Nicola Williams

Nicola Williams (born 4 June 1982 in Lancaster, England) is an Australian association football (soccer) coach and former player. Having moved to Australia at a young age from the UK, she found her love for sports and represented her state in Tennis, Volleyball, Hockey and Football (soccer). At the age of only 16, Williams began her studies in Sports Science at the University of Western Australia as a scholarship recipient. Deciding to follow her families footsteps, she completed a Graduate Diploma in Education to become an Approved Specialist Sport Teacher (in Football) in 2002.

Career

Williams played for the State School girls, WA State Women's Team and the Western Waves during their primary seasons (3) in the Australian Women's National Soccer League. She continues to play in the Women's premier league for Northern Redbacks Soccer Club.

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The Lark Ascending

The Lark Ascending is a poem of 122 lines by the English poet George Meredith about the song of the skylark. It has been called matchless of its kind, 'a sustained lyric which never for a moment falls short of the effect aimed at, soars up and up with the song it imitates, and unites inspired spontaneity with a demonstration of effortless technical ingenuity... one has only to read the poem a few times to become aware of its perfection.'

The poem inspired the English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams to write a musical work of the same name, which is now more widely known than the poem. It was originally composed in 1914 for violin and piano. This had its first public performance in 1920: in the same year the composer re-scored it for solo violin and orchestra, which premiered in 1921, and is the more frequently performed version. It is one of the most popular pieces in the Classical repertoire among British listeners.

The poem

Meredith's poem The Lark Ascending (1881) is a hymn or pæan to the skylark and his song, written in rhyming tetrameter couplets in two long continuous sections. It first appeared in The Fortnightly Review for May 1881, at a time when (as Meredith wrote in March 1881 to Cotter Morison) he was afflicted by 'the dreadful curse of Verse'. It was then included in his volume Poems and Lyrics of the Joy of Earth, which first appeared in an unsatisfactory edition in June 1883, and a month later was reprinted by Macmillan at the author's expense in a second issue with corrections. Siegfried Sassoon in his commentary on the 1883 Poems ('one of the landmarks of 19th-Century poetry') observed, 'to write of such a poem is to be reminded of its incomparable aloofness from the ploddings of the journeyman critic.'

Lark (disambiguation)

A lark is a small terrestrial bird.

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