Global Information Lookup Global Information

Vernon Scannell information


Vernon Scannell
Vernon Scannell
Vernon Scannell
BornJohn Vernon Bain
(1922-01-23)23 January 1922
Spilsby, Lincolnshire, England
Died16 November 2007(2007-11-16) (aged 85)
West Yorkshire, England
OccupationWriter
LanguageEnglish
NationalityBritish
EducationUniversity of Leeds
SubjectPoetry, English
SpouseJo Higson (Painter)
Partnernone
Children6

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 sport of boxing. He was a famous poet of English.

and 24 Related for: Vernon Scannell information

Request time (Page generated in 0.7972 seconds.)

Vernon Scannell

Last Update:

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...

Word Count : 1925

Bernard Gutteridge

Last Update:

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...

Word Count : 387

Scannell

Last Update:

States Vernon Scannell (1922–2007), British poet and author Yvonne Scannell (contemporary), Irish professor of environmental law David Scannell, steam-powered...

Word Count : 1367

Oxford Book of Contemporary Verse

Last Update:

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...

Word Count : 216

Aylesbury

Last Update:

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...

Word Count : 7132

Naming of Parts

Last Update:

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...

Word Count : 323

AQA Anthology

Last Update:

by Charlotte Mew 'Sister Maude' by Christina Rossetti 'Nettles' by Vernon Scannell 'Born Yesterday' by Philip Larkin 'My Polish Teacher's Tie' by Helen...

Word Count : 1755

Lincoln Kirstein

Last Update:

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;...

Word Count : 3176

Hollymoor Hospital

Last Update:

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...

Word Count : 759

1922 in the United Kingdom

Last Update:

(died 2012) 21 January – Paul Scofield, actor (died 2008) 23 January – Vernon Scannell, poet (died 2007) 25 January – Raymond Baxter, television presenter...

Word Count : 2999

Jon Silkin

Last Update:

Poems (1969) Poems (1969) editor with Vernon Scannell Pergamon Poets VIII (1970), editor with Vernon Scannell Amana Grass (1971) Killhope Wheel (1971)...

Word Count : 1088

1974 in literature

Last Update:

literature: Mollie Hunter, The Stronghold Cholmondeley Award: D.J. Enright, Vernon Scannell, Alasdair Maclean Eric Gregory Award: Duncan Forbes, Roger Garfitt...

Word Count : 1813

Skegness

Last Update:

membership required.) Brownjohn, Alan (January 2011). "Scannell, Vernon [real name John Vernon Bain]"". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed...

Word Count : 19355

List of members of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders

Last Update:

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)...

Word Count : 1038

1944 in literature

Last Update:

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...

Word Count : 2312

Cholmondeley Award

Last Update:

Patricia Whittaker 1973 Patric Dickinson Philip Larkin 1974 D. J. Enright Vernon Scannell Alasdair Maclean 1975 Jenny Joseph Norman MacCaig John Ormond 1976...

Word Count : 337

Oxford poetry anthologies

Last Update:

Sackville – Carl Sandburg – Siegfried Sassoon – Dorothy L. Sayers – Vernon Scannell – John Scott – Karl Shapiro – Percy Bysshe Shelley – Simonides – Louis...

Word Count : 1806

Deaths in November 2007

Last Update:

Pathak, 82, Indian jurist, former Chief Justice of India, heart attack. Vernon Scannell, 85, British poet, long illness. Gail Sheridan, 92, American actress...

Word Count : 10338

November 16

Last Update:

Trond Kirkvaag, Norwegian actor and screenwriter (b. 1946) 2007 – Vernon Scannell, English boxer, poet, and author (b. 1922) 2008 – Jan Krugier; Polish-Swiss...

Word Count : 5042

Charlotte Harris

Last Update:

in the university buildings. Harris's first commission was that of Vernon Scannell, writer and poet, who died in November 2007. Recent commissions have...

Word Count : 374

Alexis Lykiard

Last Update:

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"...

Word Count : 1985

1922 in literature

Last Update:

Moss, American poet, playwright, and critic (died 1987) January 23 – Vernon Scannell, British poet (died 2007) February 6 – Denis Norden, English comedy...

Word Count : 3575

Penguin poetry anthologies

Last Update:

Ridler - Iver Roberts-Jones - W. R. Rodgers - Alan Rook - Alan Ross - Vernon Scannell - Francis Scarfe - Lawrie Scarlett - Bernard Spencer - Stephen Spender...

Word Count : 2052

2007 in the United Kingdom

Last Update:

Doherty, English footballer and manager (born 1935) 17 November – Vernon Scannell, poet (born 1922) 19 November Peter Haining, author (born 1940) John...

Word Count : 7476

PDF Search Engine © AllGlobal.net