, also called the Newport Rising.

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Wheelwright

A wheelwright is a craftsman who builds or repairs wooden wheels.

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Who's Who (UK)

Who's Who is a leading source of biographical data on more than 33,000 influential people from around the world.

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William Blake

William Blake (28 November 1757 – 12 August 1827) was an English poet, painter, and printmaker.

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William Henry Hudson

William Henry Hudson (4 August 1841 – 18 August 1922) was an author, naturalist, and ornithologist.

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William Nicholson (artist)

Sir William Newzam Prior Nicholson (5 February 1872 – 16 May 1949) was a British painter of still-life, landscape and portraits.

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William Rothenstein

Sir William Rothenstein (29 January 1872 – 14 February 1945) was an English painter, printmaker, draughtsman, lecturer, and writer on art.

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William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare (26 April 1564 (baptised)—23 April 1616) was an English poet, playwright and actor, widely regarded as both the greatest writer in the English language, and the world's pre-eminent dramatist.

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William Wordsworth

William Wordsworth (7 April 1770 – 23 April 1850) was a major English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with their joint publication Lyrical Ballads (1798).

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Yale University Press

Yale University Press is a university press associated with Yale University.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._H._Davies

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