"fell out badly. In 1808, Lord Grey left at the end of his lease and Byron returned to live at Newstead and began extensive and expensive renovations. His works were mainly decorative, however, rather than structural, so that rain and damp obscured his changes within just a few years. Byron had a beloved Newfoundland dog named Boatswain, who died of rabies in 1808. Boatswain was buried at Newstead Abbey and has a monument larger than his master's. The inscription, from Byron's poem ""Epitaph to a Dog"", has become one of his best-known works: Near this Spot Are deposited the Remains"
"human Ashes, is but a just tribute to the Memory of Boatswain, a Dog who was born in Newfoundland May 1803 and died at Newstead Nov. 18th, 1808 When some proud Son of Man returns to Earth, Unknown to Glory, but upheld by Birth, The sculptor’s art exhausts the pomp of woe, And storied urns record who rests below. When all is done, upon the Tomb is seen, Not what he was, but what he should have been. But the poor Dog, in life the firmest friend, The first to welcome, foremost to defend, Whose honest heart is still his"
"Byron is not a thing of which England should be ashamed ... a bust or a tablet might be put in the Poets' Corner and England be relieved of ingratitude toward one of her really great sons."" Robert Ripley had drawn a picture of Boatswain's grave with the caption ""Lord Byron's dog has a magnificent tomb while Lord Byron himself has none"". This came as a shock to the English, particularly schoolchildren, who, Ripley said, raised funds of their own accord to provide the poet with a suitable memorial. Close to the centre of Athens, Greece, outside the National Garden,"
"1811 will, Byron requested that he be buried with him. The 26‐line poem ""Epitaph to a Dog"" has become one of his best-known works, but a draft of an 1830 letter by Hobhouse shows him to be the author, and that Byron decided to use Hobhouse's lengthy epitaph instead of his own, which read: ""To mark a friend's remains these stones arise/I never knew but one – and here he lies."" Byron also kept a tame bear while he was a student at Trinity, out of resentment for rules forbidding pet dogs like his beloved Boatswain. There being no mention"
"A Dog's Tale ""A Dog's Tale"" is a short story written by Mark Twain. It first appeared in the December 1903 issue of ""Harper's Magazine"". In January of the following year it was extracted into a stand-alone pamphlet published for the National Anti-Vivisection Society. Still later in 1904 it was expanded into a book published by Harper & Brothers. The book is told from the standpoint of a loyal household pet, a dog self-described by the first sentence of the story; ""My father was a St. Bernard, my mother was a collie, but I am a Presbyterian."" The story begins"
"Foss (cat) Foss (c. 1873 – November 1887), formally named Aderphos, was the pet cat of Edward Lear, the 19th-century author, illustrator, and poet. A stumpy-tailed, portly, and unattractive tabby cat, he was a favourite of Lear's and played an important role as a companion in the poet's lonely later years. Foss is mentioned frequently in Lear's correspondence and makes an appearance in his illustrations and at least one poem. Foss is said to have been the inspiration for the pussycat in Lear's illustrations for his poem ""The Owl and the Pussycat"". The funeral that Lear provided for Foss, which"
"The Owl and the Pussycat ""The Owl and the Pussycat"" is a nonsense poem by Edward Lear, first published during 1871 as part of his book ""Nonsense Songs, Stories, Botany, and Alphabets"". Lear wrote the poem for a three-year-old girl, Janet Symonds, the daughter of Lear's friend poet John Addington Symonds and his wife Catherine Symonds. The term ""runcible"", used for the phrase ""runcible spoon"", was invented for the poem. ""The Owl and the Pussycat"" features four anthropomorphic animals – an owl, a cat, a pig, and a turkey – and tells the story of the love between the title"
"Shakespeare's Dog Shakespeare's Dog is a novel by Canadian writer Leon Rooke, published in 1983. The novel tells the story of William Shakespeare's early career, including his aspirations to break through to popular success as a writer and his courtship and eventual marriage to Anne Hathaway, from the perspective of Hooker, Shakespeare's pet dog. The novel won the Governor General's Award for English-language fiction at the 1983 Governor General's Awards, and was a shortlisted finalist for the Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour. A 20th-anniversary edition of the novel was reissued in 2003 by Dundurn Press. It was later adapted"
"drover's poem, ""Bullocky Bill"", which humorously describes a series of misfortunes faced by the drover, culminating in his food being spoiled by his dog who sits either in or on his tuckerbox (an Australian colloquialism for a box that holds food, similar to a lunchbox, but larger). A dog monument had been first erected at a site nine miles from Gundagai in 1926. ""Bullocky Bill"" was written by an otherwise unknown poet who used the pen name ""Bowyang Yorke"" and first printed in 1857. A later poem by Jack Moses drew on the Bowyang Yorke poem for inspiration and was"
