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See also:SHENSTONE, See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
WILLIAM (1714-1763) , See also:English poet, son of See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
Thomas Shenstone and See also:Anne, daughter of William See also:Penn of Harborough See also:- HALL
- HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
- HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
- HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
- HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
- HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
- HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
- HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
- HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
- HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
- HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
- HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
- HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
- HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
- HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
- HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
- HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
- HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)
Hall, Hagley, was See also:born at the Leasowes, a See also:property in the See also:parish of See also:Halesowen, now in See also:Worcestershire, but then included in the See also:county of See also:Shropshire. At school he began a See also:life-See also:long friendship with See also:Richard See also:Jago, and at See also:Pembroke See also:College, See also:- OXFORD
- OXFORD, EARLS OF
- OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
- OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
- OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
- OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
- OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST
Oxford, where he matriculated in 1732, he made another See also:firm friend in Richard See also:Graves, the author of The Spiritual Quixote. He took no degree, but, while still at Oxford, he published for private circulation Poems on various occasions, written for the entertainment of the author (r737). This edition, containing the first draft of " The Schoolmistress," Shenstone tried hard to suppress, but in 1742 he published anonymously a revised See also:form of The Schoolmistress, a Poem in See also:imitation of See also:Spenser... . The See also:original was Sarah See also:Lloyd, teacher of the See also:village school where Shenstone received his first See also:education. See also:Isaac D'See also:Israeli pointed out that it should not be classed, as it was by See also:Robert See also:Dodsley, as a moral poem, but that it was intended as a See also:burlesque, to which Shenstone appended in the first instance a " ludicrous See also:index." In 1741 he published The See also:Judgment of See also:Hercules. He inherited the Leasowes See also:estate, and retired there in 1745 to undertake what proved the See also:chief See also:work of his life, the beautifying of his property. He embarked on elaborate schemes of landscape gardening which gave the Leasowes a wide celebrity, but sadly impoverished the owner. Shenstone was not a contented recluse. He desired See also:constant admiration of his gardens, and he never ceased to lament his lack of fame as a poet.
Shenstone's poems of nature were written in praise of her most artificial aspects, but the emotions they See also:express were obviously genuine. His Schoolmistress was admired by See also:Goldsmith, with whom Shenstone had much in See also:common, and his `•` Elegies" written at various times and to some extent See also:biographical in See also:character won the praise of Robert See also:Burns who, in the See also:preface to Poems, chiefly in the Scottish See also:Dialect (1786), called him " that celebrated poet whose divine elegies do See also:honour to our See also:language, our nation and our See also:species." The best example of purely technical skill in his See also:works is perhaps his success in the management of the anapaestic trimeter in his "See also:Pastoral Ballad in Four Parts " (written in 1743), but first printed in Dodsley's Collection of Poems (vol. iv., 1755). Shenstone died unmarried on the rrth of See also:February 1763.
His works were first published by his friend Robert Dodsley (3 vols., 1764-1769). The second See also:volume contains Dodsley's description of the Leasowes. The last, consisting of See also:correspondence with Graves, Jago and others, appeared after Dodsley's See also:death. Other letters of Shenstone's are included in Select Letters (ed. Thomas Hill1778). The letters of See also:Lady Luxborough (nee Henrietta St See also:John) to Shenstone were printed by T. Dodsley in 1775; much additional correspondence is preserved in the See also:British Museum—letters to Lady Luxborough (Add. MS. 28958), Dodsley's letters to Shenstone (Add. MS. 28959), and correspondence between Shenstone and See also:Bishop See also:Percy from 1757 to 1763—the last being of especial See also:interest. To Shenstone was due the original See also:suggestion of Percy's Reliques, a service which would alone entitle him to a See also:place among the precursors of the romantic See also:movement in English literature. See also Richard Graves, Recollections of some particulars in the Life of the See also:Late William Shenstone (1788); H. See also:Sydney Grazebrook, The See also:Family of Shenstone the Poet (189o) ; See also:Lennox See also:Morison, " Shenstone," in the See also:Gentleman's See also:Magazine (vol. 289, 1900, pp. 196-205) ; A. See also:Chalmers, English Poets (1810, vol. xiii.), with ' Life " by See also:Samuel See also:- JOHNSON, ANDREW
- JOHNSON, ANDREW (1808–1875)
- JOHNSON, BENJAMIN (c. 1665-1742)
- JOHNSON, EASTMAN (1824–1906)
- JOHNSON, REVERDY (1796–1876)
- JOHNSON, RICHARD (1573–1659 ?)
- JOHNSON, RICHARD MENTOR (1781–1850)
- JOHNSON, SAMUEL (1709-1784)
- JOHNSON, SIR THOMAS (1664-1729)
- JOHNSON, SIR WILLIAM (1715–1774)
- JOHNSON, THOMAS
Johnson; his Poetical Works (See also:Edinburgh, 1854), with " Life " by G. See also:Gilfillan; T. D'Israeli, " The Domestic Life of a Poet—Shenstone vindicated," in Curiosities of Literature; and " Burns and Shenstone," in See also:Furth in See also:- FIELD (a word common to many West German languages, cf. Ger. Feld, Dutch veld, possibly cognate with O.E. f olde, the earth, and ultimately with root of the Gr. irAaror, broad)
- FIELD, CYRUS WEST (1819-1892)
- FIELD, DAVID DUDLEY (18o5-1894)
- FIELD, EUGENE (1850-1895)
- FIELD, FREDERICK (18o1—1885)
- FIELD, HENRY MARTYN (1822-1907)
- FIELD, JOHN (1782—1837)
- FIELD, MARSHALL (183 1906)
- FIELD, NATHAN (1587—1633)
- FIELD, STEPHEN JOHNSON (1816-1899)
- FIELD, WILLIAM VENTRIS FIELD, BARON (1813-1907)
Field (1894), by " See also:Hugh See also:Haliburton " (J. L. See also:Robertson).
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