Christ's Hospital
The most famous of the Blue‐Coat or charity schools, was founded in London under a charter of Edward VI as a school for poor children, in buildings that before the ...
Christ's Hospital Reference library
The Oxford Companion to English Literature (7 ed.)
...'s Hospital The most famous of the Blue‐Coat or charity schools, was founded in London under a charter of Edward VI as a school for poor children, in buildings that before the dissolution had belonged to the Grey Friars. S. T. Coleridge , Charles Lamb , Leigh Hunt , and Edmund Blunden were educated there....
Christ's Hospital Reference library
The Oxford Guide to Literary Britain & Ireland (3 ed.)
...'s Hospital West Sussex Public school off the A24, S of Horsham, which moved from Newgate St. in the City ( see London ) in 1902 . Middleton Murry mentions having a year at the old site in Between Two Worlds ( 1934 ). Edmund Blunden , who won an entrance scholarship here and also in 1914 a scholarship to The Queen's College, Oxford , published two short collections of verse in his last year, Poems and Poems Translated from the French . Keith Douglas came here in 1931 and at 16 had one of his poems accepted in New Verse . He won a...
Christ's Hospital
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An Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age
...largest school of all was Christ's Hospital in London, with enrolments exceeding 1,000 throughout this period. Established in the mid-sixteenth century through an endowment of Edward VI , it still had ‘no rival’ among ‘charitable establishments’, according to the text accompanying Rudolph *Ackermann 's engravings of selected English schools, published in 1816 ; and it was expressly labelled a ‘Free School’ there. In the same year, Brougham's parliamentary committee on education noted the ‘very many instances’ at Christ's Hospital ‘of children being...
Yalding
Horace W. C. Newte
Essays of Elia
John Middleton Murry
George Dyer
Leigh Hunt
Charles Lamb
Samuel Richardson
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Dyer, George (1755–1841) Reference library
The Oxford Companion to English Literature (7 ed.)
...George ( 1755–1841 ) Educated at Christ's Hospital and Emmanuel College, Cambridge, usher at Dedham Grammar School and later at a school in Northampton. He published his Poems in 1792 , and various critical essays from time to time. He is remembered as a friend of Charles Lamb , who writes of him as a gentle and kindly eccentric. He is the subject of Lamb's essay ‘Amicus Redivivus’ in The Last Essays of Elia , which describes how Dyer, departing from Lamb's cottage in Islington, marched absent‐mindedly into the nearby river and disappeared. His...
Gay, William (1865–97) Reference library
The Oxford Companion to Australian Literature (2 ed.)
...ward off tuberculosis. He taught briefly at Scotch College, Melbourne, and was a tutor on a Riverina station and later in Melbourne. He spent the last four years of his life in a Bendigo hospital but maintained his keen interest in writing poetry and helped foster literature in the Bendigo area. He published Sonnets and Other Verses ( 1894 ), Sonnets ( 1896 ) and Christ on Olympus and Other Poems ( 1896 ). A miniature edition of his poems was published posthumously in 1910 ; The Complete Poetical Works of William Gay , edited with a memoir by J. Glen...
Peele, George (1556–96) Reference library
The Oxford Companion to English Literature (7 ed.)
...George ( 1556–96 ) Poet and playwright , educated at Christ 's Hospital, Broadgates Hall (Pembroke College), and Christ Church, Oxford. From about 1581 he lived mainly in London, pursuing a literary career and associating with many other writers of the period. His works fall into three main categories: plays, pageants, and ‘gratulatory’ and miscellaneous verse. His surviving plays are The Arraignment of Paris ( 1584 ); Edward I ( 1593 ); The Battle of Alcazar ( 1594 ); The Old Wife's Tale ( 1595 ); and David and Fair Bethsabe ( 1599 )....
Camden, William (1551–1623) Reference library
The Oxford Companion to English Literature (7 ed.)
...William ( 1551–1623 ) Antiquary and historian , educated at Christ's Hospital, St Paul's School, and at Oxford (where he knew Philip Sidney ) at Magdalen College, Broadgates Hall, and Christ Church. In 1593 he was appointed headmaster of Westminster School; one of his pupils was Ben Jonson , who said that he owed Camden ‘All that I am in arts, all that I know’. He made tours of antiquarian research throughout England, publishing his Britannia in 1586 . The entertaining miscellany of antiquarian material Remains of a Greater Work Concerning...
Douglas, Keith (1920–44) Reference library
The Oxford Companion to English Literature (7 ed.)
...Keith ( 1920–44 ) Poet , born in Tunbridge Wells and educated at Edgeborough School, Guildford, and Christ's Hospital School, London. In 1938 he entered Merton College, Oxford, where Edmund Blunden was his tutor. His verses began to appear in periodicals in the 1930s, but the only volume published in his lifetime was Selected Poems ( 1943 ). He enlisted in 1940 , was killed in Normandy in June 1944 , and is inevitably remembered largely as a war poet, whose descriptions of wartime Cairo and desert fighting and whose contemplations of death...
Blunden, Edmund (1896–1974) Reference library
The Oxford Companion to English Literature (7 ed.)
...Edmund ( 1896–1974 ) Poet , born in London; educated at Christ 's Hospital and the Queen's College, Oxford. The longest‐serving poet of the First World War, he wrote the experience of the trenches into such poems as ‘Third Ypres’ and ‘Report on Experience’; guilt at his own survival became an important theme in his later writing. In 1920 he published an edition of the poems of John Clare , whose work he rescued from obscurity. His prose account of the war, Undertones of War , which describes the double destruction of man and nature in Flanders,...
Essays of Elia, The Reference library
The Oxford Companion to English Literature (7 ed.)
...philosophical, and the more disturbing aspects of life are avoided. The style is very literary and carefully wrought, filled with archaisms and with echoes of Lamb's master Laurence Sterne . Among the best‐known essays were: ‘Some of the Old Benchers of the Inner Temple’; ‘Christ's Hospital’; ‘The South Sea House’; ‘Mrs Battle's Opinions on Whist’; ‘Dream Children’; and ‘A Dissertation on Roast...