"Betjeman's arms when he died in 1984. Archibald Ormsby-Gore Archibald Ormsby-Gore, better known as Archie, was the teddy-bear of English poet laureate John Betjeman. Together with a toy elephant known as Jumbo, he was a lifelong companion of Betjeman's. Betjeman brought his bear with him when he went up to university at Oxford in the 1920s, and as a result Archie became the model for Aloysius, Sebastian Flyte's bear in Evelyn Waugh's novel ""Brideshead Revisited"". In the 1940s, Betjeman also wrote and illustrated a story for his children, entitled ""Archie and the Strict Baptists"", in which the bear's sojourns at"
"Anglian poet and songwriter, Martin Newell, wrote about the discovery and retold some of the stories he heard from locals while preparing his epic poem, ""Black Shuck: The Ghost Dog of Eastern England"": Black Shuck Black Shuck, Old Shuck, Old Shock or simply Shuck is the name given to a ghostly black dog which is said to roam the coastline and countryside of East Anglia, one of many ghostly black dogs recorded in folklore across the British Isles. Accounts of Black Shuck form part of the folklore of Norfolk, Suffolk, the Cambridgeshire fens and Essex, and descriptions of the creature's"
"by George Cruikshank. A copy was found in Dickens's library after his death. Just before his marriage, James Boswell wrote a song, ""A Matrimonial Thought"" which was given a tune ""by the very ingenious Mr. Dibden."" In the blithe days of honey-moon,<br> With Kathe's allurements smitten,<br> I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon<br> And I called her dearest kitten.<br> But now my kitten's grown a cat,<br> And cross like other wives,<br> O! by my soul, my honest Mat,<br> I fear she has nine lives. Seven years after his death a subscription to raise a monument to Dibdin was set"
"set to music. Such is the stuff of nationalist legend — and this is one of the more benign examples. The innkeeper who popularized the dog's story was David Pritchard, who came to the area either around 1793 or 1801, depending on the source. The poem by Spencer is widely available online. Haydn set the poem to the tune of the Welsh air ""Eryri Wen"", which means ""White Snowden,"" a reference to Snowdon. In the ""Panchatantra,"" which dates back to oral traditions prior to 300 B.C.E., the villain is a snake, and the role of the dog is filled by"
"for the stage by playwright Rick Chafe, premiering at the National Arts Centre in conjunction with the Manitoba Theatre Centre in 2008. Shakespeare's Dog Shakespeare's Dog is a novel by Canadian writer Leon Rooke, published in 1983. The novel tells the story of William Shakespeare's early career, including his aspirations to break through to popular success as a writer and his courtship and eventual marriage to Anne Hathaway, from the perspective of Hooker, Shakespeare's pet dog. The novel won the Governor General's Award for English-language fiction at the 1983 Governor General's Awards, and was a shortlisted finalist for the Stephen"
"in spite of the intensity of their own relationship - during a period when Rilke sought stability above all. Her sons developed close relationships with Rilke, and Balthasar published his first book of watercolors about a lost cat, Mitsou, with text by Rilke. In 1921, Rilke had written in what he called ""a savage creative storm"" his two most important collections of poetry, the ""Duino Elegies"" and ""Sonnets to Orpheus"", both published in 1923. During their romance, Rilke called Klossowska by the pet name ""Merline"" in their correspondence—first published in 1954. Baladine Klossowska Baladine Klossowska or Kłossowska (born in 1886"
"Beau (poem) ""Beau"", also known as ""I’ll Never Forget a Dog Named Beau"", is a poem written by American film and stage actor James Stewart. A humorous tribute to Stewart's deceased pet dog, the poem was first recited on ""The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson"" in 1981, and later published in the 1989 collection ""Jimmy Stewart and his Poems."" James Stewart owned a ""willful but beloved"" golden retriever named Beau, of whom he was extremely fond. Beau slept in the corner of Stewart's bedroom, but would often crawl onto the bed between Stewart and his wife Gloria. Stewart recalled, ""he"
"accompany any of voyages, depicted an aquatint engraving of an ""Otaheite Dog"" in his book """". Based on its appearance and description, it may actually been a kurī instead. Artist Paul Gauguin depicted dogs in Tahiti and the Marquesasalthough it is unclear whether they were the prototypical Polynesian Dogin several works, including ""I raro te oviri"" (I) (Under the Pandanus I) (1891) and ""Arearea"" (Joyfulness) 1892. The prominence in his paintings of these collarless free range dogs has been the subject of much speculation as to their symbolic or metaphorical meaning. Archaeologic records indicate that dogs were present in the"
