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    The Poetry Of Henry Newbolt: "Princes of courtesy, merciful, proud and strong."
    The Poetry Of Henry Newbolt: "Princes of courtesy, merciful, proud and strong."
    The Poetry Of Henry Newbolt: "Princes of courtesy, merciful, proud and strong."
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    Poetry is a fascinating use of language. With almost a million words at its command it is not surprising that these Isles have produced some of the most beautiful, moving and descriptive verse through the centuries. In this series we look at individual poets who have shaped and influenced their craft and cement their place in our heritage. In this volume we look at the works of the English poet Henry John Newbolt. Born in Bilston, Wolverhampton on June 6th, 1862. The son of the vicar of St Mary's Church, the Rev. Henry Francis Newbolt, and his second wife, Emily. After his father's death, the family moved to Walsall, where Henry was educated. First at Queen Mary's Grammar School and then Caistor Grammar School, from where a scholarship took him to Clifton College, where he was head of the school (1881) and edited the school magazine. He married Margaret Edina Duckworth of the prominent publishing family; they had two children; a boy, Francis and a daughter, Celia. However behind the prim Edwardian exterior lay a complicated domestic life: a ménage à trois. His wife had a long running lesbian affair with her childhood love, Ella Coltman, who accompanied them on their honeymoon. As an artist he is most widely known for the classic poem of Empire – Vitai Lampada, written in 1892. The title is from a quotation by Lucretius meaning 'the torch of life'. It refers to how a schoolboy, a future soldier, learns selfless commitment to duty in cricket matches in the famous Close at Clifton College. He was to write several novels but it is his poetry which caught the public’s attention and we have gathered together the best of his work here in this volume. Newbolt was knighted in 1915 and made a Companion of Honour in 1922. He died at his home in Campden Hill, Kensington on April 19th 1938, aged 75 and was buried in the churchyard of St Mary’s Church on an island in the lake of the Orchardleigh Estate of the Duckworth family in Somerset. Many of the poems are also available as an audiobook from our sister company Portable Poetry. Many samples are at our youtube channel http://www.youtube.com/user/PortablePoetry?feature=mhee The full volume can be purchased from iTunes, Amazon and other digital stores. Among the readers are Richard Mitchley and Ghizela Rowe

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    Release dateSep 24, 2013
    ISBN9781780005645
    The Poetry Of Henry Newbolt: "Princes of courtesy, merciful, proud and strong."

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      The Poetry Of Henry Newbolt - Henry Newbolt

      The Poetry Of Henry Newbolt

      Poetry is a fascinating use of language.  With almost a million words at its command it is not surprising that these Isles have produced some of the most beautiful, moving and descriptive verse through the centuries.  In this series we look at individual poets who have shaped and influenced their craft and cement their place in our heritage.  In this volume we look at the works of the English poet Henry John Newbolt.

      Born in Bilston, Wolverhampton on June 6th, 1862.  The son of the vicar of St Mary's Church, the Rev. Henry Francis Newbolt, and his second wife, Emily.   After his father's death, the family moved to Walsall, where Henry was educated.   First  at Queen Mary's Grammar School and then Caistor Grammar School, from where a scholarship took him to Clifton College, where he was head of the school (1881) and edited the school magazine.

      He married Margaret Edina Duckworth of the prominent publishing family; they had two children; a boy, Francis and a daughter, Celia.  However behind the prim Edwardian exterior lay a complicated domestic life: a ménage à trois. His wife had a long running lesbian affair with her childhood love, Ella Coltman, who accompanied them their honeymoon.

      As an artist he is most widely known for the classic poem of Empire – Vitai Lampada, written in 1892.  The title is from a quotation by Lucretius meaning  'the torch of life'.  It refers to how a schoolboy, a future soldier, learns selfless commitment to duty in cricket matches in the famous Close at Clifton College.   He was to write several novels but it is his poetry which caught the public’s attention and we have gathered together the best of his work here in this volume.

