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Lascelles Abercrombie
English poet, scholar, and teacher; first volume of poetry
Interludes and Poems published in 1908, followed by very productive 6-year period during which much of his best work was in the form of verse "closet dramas" (i. e., plays not intended for actual performance), including The Sale of St. Thomas: Act I in 1911 and The End of the World in 1914; declared physically unfit for military service, worked as munitions inspector during World War I; beginning in 1919, received appointments as lecturer and reader at Leeds, London, and finally Oxford Universities; wrote a number of scholarly works including English Prosody (1929) and Poetry: Its Music and Meaning (1932); his work and ideas highly influential on British poets of 1920s and 1930s; Collected Poems published by Oxford in 1930, and the completed version of his finest work, The Sale of St. Thomas, in 1931.
Franklin Pierce Adams
American poet, humorist, playwright, syndicated columnist, and radio personality; wrote columns noted for their learning, satire, and wit for (successively) New York Evening Mail, New York Tribune, New York World, New York Herald-Tribune,and New York Post; collaborated in 1909 with O. Henry on Lo, a Broadway musical comedy, and involved with other plays, as well; during the late 1930s and 1940s, appeared as a regular panel member on a number of national radio quiz programs such as Information Please!; his books included Tobogganing on Parnassus (1911), In Other Words (1914), Weights and Measures (1917), Something Else Again (1920), So There! (1922), Half a Loaf (1927),and Diary of Our Own Samuel Pepys (1935).
Henry Brooks Adams
American poet, novelist, journalist, editor, teacher, biographer, and historian; grandson of John Quincy Adams and great-grandson of John Adams; educated at Harvard, and in Berlin and Dresden; worked as journalist in London and Washington; taught history at Harvard 1870-1877; edited North American Review 1870-1876; published Democracy, a novel attacking govermental corruption in 1880; another novel Esther published 1884; published biographies of Albert Gallatin (1879), John Randolph (1882) and George Cabot Lodge (1911); traveled widely in Europe, Egypt, Japan, the South Pacific (meeting Robert Louis Stevenson in Samoa), Cuba, and Mexico; published his most important historical work History of the United States During the Administrations of Thomas Jefferson and James Madison in nine volumes between 1889 and 1891; best known works Mont Saint Michel and Chartres (1904) and The Education of Henry Adams (1907) originally published privately; trade edition of The Education awarded Pulitzer Prize posthumously.
John Quincy Adams
American poet, diplomat, sixth President of the United States; son of the second President John Adams; educated in Paris, Amsterdam, Leyden, and at Harvard; served as minister to the Netherlands (1794-1797), Prussia (1797-1801), Russia (1809-1814), and Great Britain (1815-1817); chief American negotiator of Treaty of Ghent which ended the War of 1812 (1814); Secretary of State under Monroe (1817-1825); President (1825-1829); elected to House of Representatives 1830, serving until his death (the only former President to serve in the House), during which time he actively supported the abolition of slavery.
Sarah Flower Adams
English poet and hymnist; most significant work was Vivia Perpetua (1841), a closet drama about the title character''s conversion to Christianity; wrote a number of poems, most not published until after her death, on social and political subjects for the Anti-Corn Law League; best known for her hymns which were set to music by her sister.
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Published: September 29, 2007
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