"was ""An den Reichshund"" - ""To the Dog of the Empire"". The poem misidentifies the offending dog as Sultan, who had already died. The term Reichshund came to be used for Great Danes or similar dogs in general. In Nancy Mitford's ""Wigs on the Green"" Eugenia's ""enormous mastiff"" is called the Reichshund ""after Bismarck's dog"". Some of the statues of Bismarck in Germany depict him with a dog, for example Max Klein's statue of him in Grunewald, Berlin (1897; melted down in World War II and recreated by Harald Haacke in 1996), Adolf Lehnert's statue of him in the Johannapark"
"of Gainsborough, Saskatchewan in the 1970s. During his term as Mayor, he was instrumental in having a swimming pool built. There's a little Rembrandt in paintings by William Hobbs, and fans and spectators always look for in his work. Rembrandt is the nickname of the little Jack Russell Terrier that often appears in Williams railway paintings. It's a nod to the master Rembrandt, who placed a similar dog, darkly lit, in his most famous painting, ""The Night Watch"". But in Hobbs's paintings, the dog doesn't scurry around musketeers in plumed hats and sashed waists but around old steam engine trains"
"the dog is held is ""big enough for a ship's anchor"". Eugène Delacroix wrote of the work: Victor Duruy made the same point, writing: Others, such as Gonse, praised Puget: Edwin Landseer's ""Alexander and Diogenes"" presents the encounter between the twain as between two dogs. Alexander is a white bulldog with a military collar who looks down haughtily upon Diogenes, represented as a scruffy farrier's dog in a barrel. Landseer was inspired to create the painting when he encountered two dogs in the street, one observing the other from within a barrel, and was reminded of the encounter between Alexander"
"Bashaw (Matthew Cotes Wyatt) Bashaw, a Newfoundland dog, sat some fifty times for his portrait. His owner, Lord Dudley and Ward, commissioned the marble sculpture from Matthew Cotes Wyatt in 1831. The work was to have been displayed in Lord Dudley's house in Park Lane, but he died the year before it was finished, in 1833, and ""Bashaw"" remained in the possession of the sculptor until his death in 1862. Dogs' portraits were occasionally painted during the nineteenth century, but this elaborate lifesize sculpted piece, originally set with gems is unique. In 1851 it was shown at the Great Exhibition,"
"The Good Dog The Good Dog is a children's novel by Newbery Medalist Edward Irving Wortis published under his pseudonym, Avi, in 2001. Written for ages 8–12, the book has been described as having ""a very cinematic feel"" comparable to the movies """" and ""Beethoven"". The story is set in the town of Steamboat Springs, Colorado. It is recounted from the dog's point of view, with animals communicating with each other in English. The protagonist is a Malamute named McKinley, who protects his ""human pup,"" Jack. While helping a runaway greyhound named Duchess, McKinley meets the wolf, Lupin, who is"
"Ode to a Nightingale ""Ode to a Nightingale"" is a poem by John Keats written either in the garden of the Spaniards Inn, Hampstead, London or, according to Keats' friend Charles Armitage Brown, under a plum tree in the garden of Keats' house at Wentworth Place, also in Hampstead. According to Brown, a nightingale had built its nest near the house Keats and Brown shared in the spring of 1819. Inspired by the bird's song, Keats composed the poem in one day. It soon became one of his 1819 odes and was first published in ""Annals of the Fine Arts"""
"Gawain Poet The ""Gawain Poet"", or less commonly the ""Pearl Poet"", is the name given to the author of ""Sir Gawain and the Green Knight"", an alliterative poem written in 14th-century Middle English. Its author appears also to have written the poems ""Pearl"" , ""Patience"", and ""Cleanness""; some scholars suggest the author may also have composed ""Saint Erkenwald"". Save for the last (found in BL-MS ""Harley 2250""), all these works are known from a single surviving manuscript, the British Library holding ""Cotton Nero A.x"". This body of work includes some of the most well-regarded poetry written in Middle English. The"
"poem, not only with his long and irregular lines, rhythms, and vernacular phrasing (""dogs go on with their doggy life""), but also with this balance between what appear to be general examples ""About suffering"" and a specific example of a mythical boy's fall into the sea. Auden scholars and art historians have suggested that the first part of the poem also relies on at least two additional paintings by Bruegel which Auden would have seen in the same second-floor gallery of the museum. These identifications are based on a not quite exact, but nonetheless evocative, series of correspondences between details"
