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Francis William Bourdillon

British poet

Francis William Bourdillon (22 March at Runcorn, Cheshire, England – 13 January at Buddington, Midhurst) was a British poet and translator.

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He is known also as a bibliophile.

Life

Born at Trinity Parsonage, Halton Road, Runcorn, Cheshire, Francis William Bourdillon was the eldest son of Rev. Francis Bourdillon, the author, at that time perpetual curate of Runcorn. He was educated at Haileybury College and Worcester College, Oxford, graduating B.A.

, M.A. From to , he acted as tutor to the sons of Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein.[1][2][3][4][5]

Later Bourdillon lived in Eastbourne,[6] and near Midhurst, Sussex.[7] His friends included Audrey Boyle (/4–), later as wife of Hallam Tennyson, 2nd Baron Tennyson, known as Audrey Lady Tennyson.[8][9]

Writer

Bourdillon is known for his poetry, and in particular, for the single short poem "The Night Has a Thousand Eyes".

He had many collections published, including Among The Flowers, And Other Poems (), Minuscula: lyrics of nature, art and love (, siftings of three smaller volumes of verse published anonymously at Oxford in , , and ), Gerard and Isabel: a Romance in Form of Cantefable (), and also Chryseis, and Preludes and Romances ().

In , Bourdillon published Nephelé, a romantic novel.

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    • He translated Aucassin et Nicolette as Aucassin and Nicolet (), and he wrote the scholarly The Early Editions of the Roman de la Rose () as well as Russia Reborn () and various essays which the Religious Tract Society published.

    Family

    Bourdillon married Agnes Smyth, and they lived at Buddington, near Midhurst.

    They had three children, including the World War I pilot and later medical researcher Robert Benedict Bourdillon (–).[1] The mountaineer Tom Bourdillon (–) was a grandson.

    References

    1. ^ abAlcuin Blamires; Gail C. Holian ().

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    2. ^s:Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, –/Bourdillon, Francis William
    3. ^Stedman, Edmund Clarence (). "A Victorian Anthology –".

      Internet Archive. Boston, New York: Houghton Mifflin Company.

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    4. ^"Bourdillon, Francis (BRDNF)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
    5. ^"F.W. Bourdillon, Poet, Scholar, and Editor of old French Romances".

    6. F. W. Bourdillon - Hymnary.org
    7. Francis William Bourdillon - Penny's poetry pages Wiki
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    9. Guide to the Francis William Bourdillon Collection

      10. The Times. 14 January

    10. ^Eastbourne Memories, A Victorian Perspective of, notable events, Persons and town history – online book at
    11. ^Nicholas Albery (editor), Poem for the Day, p.
    12. ^Audrey Tennyson; Zacyntha Antonia Lorenzina Boyle; Lady Alexandra Hasluck (1 January ).

      Audrey Tennyson's Vice-regal Days: The Australian Letters of Audrey Lady Tennyson to Her Mother Zacyntha Boyle, –.

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    13. ^Rickard, Suzanne L.G. "Tennyson, Hallam". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online&#;ed.). Oxford University Press. doi/ref:odnb/ (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)

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