Phormium
Phormium (family Agavaceae) A genus of plants that are
rosettes with a woody rootstock. There are two species, confined to Norfolk Island and New Zealand.
P. tenax, New Zealand flax, is commercially important and several variegated or oddly coloured varieties are grown as ornamentals.
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"The hint of style": Byron, John Hookham Frere, and Melville's Marginalia in William Tennant's Anster Fair.(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: Leviathan; 6/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...fly-leaf annotation reveals Melville's recognition of Byron's literary relationship with diplomat and writer John Hookham Frere (1769-1846); it helps us place Melville in conversation with their work and clarify Melville's understanding...
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Gabriele Rossetti's Rigors of Rome: a translation.
Magazine article from: Nineteenth-Century Prose; 12/22/1990; ; 700+ words
; ...Rossetti in Gabrielle Festing's John Hookham Frere and His Friends (London: Nisbet...writing Il mistero, Rossetti kept John Hookham Frere, the British diplomat and man...review article on The Works of John Hookham Frere in The Edinburgh Review (April...
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Lectures 1818-1819: On the History of Philosophy.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Wordsworth Circle; 9/22/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...transcription commissioned and paid for by John Hookham Frere. Lectures 2 through 13 were taken...lectures that are not included in the Frere manuscript. This lecture exists...reports, The Champion's, was by John Thelwall, although it does not...
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Pitt and Anti-Jacobin hysteria: in the 1790s a press campaign lambasted Jacobins and fellow-travellers.(possible English government coordination of the campaign)
Magazine article from: History Today; 9/1/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...whose back ride Charles James Fox, John Thelwall and other figures waving...parodists were two Old Etonians, John Hookham Frere and George Canning, the future prime...invoke the 1351 Treason Act against John Horne Tooke, Thelwall, Holcroft...
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The Little House at Kolomna.(Poem)
Magazine article from: Pushkin Review; 1/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...Soul suggests-- Despite the Cavils, arrogant, emetic, Which carping Critics, feathering their Nests, Give old John Hookham Frere, that proud Heretic, (1) And, doubtless, soon will level at my Jests; When Fate decrees, there's no Alternative...
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New and Collected Poems.
Magazine article from: National Review; 9/2/1988; ; 700+ words
; ...happy to disclose sterling credentials. She's of yeoman Victorian stock, with prestidigitators in her pedigree: John Hookham Frere, Tom Hood. In an era (Coleridge, Tennyson, Swinburne) when English poetry was mounting aesthetic hilltops...
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Anniversaries
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 1/7/1998; 542 words
; ...Thomas Lawrence, painter, 1830; John Hookham Frere, author and poet, 1846; Thomas...Arthur Keith, anthropologist, 1955; John Berryman, poet, 1972; Alvar Lidell...Jean-Pierre Blanchard, with Dr John Jeffries, crossed the Channel by...
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Darwin had to contend with religious dogma and bad poetry. An illustrious successor is equally frustrated by bad science
Magazine article from: New Statesman; 6/25/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...Creation. An ordinary writer would have simply presented the argument and left it there. Jones digs out a poem by one John Hookham Frere, a forgotten Georgian Conservative, and quotes with relish his anti -Enlightenment verse of 1798 that explains...
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John Hookham Frere
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
John Hookham Frere 1769-1846, British writer and diplomat. He was a member of Parliament...Thereafter he devoted himself to writing, living most of the time in Malta. Frere's best work is in his metrical translations from Aristophanes ( The...
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Frere, John Hookham
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
Frere, John Hookham (1769–1846), friend of Canning...official of the Foreign Office. While at Eton Frere wrote a translation of Brunanburh , and...Quarterly Review in 1809, and an adviser to John Murray the publisher. He is chiefly remembered...
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Frere, John
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...verbatim, with a discussion of Frere ’ s work, by J. Reid...The main biographical sources for Frere are the article by Warwick Wroth...memoir on the life of his son in John Hookham Frere, Works , I (London, 1872...
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Sir Henry Bartle Edward Frere
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Sir Henry Bartle Edward Frere , 1815-84, British colonial administrator; nephew of John Hookham Frere. He served (1850-59) as chief...commissioner of British South Africa, Frere had to cope with Boer discontent...
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Angel de Saavedra
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...in 1823. For the next 10 years he lived abroad in England, Italy, Malta, and France. In Malta in 1825 he met John Hookham Frere, a noted English Hispanist who introduced him to the British romantics and urged him to search for poetic themes...
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