Harrison, Tony
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Harrison, Tony (1937– ), poet and translator, born in Leeds, educated at Leeds University. Memories of his working-class childhood provide the material for much of his poetry; his works also reflect his travels in Africa, the Soviet Union, and America. His volumes include
The Loiners (1970),
From ‘The School of Eloquence’ and Other Poems (1978), and
Continuous (1981). He has also written verse translations of
Molière's The Misanthrope (1973),
Racine's Phèdre (
Phaedra Britannica, 1975), and the
Oresteia (1981). Both his original works and his translations show a great facility in rhyme and a skilful adaptation of colloquial speech. Other volumes include
V (1985), written during the miners' strike of 1984–5,
Loving Memory (1987),
The Blasphemers' Banquet (1989),
Selected Poems (1984, rev. 1987),
V and Other Poems (1990),
A Cold Coming: Gulf War Poems (1992),
The Gaze of the Gorgon (1992; Whitbread Award for poetry), and
Laureate's Block (2000). Harrison is renowned for his independent voice and impassioned commentary on public affairs.
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Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 5/25/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...Postal Service, noted that Bingham's is one of six new stamps...easily achieved," Day said. Bingham, known to friends and family...England family. His father, Hiram Bingham III, was an archaeologist who rediscovered the ruins...
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Princeton will return antiquities to Italy
Newspaper article from: Deseret News (Salt Lake City); 10/27/2007; ; 354 words
; ...museum's collection. In September, Yale University in New Haven, Conn., agreed to return artifacts that Hiram Bingham, an archaeologist and Yale professor, excavated from Machu Picchu, Peru, almost a century ago.
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Macchu Picchu researchers say site was a royal retreat Discoverer's theories concerning 'lost city' disputed by archaeologists
Newspaper article from: Oakland Tribune; 3/18/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...after the explorer Hiram Bingham III bushwhacked his...spectacular site was not, as Bingham supposed, the traditional...nobility. It was, archaeologists say, the Incan equivalent...Lucy Salazar, also an archaeologist, are co-curators of the exhibit. "Bingham's work was very ...
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Hike here while you can The end of free access to Machu Picchu is nigh, warns Richard Danbury
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 2/20/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...of years. But the first Westerner to have the pleasure of seeing the sun rise over Machu Picchu was Hiram Bingham, an amateur archaeologist and adventurer, who came here in 1911. After months of excavating he prised from the humid embrace...
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Incas, children of the sun.(CULTURE)(Geographic overview)
Magazine article from: World and I; 6/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...witchery of the jungle.--Hiram Bingham III What if you had been there with American archaeologist Hiram Bingham III and his party as they set...question--July 24, 1911--Hiram Bingham would happen upon a literal...
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Peak experience.(Executive Travel)(PeruRail launches luxury train service)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Latin Trade; 12/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; A century ago, Yale University archaeologist. Hiram Bingham used a machete to slash his way up a foliage...and-a-half-hour journey to the ruins. The Hiram Bingham's 84 passengers arrive long after the morning...
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Ted Lewin Lost City: the Discovery of Machu Picchu.(Brief Article)(Children's Review)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: The Horn Book Magazine; 9/1/2003; ; 590 words
; ...watercolors follow the quest of archaeologist Hiram Bingham, who, in his 1911 search for...Machu Picchu. Lewin draws on Bingham's journal for this account...the text quickly moves on to Bingham's search for guides in the...
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ROAD TO MACHU PICCHU RUNS THROUGH L.A.(U)
Newspaper article from: Daily News (Los Angeles, CA); 6/28/2003; 700+ words
; ...contains memorabilia from Yale archaeologist Hiram Bingham's famous 1912 excavation of...including his original cameras. Bingham discovered the site in 1911...photographs,'' Wise said of Bingham. ``At the time, a Yale...
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The Art World: Can Machu Picchu be saved?
News Wire article from: United Press International; 7/18/2002; 700+ words
; ...state of preservation in 1911 by a young American archaeologist, Hiram Bingham, head of a Yale University expedition and later...found it, and it was only a legend by the time Bingham arrived in Peru for the first time in 1906. The...
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
Magazine article from: The Horn Book Guide to Children's and Young Adult Books; 4/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...spring 2003. Detailed watercolors follow the quest of archaeologist Hiram Bingham, who, in his 1911 search for the legendary Incan...even more amazing"-Machu Picchu. Lewin draws on Bingham's journal for this account of the grueling expedition...
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Hiram Bingham
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Hiram Bingham 1875-1956, American archaeologist, historian, and statesman, b. Honolulu; son of Hiram Bingham (1831-1908). He was educated...taught (1907-23) at Yale. Bingham headed archaeological expeditions...
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Bingham, Hiram
Book article from: World Encyclopedia
Bingham, Hiram (1875–1956) US archaeologist. His 1911 discovery, and subsequent excavation, of the Inca mountain city of Machu Picchu in the Peruvian Andes helped historians unravel the story of Peru before the Spanish conquest.
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