William Blake was a poet, painter, and print-maker. He was unrecognised during his lifetime but is now considered a seminal figure of the poetic and visual art of the Romantic Era...
Tag: English
The Planets: Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity by Gustav Holst
Holst was a composer, arranger, and teacher best known for his orchestral suite The Planets...
All Over the World by ELO
The Electric Light Orchestra, better known as ELO, formed in 1970 in Birmingham UK by the songwriters and multi-instrumentalists Jeff Lynne and Roy Wood with drummer Bev Bevan...
Lola by The Kinks
Formed in London in 1964 by brothers Ray and Dave Davies, the Kinks are regarded as one of the most influential rock bands of the 1960s...
The Flood by Take That
Take That are a pop group formed in Manchester, England in 1989...
The Planets – Mercury, the Winged Messenger by Gustav Holst
Title: Mercury, the Winged Messenger Date: 1916 Orchestral
Arthur Heygate Mackmurdo
Artist: Arthur Heygate Mackmurdo Born: 12 December 1851 Nationality: English Movement: Art Deco Died: 18 March 1942
William Blake
Poet: William Blake Date of Birth: 28 November 1757, London, England English Date of Death: 12 August 1827, London, England
The Lark Ascending by Vaughan Williams
The Lark Ascending is a short, single-movement work by Vaughan Williams, inspired by the 1881 poem of the same name by George Meredith.
Octopus by Arthur Clement Hilton
Poet: Arthur Clement Hilton English 1851 – 1877 Arthur Clement Hilton was educated at Marlborough College and St. John’s College, Cambridge. He was responsible for the burlesque magazine, The Light Green, which appeared at Cambridge in 1872. Hilton was ordained in 1874 and became curate at Sandwich, where he died in 1877.
A Prayer in Darkness by Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Poet: GK Chesterton Poem: A Prayer in Darkness