Aladore is a classic allegorical fantasy novel written by English poet Henry Newbolt . It was first published in hardcover by William Blackwood and Sons , Edinburgh, in 1914. An American edition from E. P. Dutton & Company , followed in 1915. The first paperback edition was issued by the Newcastle Publishing Company as the fifth volume of the Newcastle Forgotten Fantasy Library in September, 1975; this edition was reissued by Borgo Press in 1980. The book has been translated into German .
22-631: Newbolt is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Sir Henry Newbolt (1862–1938), English poet Sir Francis Newbolt (1863-1940), English barrister, judge, writer and etcher John Henry Newbolt (1769–1823), English judge and founder of the Madras Literary Society William Newbolt (1844–1930), British Anglican priest and theologian See also [ edit ] Newbold (name) Newbould [REDACTED] Surname list This page lists people with
44-443: A half- fae enchantress. It is a tale filled with allegories about the nature of youth, service, individuality and tradition. It was reissued in a new edition by Newcastle Publishing Company in 1975. Probably the best known of all Newbolt's poems, which was written in 1892 and for which he is now chiefly remembered, is "Vitaï Lampada". The title is taken from a quotation by Lucretius and means "the torch of life". It describes how
66-472: A knight bored with his administrative duties, abandons his estate to his younger brother and goes on a pilgrimage to seek his heart's desire. Following a will-o'-the-wisp resembling a child, he is led to a hermit dwelling in the wilderness, under whose instruction he lives for a time. Afterwards his quest takes him to the city of Paladore (also the subject of a separate poem by Newbolt) and the lady Aithne, half-fae enchantress and daughter to Sir Ogier of Kerioc and
88-664: A schoolboy, a future soldier, learns selfless commitment to duty in cricket matches in the Close at Clifton College : The engagement mentioned in verse two is the Battle of Abu Klea in Sudan in January 1885 during the unsuccessful expedition to rescue General Gordon . Frederick Burnaby is the colonel referred to in the line "The Gatling 's jammed and the Colonel's dead...", although it
110-653: A standard work for English teachers in teacher training Colleges. Newbolt died at home in Campden Hill , Kensington , London, on 19 April 1938, aged 75. His residency there is commemorated by a blue plaque . He is buried in the churchyard of St Mary's church on an island in the lake on the Orchardleigh Estate of the Duckworth family in Somerset. In his home town of Bilston, a public house
132-573: A thousand mile away...": The poem has been widely anthologised and has been set to both classical and folk tunes. "Drake's Drum" is the first of five poetic settings by the composer Charles Villiers Stanford . Stanford wrote two song cycles based on poems by Newbolt: Songs of the Sea and Songs of the Fleet . Newbolt was the editor of the Monthly Review from October 1900 to September 1904. He
154-630: Is different from Wikidata All set index articles Henry Newbolt Sir Henry John Newbolt , CH (6 June 1862 – 19 April 1938) was an English poet, novelist and historian. He also had a role as a government adviser with regard to the study of English in England. He is perhaps best remembered for his poems "Vitaï Lampada" and "Drake's Drum". Henry John Newbolt was born in Bilston , Wolverhampton (then in Staffordshire , but now in
176-506: The Columbia Records "International Educational Society" Lecture series, Lecture 92 (D40181/2). During an April 2018 episode of Steve Jones's radio show Jonesy's Jukebox, John Cooper Clarke revealed Newbolt as one of his early inspirations, reciting from memory a portion of Vitaï Lampada. Aladore The story takes the form of a quest exploring in allegorical fashion the qualities of youth, duty, self and heritage. Ywain,
198-411: The surname Newbolt . If an internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding the person's given name (s) to the link. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Newbolt&oldid=1055765515 " Category : Surnames Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description
220-1045: The Sidhe-descended Lady Ailinn of Ireland, whom he woos and encounters on various occasions. In the course of his adventures he intervenes in the strife of the two warring Companies of the Tower and of the Eagle, afterward feasting with both in Paladore; he undertakes the Three Adventures, of the Chess, the Castle of Maidens , and the Howling Beast; visits the City of the Saints and the Lost Lands of
242-571: The South; sojourns with Fauns; and has a vision of Paladore’s counterpart, the city of Aladore, which he afterwards seeks. After revisiting the hermit and Paladore, he achieves his objective, and he and Aithne are wed there. In a subsequent return to Paladore Ywain finds he has wearied of it, is mishandled by the Great Ones of the city, and is “excommunicate after the Custom of Paladore.” Wondering at
