Fernand Gregh (14 October 1873,
Paris
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– 5 January 1960,
Paris
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) was a
French poet
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and
literary critic
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. He was accepted in the
Académie française
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in 1953. British composer
Eva Ruth Spalding
Eva Ruth Spalding (December 19, 1883 - March 1969) was a British composer who wrote string quartets and piano music, and set texts by many poets to music.
Spalding was born in Blackheath, Kent, to Henry Spalding and his second wife Ellen. She was ...
set some of his poems to music.
References
1873 births
1960 deaths
Writers from Paris
French people of Maltese descent
French poets
French literary critics
French male poets
French male non-fiction writers
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