 "The Birmingham Post (England)")
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CULTURE: Resurrecting an English eccentric; Stratford Poetry Festival Shakespeare Institute, Stratford Upon Avon.(Features)
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Byline: Richard Edmonds
Gabriel Woolf's fascinating and well-researched programme on the English eccentric Walter Savage Landor resurrected a poet whose fame rests mainly today on his obscure poem Gebir -an Arabian Nights fantasy much admired by Shelley.
The poem was ...
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GEE, GEORGE HIGGINS IS GOOD -- WHY DIDN'T ANYONE TELL ME?
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe
; ...Higgins is as much like the late Dame Ivy Compton-Burnett as Elmore Leonard. It is not just that Higgins, like Dame Ivy, advances his action almost...profanity with the niceness of Dame Ivy constructing a conundrum...
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 "Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)")
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ALMANAC
Newspaper article from: Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)
; ...Thought for today: "There are different kinds of wrong. The people sinned against are not always the best." - Dame Ivy Compton-Burnett, English author (1892-1969). Copyright 2000 by Telegraph Herald, All rights Reserved.
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Anniversaries
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...economist, 1723; Igor Fedorovich Stravinsky, composer, 1882; John Maynard Keynes, first Baron Keynes, 1883; Dame Ivy Compton-Burnett, novelist, 1884; Federico Garca Lorca, poet and playwright, 1898; Gilbert Charles Harding, television...
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Birthdays
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...Hill, founder of penny postage, 1879; "Le Corbusier" (Charles-Edouard Jeanneret), architect, 1965; Dame Ivy Compton-Burnett, novelist, 1969; Haile Selassie, deposed Emperor of Ethiopia, 1975; Earl Mountbatten of Burma, murdered...
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When HM turns over a new leaf.(Life)
Newspaper article from: Cape Argus (South Africa)
; ...complex every time Her Majesty asks him how the sheep back home are getting on. Her first choice of a book, by Dame Ivy Compton-Burnett, is not much of a success but the Queen is nothing if not persistent, and her next choice, Nancy Mitford...
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Today in History - Oct. 21
News Wire article from: AP Online
; ...Thought for Today: "There are different kinds of wrong. The people sinned against are not always the best." - Dame Ivy Compton-Burnett, English author (1892-1969).
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 "Buffalo News (Buffalo, NY)")
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The Buffalo News, N.Y., Olaf Fub Sez column: Olaf Fub Sez for 10/23.(Column)
Newspaper article from: Buffalo News (Buffalo, NY)
; Oct. 23--OLAF FUB SEZ: According to English author Dame Ivy Compton- Burnett (1892-1969), "There are different kinds of wrong. The people sinned against are not always the best." INSIDE TOURS of...
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STUDS TERKEL
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...quintessential American owed this turn in his career, at the age of 55, to the English actress Eleanor Bron - while Dame Ivy Compton-Burnett proved as sage an inspiration to him as his friends Big Bill Broonzy and Mahalia Jackson. Terkel, the last...
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An Unsuitable Book: The Bible as Scandalous Text
Magazine article from: The Catholic Biblical Quarterly
; ...author refers to himself as "a rather maverick Hebrew Bible scholar" (p. viii), and he draws his title from Dame Ivy Compton-Burnett, who wrote in her novel Daughters and Sons that the Bible "is an unsuitable book for a child" (p. 1...
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Something Old, Something New: 'Pride and Prejudice' On Screen
Magazine article from: Australian Screen Education
; ...by the great twentieth-century novelist Ivy Compton-Burnett, but you don't find Dame Ivy cropping up on Year 12 syllabuses or on...not just the niche market there might be for Compton-Burnett), is its sheer accessibility. Of all the...
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