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#1732801796753264-550: The West Midlands), son of the vicar of St Mary's Church, the Rev. Henry Francis Newbolt (1824–1866), and his second wife, Emily née Stubbs (1838–1921), the older brother of Sir Francis Newbolt . After his father's death, the family moved to Walsall , where Henry was educated. Newbolt attended Queen Mary's Grammar School, Walsall , and Caistor Grammar School , from which he gained a scholarship to Clifton College , where he
286-464: The author of a government Report entitled "The Teaching of English in England" which established the foundations for modern English Studies and professionalised the forms of teaching of English Literature. It established a canon, argued that English must become the linguistic and literary standard throughout the British Empire, and even proposed salary rates for lecturers. For many years it was
308-513: The best-known of these is "Vitaï Lampada". They were followed by other volumes of stirring verse, including The Island Race (1898), The Sailing of the Long-ships (1902), Songs of the Sea (1904) and Songs of the Fleet (1910). The Twymans: A Tale of Youth (1911) is a short work of fiction wherein Newbolt fleshes out the features of his own extraordinary education at Clifton. One of
330-504: The likeness and contrast of the two cities, he and Aithne wonder which is the more enduring, and test the question by building two sand castles on the shore. Ywain’s, built with his hands as a stand-in for Paladore, is swept away by the tide, while Aithne’s, created from a song in representation of Aladore, is preserved. They then return to the mortal city, and appear to perish in a final battle. John Clute described Aladore as "clearly indebted in style and tone to William Morris , but with
352-529: The prominent publishing family - Duckworth Books ; they had two children: Newbolt resided at 14 Victoria Road in Kensington from 1889 to 1898. He was the grandfather of actress Jill Furse . His first book was a novel, Taken from the Enemy (1892), and in 1895 he published a tragedy, Mordred ; but it was the publication of his ballads, Admirals All (1897), that created his literary reputation. By far
374-439: The themes of the novel, as of Newbolt's preparation for college and for life, is indicated in this remark that a teacher makes to a "practical" parent inquiring about the school: "For information, you purchase a text-book; for education, you live in a society." In 1914, Newbolt published Aladore , a fantasy novel about a bored but dutiful knight who abruptly abandons his estate and wealth to discover his heart's desire and woo
396-687: The war include "The War Films", printed on the leader page of The Times on 14 October 1916, which seeks to temper the shock effect on cinema audiences of footage of the Battle of the Somme . Newbolt was knighted in 1915 and was appointed Member of the Order of the Companions of Honour in 1922. In the late 1920s he was the editor of the Nelson's Classics series of books published by Faber and Gwyer and later by Faber & Faber . In 1921 he had been
418-502: Was a Gardner machine gun which jammed, and while Mahdist warriors did break into the British square, it did not collapse disastrously as the poem suggests. According to legend the drum owned by Sir Francis Drake and carried with him on his voyages will beat in times of national crisis and the spirit of Drake will return to aid his country. Sir Henry reinforced the myth with his 1897 poem "Drake's Drum", "Drake he's in his hammock an'
440-752: Was also a member of the Athenaeum and the Coefficients dining club . At the start of the First World War, Newbolt – along with over 20 other leading British writers – was brought into the War Propaganda Bureau , which had been formed to promote Britain's interests during the war and maintain public opinion in favour of the war. He subsequently became Controller of Wireless and Cables at the Foreign Office. His poems about
462-410: Was head of the school (1881) and edited the school magazine. His contemporaries there included John McTaggart , Arthur Quiller-Couch , Roger Fry , William Birdwood , Francis Younghusband and Douglas Haig . Graduating from Corpus Christi College, Oxford , Newbolt was called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1887 and practised until 1899. Newbolt married Margaret Edwina née Duckworth (1867–1960) of
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#1732801796753484-412: Was named after him, and a blue plaque is displayed on Barclay's bank near the street where he was born. Early 20th century British composer Hope Squire wrote several songs based on Newbolt’s poems. In June 2013 a campaign was launched by The Black Country Bugle to erect a statue in Newbolt's memory. Recordings were made of Newbolt reading some of his own poems. They were on four 78rpm sides in
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