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A Survey of African Poetry in the London Times, Sunday Times, Financial Times, the Times Literary Supplement 1865-1985
Pringle, Thomas
Biography
Scotland
Birth date: 1780-01-05
Birth location:
Blaiklaw,
Scotland
Death date: 1834-12-05
Thomas Pringle was born in 1789 in Scotland and emigrated to South Africa in 1820. Sometimes called “the father of South African poetry,” he was the first poet to describe South African landscapes and people in English. He published a newspaper and a magazine in Cape Town.
Education
- University of Edinburgh
News Items (17)
- Poetry of the New Lands (1916-02-17) | Mentioned Poet
- From veld-lovers to freedom fighters (1980-11-21) | Mentioned Poet
- A Poet of South Africa (1947-05-31) | Mentioned Poet
- African Poems of Thomas Pringle (1991-02-22) | Mentioned Poet
- A South African Poet (2002-06-20) | Poet
- A Literature in the Making (1935-05-31) | Poet
- Seventy-five years on (1985-04-19) | Poet
- A New Look in Writing (1960-05-31) | Mentioned Poet
- South African Poetry. (1909-05-24) | Poet
- Queries Answered (1923-06-24) | Mentioned Poet
- "Doctor Jim" (1922-10-22) | Mentioned Poet
- Multiple Classified Advertising Items (1834-05-25) | Poet
- Multiple Classified Advertising Items (1834-06-15) | Poet
- A New Look in Writing (1960-05-31) | Mentioned Poet
- Princle's Poetical Works. (1838-02-01) | Mentioned Poet
- Royal Asylum Of St. Anne's Society.-Mr. (2001-07-12) | Mentioned Poet
- South African Poetry (2009-05-24) | Mentioned Poet
Related Works (10)
- South African Sketches: Poems by Thomas Pringle, with a frontispicco photogravuro by J. G. Millais (1834) (Poet)
- South African Sketches: Poems by Thomas Pringle, with a frontispicco photogravuro by J. G. Millais (1834) (Work Author)
- Ephemorides: or occasional poems, Written in Scotland and South Africa (1828) (Poet)
- Ephemorides: or occasional poems, Written in Scotland and South Africa (1828) (Work Author)
- The Rise of South Africa (1921) (Mentioned Poet)
- The Rise of South Africa (1921) (Work Author)
- Ephemerides; or occasional poems (1828) (Poet)
- Ephemerides; or occasional poems (1828) (Work Author)
- African Sketches (1834) (Poet)
- African Sketches (1834) (Work Author)
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