Morwenna Donnelly
Marjorie Morwenna Donnelly Collins (29 Mar 1917–17 Jun 1992), known as Morwenna Donnelly, was a British writer who won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize in 1943 for her "book-length poem" Beauty for Ashes. Poet Sidney Keyes reviewed Beauty for Ashes in the periodical Kingdom Come and compared her favorably to Rainer Maria Rilke, writing that "like Rilke she is finally answered, and accepts the revelation. That is the important fact." In 1956, Donnelly wrote Founding the Life Divine: An Introduction to the Integral Yoga of Sri Aurobindo, about the teachings of the yogi, maharishi, and Indian nationalist.
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Morwenna Donnelly
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- 1917
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- John Llewellyn Rhys Prize
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Born in 1917, died in 1991.
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