Henry Newman Howard (16 June 1861 – 5 March 1929) was an English poet and dramatist. His first book, Footsteps of Proserpine and Other Verses and Interludes, was published by Elliot Stock in 1897. He then wrote a series of critically praised blank versetragedies, which he called "the Christian Trilogy", beginning with Kiartan the Icelander in 1902, followed by Savanarola: a City's Tragedy in 1904 and Constantine the Great in 1906.[1]Kiartan (whose theme was "the introduction of Christianity into Iceland"[2]), in particular, was singled out for praise, Joseph B. Gilder remarking in the Bookman that "If anyone writing English verse today has achieved anything more imaginative or more beautiful than the last sixteen lines of Kiartan, the Icelander, it has escaped my observation."[3] His collected poems and tragedies were published by Macmillan and Co. in 1913.
Poetry is a form of literature that uses aesthetic and rhythmic qualities of language—such as phonaesthetics, sound symbolism, and metre—to evoke meanings in addition to, or in place of, the prosaic ostensible meaning.
A playwright or dramatist is a person who writes plays.
Blank verse is poetry written with regular metrical but unrhymed lines, almost always in iambic pentameter. It has been described as "probably the most common and influential form that English poetry has taken since the 16th century", and Paul Fussell has estimated that "about three quarters of all English poetry is in blank verse".
Newman Howard is the father of Gwendolen "Len" Howard (1894–1973), the British naturalist, author, and musician.
Gwendolen Howard was a British naturalist and musician. She is known for the unique amateur bird studies that were published in various periodicals and two books under her pseudonym, Len Howard.
Notes
↑ The Annual Register: a Review of Public Events at Home and Abroad for the Year 1906. Page 67. Longmans, Green and Co., 1907.
↑ Putnam's Magazine: a Magazine of Literature, Art and Life. Volume II, April–September, 1907. Page 350.
↑ The Bookman: an Illustrated Magazine of Literature and Life, Volume XVI, August, 1902-February, 1903. Pages 31-32. Joseph B. Gilder: "A New English Poet".
Bibliography
Footsteps of Proserpine and Other Verses and Interludes (1897)
Kiartan the Icelander: a Tragedy (1902)
Savonarola: a City's Tragedy (1904)
Constantine the Great: a Tragedy (1906)
Collected Poems (1913)
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