W.j. Turner
Who is W.j. Turner
Walter James Redfern Turner (13 October 1884 – 18 November 1946) was an Australian-born, English-domiciled writer and critic.LifeBorn in South Melbourne, the son of a church musician – organist at St Paul's Cathedral – and warehouseman, Walter James Turner, and Alice May (née Watson), he was educated at Carlton State School, Scotch College and the Working Men's College. In 1907 he left for England to pursue a career in writing. There he met and befriended a number of literary intellectual figures, including Siegfried Sassoon, Virginia Woolf, Vita Sackville-West, and Lady Ottoline Morrell (the caricature of her in his book The Aesthetes ended their friendship). On 5 April 1918, in Chelsea, he married Delphine Marguerite Dubuis (died 1951). During the period from the First World War u...
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W.j. Turner Poems
- Song
Gently, sorrowfully sang the maid
Sowing the ploughed field over,
And her song was only:
'Come, O my lover!'
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- Death
When I am dead a few poor souls shall grieve
As I grieved for my brother long ago.
Scarce did my eyes grow dim,
I had forgotten him;
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- The Caves Of Auvergne
He carved the red deer and the bull
Upon the smooth cave rock,
Returned from war with belly full,
And scarred with many a knock,
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- The Princess
The stone-grey roses by the desert's rim
Are soft-edged shadows on the moonlit sand,
Grey are the broken walls of Khangavar,
That haunt of nightingales, whose voices are
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- Ecstasy
I saw a frieze on whitest marble drawn
Of boys who sought for shells along the shore,
Their white feet shedding pallor in the sea,
The shallow sea, the spring-time sea of green
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- Art_every_day_: truly one of j.m.w turner's most powerful paintings.
- Cbkreport: big ten’s all decade team list (via btn)
1st team:
g: trey burke
g: evan turner
f: denzel valentine
f: draymond green
c: frank kaminsky
2nd team:
g: cassius winston
g: victor oladipo
g: carsen edwards
f: ethan happ
f: jared sullinger
agree w/the selections or nah?
- Groomb: alnwick castle, c.1829, by j.m.w. turner, 1775-1851 (art gallery of south australia).
- J_aguiar_: apropos of nothing, here are my 2023 mlb predictions…
al:
e - tor
c - cle
w - hou
wc1 - nyy
wc2 - sea
wc3 - laa
cy - ray
mvp - shohei
roy - volpe
nl:
e - atl
c - stl
w - sd
wc1 - nym
wc2 - lad
wc3 - phi
cy - urías
mvp - t. turner
roy - baty
world series: atl (4) vs. tor (2)
- Filipmili4: j.m.w. turner, “interior of a cannon foundry” 1797-1798.
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