Martin Armstrong
Martin Donisthorpe Armstrong (2 October 1882 – 24 February 1974) was an English writer and poet, known for his stories. Armstrong was born in Newcastle upon Tyne, and educated at Charterhouse and Pembroke College, Cambridge. During World War I he volunteered with the British Army and served in France as a Private in the Artists' Rifles.
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Martin Armstrong
- Born
- 1882 · Newcastle upon Tyne.
- Died
- 1974
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Occupation
- journalist · writer · poet
- Fields
- English poetry · English prose literature
- Education
- Pembroke College · Charterhouse School
- Languages
- English
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Martin Donisthorpe Armstrong (2 October 1882 – 24 February 1974) was an English writer and poet, known for his stories. Armstrong was born in Newcastle upon Tyne, and educated at Charterhouse and Pembroke College, Cambridge. During World War I he volunteered with the British Army and served in France as a Private in the Artists' Rifles.
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He was commissioned into the 8th Battalion Middlesex Regiment, T.F. in 1915 and promoted to the rank of Lieutenant in 1916. He was included in the final Georgian Poetry anthology. He married in 1929 Canadian writer Jessie McDonald after she had divorced Conrad Aiken, making Armstrong the stepfather of the young Joan Aiken. He appears in disguised form as a character in Conrad Aiken's Ushant.
• Exodus (1912) poems • Thirty New Poems (1918) • Lady Hester Stanhope (1920) biography • The Buzzards and Other Poems (1921) • The Poetry of George Meredith (1921) • The Puppet Show (1922) stories • Jeremy Taylor, A selection from his works (1923) editor • The Foster-Mother (n.d.) • The Bazaar and Other Stories (1924) • The Goat and Compasses (1925) novel • Desert, a Legend (1926) novel • The Stepson (1927) novel [published in the U.S. as The Water is Wide] • Sir Pompey and Madame Juno (1927) stories • Saint Hercules and Other Stories (1927), Paul Nash illustrator • St. Christopher's Day (1928) novel • Portrait of the Misses Harlowe (1928) story • The Three-Cornered Hat (1928) translation • Laughing (1928) essay • The Sleeping Fury (1929) novel • The Bird-catcher and other poems (1929) • The Fiery Dive and Other Stories (1929) • Adrian Glynde, A Novel (1930) • Collected Poems (1931) • Blind Man's Mark (1931) • The Paintbox, "How and Why" Series (1931) • The Romantic Adventures of Mr. Darby and of Sarah his Wife (1931) novel • The Fothergill Omnibus (1931) anthology • Lover's Leap (1932) • Fifty-four Conceits: A Collection of Epigrams and Epitaphs Serious and Comic (1933) • General Buntop's Miracle and Other Stories (1934) • The Major Pleasures of Life (1934) an Anthology selected and arranged by Armstrong • Venus Over Lannery (1936) novel • A Case of Conscience and Other Tales (1937) • Spanish Circus: Charles IV of Spain (1937) • The Snake in the Grass (1938) novel • Victorian Peepshow (1938) autobiography • Simplicity Jones and Other Stories (1940) • Chichester Concert (1944) ode • George Borrow (1950) • Selected Stories (1951) • The Crumb for the Bird (1970)
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- 1.Rodolphe Louis Mégroz: Five novelist poets of to-day. (1. Aufl., Ayer Publishing, London 1933) Books for Libraries Press, Freeport 1969, S. 111–149, hier S. 111.
- 2.John D. Gordan: Letters to an Editor, 1912-1922. An Exhibition from the Berg Collection, Ayer Publishing, New York 1967, S. 21.
- 3.John D. Gordan: Letters to an Editor, 1912-1922. An Exhibition from the Berg Collection, Ayer Publishing, New York 1967, S. 22.
- 4.Ted Ray Spivey: Time's stop in Savannah: Conrad Aiken's inner journey. Mercer University Press, Macon 1996. S. 54.
- 5.Anita Silvey: The essential guide to children's books and their creators. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston/New York 2002, S. 8.
- 6.Edward Butscher: Conrad Aiken: Poet of White Horse Vale. University of Georgia Press, 2010, S. 200.
- 7.Martha D. Bianchi; Emily Dickinson: The life and letters of Emily Dickinson. Biblo Tannen, (1. Aufl. 1924) NA New York 1971, S. 13.
