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Schumann, Clara

(Encyclopedia) Schumann, Clara: see under Schumann, Robert Alexander.

Beagle, ship

(Encyclopedia) Beagle, naval vessel: see Darwin, Charles Robert.

Henri, Robert

(Encyclopedia) Henri, RobertHenri, Roberthĕnˈrī [key], 1865–1929, American painter and teacher, b. Cincinnati as Robert Henry Cozad. He studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. In 1888…

Johnson, Robert

(Encyclopedia) Johnson, Robert, 1911–38, African-American blues singer, guitarist, and songwriter, b. Hazelhurst, Miss. A sharecropper's son, he grew up absorbing the music of Delta bluesmen,…

Essex, Robert Devereux, 3d earl of

(Encyclopedia) Essex, Robert Devereux, 3d earl of, 1591–1646, English parliamentary general; son of Robert Devereux, 2d earl of Essex. James I restored him (1604) to the estates of his father and…

Blair, Robert

(Encyclopedia) Blair, Robert, 1699–1746, English poet and clergyman. His literary reputation rests solely on his didactic, blank-verse poem on death, The Grave (1743).

Percy Bysshe Shelley: To Ireland

by Percy Bysshe Shelley To the Republicans of North AmericaOn Robert Emmet's GraveTo Ireland Published, 1-10, by Rossetti, "Complete Poetical Works of P. B. S.", 1870; 11-17, 25-28, by…