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Cricket: An Heroic Poem. Hail, cricket| Glorious, manly, British Game! First of all Sports! be first alike in Fame. The poem by James Love is too long to quote in full; above are its opening two lines. It describes a match in 1744 between Kent and England. It is written in rhyming couplets.
Journalistic career. Poetry. Personal life. Bibliography. Poetry. Major works on cricket. Notes. References. Alan Ross. Alan John Ross (6 May 1922 – 14 February 2001) was a British poet, writer, editor and publisher. Early years.
‘On the Grasshopper and Cricket’ praises the continuous beauty of nature by taking into account the song of two particular insects, the grasshopper, and the cricket. The poem has fourteen lines and it can be divided into one octet and one sestet, following the Petrarchan sonnet form.
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Albert Craig. Albert Craig (2 September 1849 – 8 July 1909) was commonly known as The Surrey Poet, although he never used the term himself, instead signing his pieces as "A.C. Cricket Rhymester". [1] He would attend cricket and football matches to write verses and short essays describing the players and events, then had them ...
14 gen 2015 · Cricket And Poetry: A History. by Wisden Staff January 14, 2015 - 11:19am. Robert Winder presents the game’s chequered history in verse. Cricket prides itself on the amount of literature it . has inspired, and while it is hard to name any great novels with roots in the game, there is a decent pile . of excellent prose – reportage ...
1 nov 2011 · Harold Pinter and the art of cricket poetry. So often poets' enthusiasm for the game of cricket outstrips their ability to write about it. Andy Bull. Tue 1 Nov 2011 08.41 EDT.
While cricket also features heavily in many Caribbean prose works, novels and short stories alike, this chapter shows that we can identify a set of cricket poems from the Caribbean and its diaspora which collectively constitute a tradition of Caribbean cricket poetry that is itself part of the canon of Caribbean writing.
