shapcott造句

• Thomas William Shapcott was born in Ipswich, Queensland, and attended the Ipswich Grammar School with his twin brother, who was born on the previous day ( 20 March 1935 ) . ( The writer is left-handed, but his twin is right-handed . ) He left school at 15 to work in his father's accountancy business, but completed an accountancy degree in 1961.
• He had already served an apprenticeship to journalism before he made his name, or rather his pen name, " Mark Rutherford ", famous with three novels, supposedly edited by one Reuben Shapcott : " The Autobiography of Mark Rutherford " ( 1881 ), " Mark Rutherford's Deliverance " ( 1885 ) and " The Revolution in Tanner's Lane " ( 1887 ).
• It was not until 1836 that centuries of neglect were halted, with the newly installed vicar, Rev . T . L . Shapcott embarking upon a major reconstruction, involving new pews, raising the floor level, heightening of the aisles and extension westward of the north aisle, reconstruction of the roof to a lower pitch to bring the whole under one gable, insertion of new galleries to the designs of Francis Goodwin and the replacement of the medieval nave arcades by stuccoed brick and cast-iron pillars, making a slim, elegant contrast to the solid rough stonework of the earlier walls.
• His first collection of poetry, " Nil Nil " ( 1993 ), won the Forward Poetry Prize for Best First Collection . " God's Gift to Women " ( 1997 ) won the T . S . Eliot Prize and the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize . " The Eyes ", adaptations of the work of Spanish poet Antonio Machado ( 1875 1939 ), was published in 1999 . He is also editor of " 101 Sonnets : From Shakespeare to Heaney " ( 1999 ) and of " Last Words : New Poetry for the New Century " ( 1999 ) with Jo Shapcott.