(Encyclopedia) Chandos, Sir JohnChandos, Sir Johnshănˈdŏs, chănˈ– [key], d. 1370, English soldier and administrator of English territories in France. A friend of Edward the Black Prince, he won…
(Encyclopedia) Seely, John Edward Bernard, 1st baron of Mottistone, 1868–1947, British politician. He served in the South African War and entered Parliament as a Conservative in 1900. Having switched…
(Encyclopedia) Dowden, EdwardDowden, Edwarddouˈdən [key], 1843–1913, English critic, b. Ireland. He is best known as a Shakespearean scholar and as a biographer of Shelley (1886).
by JohnKeatsOn the Grasshopper and CricketHappy is England! I could be contentTo Kosciusko Good Kosciusko, thy great name alone
Is a full harvest whence to reap high feeling;
It comes…
by John Keats Ode to PsycheBards of passion and of mirthFancy Ever let the Fancy roam,
Pleasure never is at home:
At a touch sweet Pleasure melteth,
Like to bubbles when rain…
(Encyclopedia) Weston, Edward, 1886–1958, American photographer, b. Highland Park, Ill. Weston began to make photographs in Chicago parks in 1902, and his works were first exhibited in 1903 at the…
(Encyclopedia) Feckenham, John deFeckenham, John defĕkˈənəm [key], 1518?–1585, English abbot. He became a Benedictine monk at Evesham, studied at Oxford, and later served as chaplain to the bishop of…
by JohnKeatsPoems 1817Contents"What more felicity can fall to creature,To Leigh Hunt, Esq."Places of nestling green for Poets made."Specimen of an Induction to a PoemCalidoreTo Some LadiesOn…
(Encyclopedia) Edward VII (Albert Edward), 1841–1910, king of Great Britain and Ireland (1901–10). The eldest son of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, he was created prince of Wales almost…