- 8.Marietta Messmer: Dickinson's Critical Reception. In: Gudrun Grabher, Roland Hagenbüchle, Cristanne Miller (Hg.): The Emily Dickinson handbook. University of Massachusetts Press, Amherst 1998, S. 299ff., hier: S. 304.
- 9.Vgl. Martin Armstrong: The Poetry of Emily Dickinson. in Blake and Wells: Recognition of Emily Dickinson, S. 108.
- 10.Iain Emsley: Today ist Tuesday. In: januarymagazine.com, Dezember 2008
- 11.Julia Eccleshare: Joan Aiken: Outstanding storyteller with an unusual ability to write for all ages. In: The Guardian, 7. Januar 2004.
- 12.Roger Simpson: Radio Camelot: Arthurian legends on the BBC, 1922-2005. DS Brewer, Cambridge u. a. 2008, S. 33.
- 13.Martin Armstrong: The Spoken Word. In: Listener 36, 31. Oktober 1946, S. 608.
- 14.Rodolphe Louis Mégroz: Five novelist poets of to-day. (1. Aufl., Ayer Publishing, London 1933) Books for Libraries Press, Freeport 1969, S. 114–117.
- 15.http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext06/8gp0510h.htm#misthom
- 16.Poems for pleasure. Cosen and edited by A. F. Scott, Bd. III. Comentary on selected poems, Cambridge University Press 1955, S. 14.
- 17.Timothy Rogers: Georgian poetry 1911-22: the critical heritage. Routledge, London 1997, S. 271.
- 18.http://allpoetry.com/poem/8591683-Miss_Thompson_Goes_Shopping-by-Martin_Armstrong
- 19.20111228212629. Archivierte Kopie Abrufdatum. 2024-05-07.
- 20.BBC Radio 4 - Poetry Please, 04/07/2010. bbc.co.uk. 2010-07-04.
- 21.Vgl. George M. Johnson: Late-Victorian and Edwardian British novelists. Gale Research, Detroit 1999, S. 4.
- 22.Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Bar the Doors, Dell Books 1962
- 23.Kaldt nedover ryggen: Spøkelseshistorier, Den norske bokklubben, Oslo 1975.
- 24.Ambrose Bierce: The Eyes of the Panther, introduced by Martin Armstrong, J. Cape (London), 1928.
- 25.http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/ambrose-bierce
- 26.Der Pfeifenraucher und andere unglaubliche Geschichten. hrsg. von Elke Kahlert, Domino-Verl. Brinek, München 1977.
- 27.Mary Gladys Meredith Webb: Über die Hügel und in die Ferne : Ein Romanfragment und 10 Erzählungen. Mit einem Vorwort von Martin Armstrong. Deutsch von N. O. Scarpi. Fretz & Wasmuth, Zürich/Stuttgart 1956.
- 28.https://www.lashistorias.com.mx/index.php/archivo/el-fumador-de-pipa/
- 29.http://www.javiermarias.es/REDONDIANA/cuentosunicos.html
- 30.20100413122539. A Guide to Supernatural Fiction.
- 31.Esmor Jones.: British short stories of today. Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England, Penguin 1987, ISBN 978-0-14-007996-8
- 32.http://www.foyles.co.uk/news/carol-ann-duffy-contributes-to-christmas-poetry-collection
- 33.Zum Einfluss von Erwachsenenkleidung auf Kinder: Laura Ugolini: Men and menswear: sartorial consumption in Britain 1880-1939. Ashgate Publishing, Aldershot u. a. 2007, S. 33.
- 34.Jeffrey E. Long: Remembered childhoods : a guide to autobiography and memoirs of childhood and youth. Libraries Unlimited, Westport 2007, S. 185.
- 35.Erhard Chvojka: Geschichte der Großelternrollen : vom 16. bis zum 20. Jahrhundert. Böhlau Verlag, Wien 2003, S. 369.
- 36.2022-12.
- 37.20160427211127. Analysierender Essay zu The Rivals (englisch; [[Microsoft Word. 2024-05-07.
- 38.http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1587940/
- 39.http://www.imdb.de/title/tt0425045/
- 40.http://www.acfc.co.uk/2007_Patch_Rogers/oi157.shtml
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