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第5回（1817年） Winner
Chauncy Hare Townshend
チャウンシー・ヘア・タウンゼンド
Chauncy Hare Townshend
別名:
Chauncey Hare Townsend / Chauncey Hare Townshend
ペンネーム:
T.Greatly（Pseudonym for Philosophy in the Fens）
プロフィール
- 性別
- 男性
- 生誕
- 1798-04-20 （Godalming, Surrey）
- 死没
- 1868-02-25 （21 Norfolk Street, Park Lane, London） 69歳
- 国籍
- English
- 言語
- English
- 宗教
- Church of England
- 居住地歴
- Norfolk, London, Switzerland → Villa in Lausanne → London
経歴
- 職業
- poet, clergyman, mesmerist, collector, dilettante
- 活動期間
- 1817年〜1868年
- 影響を受けた人物
- Robert Southey, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- 影響を与えた人物
- Charles Dickens
学歴
| 学校 | 学部 | 学科 | 学位 | 期間 | 国 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eton College | — | — | — | 幼少期 | England |
| Trinity Hall, Cambridge | — | — | B.A. (1821), M.A. (1824) | 1817-1824 | United Kingdom |
Eton College
期間:
幼少期
国:
England
Public school
Trinity Hall, Cambridge
学位:
B.A. (1821), M.A. (1824)
期間:
1817-1824
卒業年:
1824
国:
United Kingdom
Chancellor's Gold Medal 1817 for poem Jerusalem
受賞歴
| 年 | 賞名 | 対象作品 | 部門 | 主催 | 結果 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1817 | Chancellor's Gold Medal | Jerusalem | poetry | University of Cambridge | Winner |
Chancellor's Gold Medal
1817
対象作品:
Jerusalem
部門:
poetry
主催:
University of Cambridge
結果:
Winner
受賞・候補エディション
作品
代表作
Poems
1821年 PoetryEarly volume of poetry.
Sermons in Sonnets
1851年 PoetrySonnets framed as sermons.
The Three Gates
1859年 PoetryVolume of poetry dedicated to Dickens.
全著作
- Poems (1821)
- The Weaver's Boy (1825)
- The Reigning Vice (1827)
- A Descriptive Tour in Scotland (1839)
- Facts in Mesmerism (1840)
- Sermons in Sonnets (1851)
- Philosophy in the Fens (1851, T.Greatly)
- Mesmerism Proved True (1854)
- The Burning of the Amazon (1856)
- The Three Gates (1859)
- Religious Opinions (1869, posthumous)
作風・主題
- 文体
- SonnetsPastoral
- 頻出モチーフ
- NatureReligionMesmerism
健康
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Hypochondria生涯Influenced travels and collections, possibly themes in work
評価・遺産
Primarily remembered for bequeathing collections to the Victoria and Albert Museum and Wisbech & Fenland Museum. Friend of Charles Dickens, to whom Great Expectations was dedicated. Funded a school.
記念館・博物館
- Victoria and Albert Museum London 1852年開館
- Wisbech & Fenland Museum Wisbech, Cambridgeshire 1847年開館
資料所蔵先
- Victoria and Albert Museum, Wisbech & Fenland Museum
大衆文化への影響
- Townsend Road named after him in Wisbech
引用
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There is a vivid lightning of the breast, Flash'd from a kindred spark of poesy. Which Poets only know, when rapt they see Some hidden thought — some feeling unexprest Upon the pages of the Bard imprest
出典: Morning Post (1820年)
豆知識
- Added 'h' to surname Townsend in 1835 upon inheritance
- Played one first-class cricket match for Kent in 1827
- Famous anecdote of visiting John Clare
- Owned Charles Dickens' crystal ball