"his work to parts of ""Sir Gawain"". The theory was not widely accepted. Gawain Poet The ""Gawain Poet"", or less commonly the ""Pearl Poet"", is the name given to the author of ""Sir Gawain and the Green Knight"", an alliterative poem written in 14th-century Middle English. Its author appears also to have written the poems ""Pearl"" , ""Patience"", and ""Cleanness""; some scholars suggest the author may also have composed ""Saint Erkenwald"". Save for the last (found in BL-MS ""Harley 2250""), all these works are known from a single surviving manuscript, the British Library holding ""Cotton Nero A.x"". This body of"
"Gawain's make this area a likely candidate for the journey. Gawain's trek leads him directly into the centre of the Pearl Poet's dialect region, where the candidates for the locations of the Castle at Hautdesert and the Green Chapel stand. Hautdesert is thought to be in the area of Swythamley in northwest Midland, as it lies in the writer's dialect area and matches the topographical features described in the poem. The area is also known to have housed all of the animals hunted by Bertilak (deer, boar, fox) in the 14th century. The Green Chapel is thought to be in"
"the swallow seeks her dwelling"" in the song. When Election Week was moved to the end of the summer term (June or July) the Domum celebrations were moved with it, though the Whitsun references remained. A 1579 wall-painting of ""The Trusty Servant"" by the poet John Hoskins hangs outside the college kitchen. It depicts a mythical creature with the body of a man, the head of a pig, its snout closed with a padlock, the ears of a donkey, the feet of a stag, and holding working tools in his left hand. It is accompanied by allegorical verses on the"
"approached. Although Hodge was not Johnson's only cat, it was Hodge whom he considered his favourite. Hodge was remembered in various forms, from biographical mentions during Johnson's life to poems written about the cat. On his death, Hodge's life was celebrated in ""An Elegy on The Death of Dr Johnson's Favourite Cat"" by Percival Stockdale (published 1778). In this poem the phrase ""sable furr"" indicates that Hodge was a black cat; also, the fact that Stockdale was Johnson's neighbour from 1769 onwards suggests that Hodge was alive at that time. Today Hodge is remembered by a bronze statue, unveiled by"
"Dylan Thomas Boathouse The Boathouse is a house in Laugharne, Wales, in which the poet Dylan Thomas lived with his family between 1949 and 1953, the last four years of his life. It was at this house that he wrote many major pieces. It has often been suggested that he wrote ""Under Milk Wood"" here but more recent research suggests that fewer than 300 lines of the play were written in Laugharne. The house is set in a cliff overlooking the Tâf Estuary. There are no records of the house being in existence prior to 1834, when it was leased"
"at Lesbury on 14 September 1811, and was buried at Cornhill-on-Tweed.< Stockdale's major work was ""The Poet"" (1773), a poem. He wrote also: Stockdale famously eulogized Samuel Johnson's cat Hodge in his ""An Elegy on a Friend's Favourite Cat"". The poem appeared in the ""Universal Magazine"" for May 1771. Percival Stockdale Percival Stockdale (1736–1811) was an English poet, writer and reformer, active especially in opposing slavery. Born 26 October 1736 (O. S.) at Branxton, Northumberland, he was the only child of Thomas Stockdale, vicar of the parish and perpetual curate of Cornhill-on-Tweed, and his wife, Dorothy Collingwood of Murton, Northumberland."
"Fastitocalon (poem) ""Fastitocalon"" is a poem by J. R. R. Tolkien about a large sea turtle. The setting is explicitly Middle-earth. The poem is included in ""The Adventures of Tom Bombadil"". The poem is a much-revised version of an earlier poem by Tolkien, also entitled ""Fastitocalon"", published in the ""Stapeldon Magazine"" in 1927. The central character of the earlier poem is a whale, and told a similar story to that of the Old English poem ""The Whale"", where indeed the name ""Fastitocalon"" appears. As such, Tolkien imported the traditional tale of the ""aspidochelone"" into the lore of his Middle-earth. Fastitocalon,"
"The Solitary Reaper ""The Solitary Reaper"" is a ballad by English Romantic poet William Wordsworth, and one of his best-known works. The poem was inspired by his and his sister Dorothy's stay at the village of Strathyre in the parish of Balquhidder in Scotland in September 1803. '""The Solitary Reaper is one of Wordsworth's most famous post-""Lyrical Ballads"" lyrics"". The words of the reaper's song are incomprehensible to the speaker, so his attention is free to focus on the tone, expressive beauty, and the blissful mood it creates in him. The poem functions to 'praise the beauty of music and"