Poet Michael Roberts

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Michael Roberts

Living place: England

Birthday: 6-12-1902

Global rank: #54515

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Who is Poet Michael Roberts?
A 20th century English editor, poet, critic and teacher, he is best known for editing The Faber Book Modern Verse. He published several books of poetry, including Our Matins (1930) and Orion Marches (1939). His birth name was William Edward Roberts. he took the name Michael after studying the works of Russian intellectual Mikhail Lomonosov.
 
 

Young / Before famous

He studied chemistry at Imperial College, London and mathematics at Trinity College, Cambridge. In the mid-1920s, he quickly became part of the British Communist Party.

Family life info

He married Janet Adam Smith in 1935. They had three sons and one daughter; All four children grow up to be professors and/or writers.

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Who is Boy (girl) friend/ wife (husband)/ darling Poet Michael Roberts?
He wrote a 1933 poetry anthology called New Nation that featured the work of W. H. Auden.

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When was Poet Michael Roberts born?
Michael Roberts was born in 6-12-1902, death year is , at the age of 122.
Where is Poet Michael Roberts's birth place, what is Zodiac/Chinese Zodiac?
Michael Roberts was born in England. is a Poet, whose Zodiac is Sagittarius, and who Chinese Zodiac is The Tiger. Michael Roberts's global rank is 54515 and whose rank is 239 in list of famous Poet.
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Events in 1902 and 6-12

Events in the world in the birth year of Michael Roberts

  • Enrico Caruso makes his first gramophone recording.
  • Aswan Dam is completed in central Egypt, becoming the chief means of storing irrigation water for the Nile valley.
  • Cuba gains independence from Spain.

Birthday Michael Roberts (6-12) in history

  • Day 6-12 year 1884: Construction of the Washington Monument was completed.
  • Day 6-12 year 1889: Jefferson Davis, the first and only president of the Confederate States of America, died in New Orleans.
  • Day 6-12 year 1923: A presidential address was broadcast on the radio for the first time when Calvin Coolidge spoke before Congress.
  • Day 6-12 year 1926: French impressionist painter Claude Monet died at age 86.
  • Day 6-12 year 1973: Gerald Ford was sworn in as vice president, replacing Spiro T. Agnew.
  • Day 6-12 year 1992: The destruction of a mosque in India by Hindu extremists set off two months of Muslim-Hindu fighting that claimed at least 2,000 lives.
  • Day 6-12 year 1998: Hugo Chavez elected president of Venezuela.
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