Medicine, Art & Literature

Birth - Death : 1844-1930 Country : England Medical School : London at St Bartholomew's Hospital Background : British poet laureate,physician Awards : elected to the Fellowship of the Royal College of Physicians of London in 1900.Appointed Poet Laureate in 1913 Special Mention : he only physician to become poet laureate of England Non - Fiction : John Keats: A Critical Essay (1895) Collected Essays, Papers, etc. (1972) Drama : Nero (1885), an historical tragedy; called The First Part of Nero subsequent to the publication of Nero: Part II The Feast of Bacchus (1889); partly translated from the Heauton-Timoroumenos of Terence Achilles in Scyros (1890), a drama in a mixed manner Palicio (1890), a romantic drama in five acts in the Elizabethan manner The Return of Ulysses (1890), a drama in five acts in a mixed manner The Christian Captives (1890), a tragedy in five acts in a mixed manner; on the same subject as Calderón's El Principe Constante The Humours of the Court (1893), a comedy in three acts; founded on Calderón's El secreto á voces and on Lope de Vega's El Perro del hortelano Nero, Part II (1894) Poetry : The Growth of Love (1876; 1889; 1898), a sequence of (24; 79; 69) sonnets Prometheus the Firegiver: A Mask in the Greek Manner (1883) Eros and Psyche: A Narrative Poem in Twelve Measures (1885; 1894), a story from the Latin of Apuleius Shorter Poems, Books I - IV (1890) Shorter Poems, Books I - V (1894) New Poems (1899) Demeter: A Mask (1905), performed 1904 Ibant Obscuri: An Experiment in the Classical Hexameter (1916), with reprint of summary of Stone's Prosody, accompanied by 'later observations & modifications' October and Other Poems (1920) The Tapestry: Poems (1925), in neo-Miltonic syllabics New Verse (1926), includes verse of The Tapestry The Testament of Beauty (1929)