Word: blake
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from Providence public high schools according to the terms of the grant, the trio are: Donald A. Blake '48, who has entered the Business School; Edward F. Burke '49 and Richard Reid '49, both of Classical High School in Providence...
University wide sculling competition in six classes will begin in two weeks, Coach Blake Dennson announced last night, as a promise of relief from summer ennui on the Charles waterfront...
...grimy city of Leeds. Young Read attended a spartan city school whose only romanticism lay in the library's collection of Rider Haggard. At 15, he became a bank clerk (at ?20 a year) and a "true-blue Tory," at 17 a disciple of Alfred Tennyson and William Blake. At 22, he was swept off to World War I-stopping off long enough in London to hand a publisher his first volume of poems...
...wonder-boy composer to reach the U.S. His two-piano music is written in a pure, archaic style reminiscent of Britain's 17th Century great, Henry Purcell, though Britten adds harmonic twists of his own. The Serenade, done in a more contemporary vein, consists of poems by Blake, Keats, Tennyson and others, set to music that is artful and dramatic...
...phantoms, with a power unequaled by any painter that ever lived." His Nightmare (in which a luminous horse's head thrusts between a sleeping lady's bed curtains) was reproduced everywhere, became almost as well-known as Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein. Even to William Blake, who had ten times his genius and only one-tenth his contemporary reputation, Fuseli...