ellauri052.html on line 313: Samuel Taylor Coleridge (21. lokakuuta 1772 Ottery St. Mary, Devon, Englanti – 25. heinäkuuta 1834 Highgate, Englanti) oli englantilainen runoilija, kirjallisuuskriitikko ja filosofi, joka oli ystävänsä William Wordsworthin kanssa yksi englantilaisen romantiikan perustajia. Lisäksi hän oli yksi niin kutsutuista Englannin järvialueen runoilijoista. Hänet tunnetaan parhaiten runoistaan Kublai-kaani sekä Vanhan merimiehen tarina (The Rime of the Ancient Mariner) sekä merkittävimmästä proosateoksestaan Biographia Literaria.
ellauri060.html on line 110: Peter first knew that he was gay when he was seven. Somewhat later he had a long-term relationship with Brian Kuhn, an American dancer he met while at Yale. After a nervous breakdown in the late 1980s, Ackroyd moved to Devon with Kuhn. However, Kuhn was then diagnosed with AIDS, and died in 1994, after which Ackroyd moved back to London. In 1999, he suffered a heart attack and was placed in a medically induced coma for a week.
ellauri141.html on line 470: Vuonna 1878 Rudyard Kipling hyväksyttiin oppilaaksi upseerien pojille tarkoitettuun United Services College -yksityiskouluun Devoniin. Koulu oli armeijapalvelukseen valmistava, ja se oli aluksi rankka kokemus Rudyardille, mutta johti lopulta vahvojen ystävyyssiteiden solmimiseen.
ellauri141.html on line 484: Jenkkien ja brittien riitaannuttua Venezuelasta Kiplingit pakkasivat nopeasti omaisuutensa ja lähtivät pois Yhdysvalloista. Syyskuusta 1896 lähtien Kiplingit asuivat Torquayssa Devonin rannikolla. Talo sijaitsi rinteessä, ja siitä oli suora merinäköala. Kipling ei pitänyt uudesta talostaan, joka oli hänen mukaansa suunniteltu niin, että se jätti asukkaansa masentuneiksi ja surumielisiksi. Tästä huolimatta Kipling onnistui säilymään tuotteliaana ja sosiaalisesti aktiivisena.
xxx/ellauri121.html on line 369: "Vihaan lapsia. Ne ovat niin inhimillisiä, tuovat mieleen apinat. SAKI". Whodat? Munro, skotl. lehtimies ja kirjailija. Hector Hugh Munro (18 December 1870 – 14 November 1916), better known by the pen name Saki and also frequently as H. H. Munro, was a British writer whose witty, mischievous and sometimes macabre stories satirize Edwardian society and culture. After his wife's death Charles Munro sent his children, including two-year-old Hector, home to England. The children were sent to Broadgate Villa, in Pilton near Barnstaple, North Devon, to be raised by their grandmother and paternal maiden aunts, Charlotte and Augusta, in a strict and puritanical household. A war fanatic, he was killed by a German sniper. According to several sources, his last words were "Put that bloody cigarette out!" Munro was homosexual at a time when in Britain sexual activity between men was a crime. (Mä ARRVASIN! Sen se oli näkönenkin.)
xxx/ellauri127.html on line 620: In 1797, Coleridge was living at Nether Stowey, a village in the foothills of the Quantocks. However, due to ill health, he had "retired to a lonely farm house between Porlock and Lynton, on the Exmoor confines of Somerset and Devonshire". It is unclear whether the interruption took place at Culbone Parsonage (Culbone, hehe) or at Ash Farm. (Ass farm, hehe.) He described the incident in his first publication of the poem, writing about himself in the third person:
xxx/ellauri229.html on line 337: As a teenager he was influenced by the Mersey Poets, including Adrian Henri, Roger McGough and Brian Patten. As a result, he had a troubled childhood before in his early 20s attending the Self Heal Association, a psychotherapeutic centre in Devon. He later became a helper at the centre and continues to speak and perform at mental health conferences.
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