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Isaac Rosenberg

Isaac Rosenberg, English poet, was born in Bristol. He studied painting at the Slade School (1911-14) and had an exhibition of his work at the Whitechapel Gallery. Although he wrote on other topics, his best poems—including

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Break of Day in the Trenches

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Isaac Rosenberg born, 1890

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Poetry Trivia

Question:

Who won the first Seatonian Prize, an annual Cambridge award given to the best poem by one of its students on a sacred subject?

Answer

In 1750 Christopher Smart won the first Seatonian Prize. (He also won four of the next five.) Lord Byron writes of the prize in his poem "English Bards and Scots Reviewers."

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