      Newbolt was knighted in 1915 and made a Companion of Honour in 1922.  He died at his home in Campden Hill, Kensington on April 19th 1938, aged 75 and was buried in the churchyard of St Mary’s Church on an island in the lake of the Orchardleigh Estate of the Duckworth family in Somerset.

      Many of the poems are also available as an audiobook from our sister company Portable Poetry.  Many samples are at our youtube channel   http://www.youtube.com/user/PortablePoetry?feature=mhee  The full volume can be purchased from iTunes, Amazon and other digital stores.  Among the readers are Richard Mitchley and Ghizela Rowe

      Index Of Poems

      Drake's Drum

      The Fighting Téméraire

      Admirals All

      San Stefano

      Hawke

      The Bright Medusa

      The Old Superb

      The Quarter-Gunner's Yarn

      Northumberland

      For A Trafalgar Cenotaph

      Craven

      Messmates

      The Death Of Admiral Blake

      Væ Victis

      Minora Sidera

      Laudabunt Alii

      Admiral Death

      Homeward Bound

      Gillespie.

      Seringapatam

      A Ballad Of John Nicholson

      The Guides At Cabul

      The Gay Gordons

      He Fell Among Thieves

      Ionicus

      The Non-Combatant

      Clifton Chapel

      Vitaï Lampada

      The Vigil

      The Sailing Of The Long-Ships

      Waggon Hill

      The Volunteer

      The Only Son

      The Grenadier's Good-Bye

      The Schoolfellow

      On Spion Kop

      The School At War

      By The Hearth-Stone

      Peace

      April On Waggon Hill

      Commemoration

      The Echo

      The Best School Of All

      England

      Victoria Regina

      The King Of England

      The Nile

      Sráhmandázi

      Outward Bound

      Hope The Hornblower

      O Pulchritudo

      In July

      From Generation To Generation

      When I Remember

      Rondel 1

      Rondel 2

      Balade

      The Last Word

      The Viking's Song

      The Sufi In The City

      Yattendon

      Among The Tombs

      A Sower

      A Song Of Exmoor

      Fidele's Grassy Tomb

      Moonset

      Master And Man

      Gavotte

      Imogen

      Nel Mezzo Del Cammin

      The Invasion

      Pereunt Et Imputantur

      Felix Antonius

      Ireland, Ireland

      Hymn

      The Building Of The Temple

      Drake's Drum

      Drake he's in his hammock an' a thousand miles away,

      (Capten, art tha sleepin' there below?)

      Slung atween the round shot in Nombre Dios Bay,

      An' dreamin' arl the time O' Plymouth Hoe.

      Yarnder lumes the Island, yarnder lie the ships,

      Wi' sailor lads a-dancing' heel-an'-toe,

      An' the shore-lights flashin', an' the night-tide dashin',

      He sees et arl so plainly as he saw et long ago.

      Drake he was a Devon man, an' rüled the Devon seas,

      (Capten, art tha' sleepin' there below?)

      Roving' tho' his death fell, he went wi' heart at ease,

      An' dreamin' arl the time o' Plymouth Hoe.

      "Take my drum to England, hang et by the shore,

      Strike et when your powder's runnin' low;

      If the Dons sight Devon, I'll quit the port o' Heaven,

      An' drum them up the Channel as we drummed them long ago."

      Drake he's in his hammock till the great Armadas come,

      (Capten, art tha sleepin' there below?)

      Slung atween the round shot, listenin' for the drum,

      An' dreamin arl the time o' Plymouth Hoe.

      Call him on the deep sea, call him up the Sound,

      Call him when ye sail to meet the foe;

      Where the old trade's plyin' an' the old flag flyin'

      They shall find him ware an' wakin', as they found him long ago!

      The Fighting Téméraire

      It was eight bells ringing,

      For the morning watch was done,

      And the gunner's lads were singing

      As they

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