Vernon Scannell (23 January 1922 – 16 November 2007) was a British poet and author. He was at one time a professional boxer, and wrote novels about the...
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his war poems, considered "verse-journalism of a very high order" by Vernon Scannell. Son of Captain Bernard George Gutteridge, MRCS, LRCP, late RAMC, of...
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Derek Mahon Howard Nemerov Peter Porter A. K. Ramanujan Peter Redgrove Vernon Scannell Louis Simpson C. H. Sisson Stevie Smith Jon Stallworthy R. S. Thomas...
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States Vernon Scannell (1922–2007), British poet and author Yvonne Scannell (contemporary), Irish professor of environmental law David Scannell, steam-powered...
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beauty of nature and its utter irrelevance to the human struggle". Vernon Scannell observed that the poem is contrapuntal, in that it contains the voices...
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James Clark Ross (1800–1862), Arctic naval explorer, died in Aylesbury Vernon Scannell (1922–2007), a poet and author and former boxer William of Sherwood...
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by Charlotte Mew 'Sister Maude' by Christina Rossetti 'Nettles' by Vernon Scannell 'Born Yesterday' by Philip Larkin 'My Polish Teacher's Tie' by Helen...
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Gabriel Rossetti – Carol Rumens – Lawrence Sail – Siegfried Sassoon – Vernon Scannell – Sir Walter Scott – Peter Scupham – Sir Charles Sedley – George Sewell...
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literature: Mollie Hunter, The Stronghold Cholmondeley Award: D.J. Enright, Vernon Scannell, Alasdair Maclean Eric Gregory Award: Duncan Forbes, Roger Garfitt...
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consideration for one human being moving in time with another." In 1976, poet Vernon Scannell said that Kirstein "regarded dancers not as artists but as acrobats;...
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and the customary sexual consummation is associated with the kill." Vernon Scannell, as critic for The Listener, considered The Spy Who Loved Me to be...
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(died 2012) 21 January – Paul Scofield, actor (died 2008) 23 January – Vernon Scannell, poet (died 2007) 25 January – Raymond Baxter, television presenter...
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Poems (1969) Poems (1969) editor with Vernon Scannell Pergamon Poets VIII (1970), editor with Vernon Scannell Amana Grass (1971) Killhope Wheel (1971)...
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Winterlude (film), a 1996 film Winterlude, a 1982 book of poems by Vernon Scannell "Winterlude", a song by Bob Dylan from the 1970 album New Morning "Winterlude"...
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Horatio Gordon Robley, (1840–1930) Colonel Donald Grant Ross OBE, DL S Vernon Scannell, (1922–2007) Col Sir (Michael) Hugh Shaw-Stewart, 8th Baronet (1854–1942)...
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Doherty, English footballer and manager (born 1935) 17 November – Vernon Scannell, poet (born 1922) 19 November Peter Haining, author (born 1940) John...
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Sheila Llewellyn's novel Walking Wounded, published in 2018. Poet Vernon Scannell was a patient at the hospital in 1947. By 1949 Hollymoor Hospital was...
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William Golding commands Landing Craft Tank (Rocket) 460 at Gold Beach; Vernon Scannell (as John Bain) experiences the incident that gives rise to the poem...
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membership required.) Brownjohn, Alan (January 2011). "Scannell, Vernon [real name John Vernon Bain]"". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed...
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in the university buildings. Harris's first commission was that of Vernon Scannell, writer and poet, who died in November 2007. Recent commissions have...
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Pathak, 82, Indian jurist, former Chief Justice of India, heart attack. Vernon Scannell, 85, British poet, long illness. Gail Sheridan, 92, American actress...
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Andrew Motion, Tom Paulin, Peter Porter, Peter Reading, Peter Redgrove, Vernon Scannell, George Szirtes, and R. S. Thomas. The final decade for Encounter,...
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recorder with a cassette of recordings from home more 29 November 1987 Vernon Scannell Compiled anthology of English poetry Enormous amount of A4 paper more...
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Trond Kirkvaag, Norwegian actor and screenwriter (b. 1946) 2007 – Vernon Scannell, English boxer, poet, and author (b. 1922) 2008 – Jan Krugier; Polish-Swiss...
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Sackville – Carl Sandburg – Siegfried Sassoon – Dorothy L. Sayers – Vernon Scannell – John Scott – Karl Shapiro – Percy Bysshe Shelley – Simonides – Louis...
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Patricia Whittaker 1973 Patric Dickinson Philip Larkin 1974 D. J. Enright Vernon Scannell Alasdair Maclean 1975 Jenny Joseph Norman MacCaig John Ormond 1976...
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Moss, American poet, playwright, and critic (died 1987) January 23 – Vernon Scannell, British poet (died 2007) February 6 – Denis Norden, English comedy...
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modulations of mood form grave and tender to the witty and ironic" – Vernon Scannell), Cat Kin, 1994 ("Contagiously cat-like in all its dexterous twists"...
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of 180 copies. Contributors are listed as: Incident at West Bay by Vernon Scannell, illustrated by Vana Haggerty [1972] The Wake by Kevin Crossley-Holland...
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by Morris West 1960 Venice by Jan Morris 1961 The Masks of Love by Vernon Scannell 1962 Curmantle by Christopher Fry 1962 The Destruction of Lord Raglan...
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