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    Sir Sidney Colvin (18 June 1845 – 11 May 1927) was a British curator and literary and art critic, part of the illustrious Anglo-Indian Colvin family....
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    he mixed in London literary circles, receiving encouragement from Sidney Colvin, Andrew Lang, Edmund Gosse, Leslie Stephen and W. E. Henley, the last...
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  • consciously borrowed material from previous authors. In a July 1884 letter to Sidney Colvin, he wrote that "Treasure Island came out of Kingsley's At Last, where...
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    in the picture had long been a subject of intense debate. In 1890, Sidney Colvin was the first to propose the figure on the left as Jean de Dinteville...
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  • Performer. Sidney is set to appear in The First Lady for Showtime as Sasha Obama. In January 2022, Sidney was tapped to play Claudette Colvin in the drama...
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    childhood home of Sidney Colvin, who grew up to be a critic, curator, and great friend of Robert Louis Stevenson.[citation needed] Colvin's granddaughter...
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  • House. p. 5. ISBN 9780679425601. Stevenson, Robert Louis (2001). "To Sidney Colvin. Late May 1884". Selected Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson. New Haven:...
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    withdraw but was persuaded to continue by the literary and art critic Sidney Colvin and by Binyon himself. There is an eighth stanza in the version that...
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    ISBN 978-1291143119 Colvin, Sidney (1917). John Keats: His Life and Poetry, His Friends Critics and After-Fame. London: Macmillan Colvin, Sidney (1970). John...
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    Colquhoun Colvin (1844–1844) Prof Sir Sidney Colvin MA LLD (1845–1927) - critic, curator, and great friend of Robert Louis Stevenson. Maria Colvin (1846–1847)...
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  • dramas, and his dramas are but dialogues in verse." His biographer Sidney Colvin, too, saw in "the excellence of Landor's English, the strength, dignity...
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    common with his Romantic contemporaries. Bloom, p. 18. John Keats. By Sidney Colvin, p. 106. Elibron Classics Thomas Chatterton, Grevel Lindop, 1972, Fyffield...
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  • his own deportation. When things had finally blown over he wrote to Sidney Colvin, who came from a family of distinguished colonial administrators, "I...
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    (ed.), Landor: Poetry and Prose (1946) Sidney Colvin, Landor (1881); English Men of Letters series Sidney Colvin, Selections from the Writings of Walter...
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  • Literary contributors of essays or stories included Mathilde Blind, Sidney Colvin, W. Bodham Donne, W.S. Gilbert, G.A. Henty ("A Pipe of Opium"), Thomas...
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    Natasha Negovanlis and Elise Bauman; and Carmilla (2019). In a letter to Sidney Colvin from W.E. Henley, Henley stated that his friend Robert Louis Stevenson...
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  • Colvin (born 1956), American musician Sir Sidney Colvin (1845–1927), British critic, curator, and friend of Robert Louis Stevenson Verplanck Colvin (1847–1920)...
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    began realising his idea of a cello concerto. The work is dedicated to Sidney Colvin and his wife, friends of Elgar. The concerto had a disastrous premiere...
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    had no claim to special or exact knowledge of ornithology as such." Sidney Colvin, in 1920, argued, "Throughout this ode Keats's genius is at its height...
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    the final lines when discussing the success or failure of the poem; Sidney Colvin, in 1920, explained that "while imagery drawn from the sculptures on...
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    of Trouble in Samoa. BiblioBazaar. ISBN 978-1-4264-0754-3. Letter to Sidney Colvin, 17 April 1893, Vailima Letters, Chapter XXVIII Mains, P. John; McCarty...
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    book appeared the following year, 1879, and is dedicated to his friend Sidney Colvin, an art historian and critic who had befriended him when he was unpublished...
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    choose; in each of them the whole magic of poetry seems to be contained." Sidney Colvin, in his 1917 biography, pointed out that "the ode To Autumn [...] opens...
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    the recent anticipation of death." In his biography of John Keats, Sidney Colvin wrote on the influence of Alastor on Keats' Endymion: "It is certain...
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  • Mark Colvin (13 March 1952 – 11 May 2017) was an Australian journalist and radio and television broadcaster for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation...
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    Encyclopedia of the Renaissance, Scribner, 1999, p. 193 John Keats. By Sidney Colvin, p. 106. Elibron Classics Thomas Chatterton, Grevel Lindop, 1972, Fyffield...
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    House. p. 5. ISBN 9780679425601. Stevenson, Robert Louis (2001). "To Sidney Colvin. Late May 1884". Selected Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson. New Haven:...
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    burning in the bottomless pit." Hawaiian Dictionaries cf. his letter to Sidney Colvin (Honolulu, June 1889): "I am just home after twelve days journey to...
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    numismatist Theodore Dru Alison Cockerell, zoologist and taxonomist Sir Sidney Colvin, historian, literary and art critic Maurice Cowling, historian Des'ree...
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    seen full figure appears on a plasma gem described and illustrated by Sidney Colvin, "A New Diadumenos Gem", The Journal of Hellenic Studies 2 (1881:352-353)...
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