"ship's captain, Barnabas Butcher, and Toyah Wilcox as the ship's cat. The Tale of Little Pig Robinson The Tale of Little Pig Robinson is a children's book written and illustrated by Beatrix Potter as part of the Peter Rabbit series. The book contains eight chapters and numerous illustrations. Though the book was one of Potter's last publications in 1930, it was one of the first stories she wrote. Potter introduces the story as her explanation of how the pig from Edward Lear's poem, ""The Owl and the Pussycat"" comes to travel to the ""land where the Bong-Tree grows"". Little Pig"
"The Owl and the Pussycat (film) The Owl and the Pussycat is a 1970 American romantic comedy film directed by Herbert Ross and starring Barbra Streisand and George Segal. Streisand plays the role of a somewhat uneducated actress, model and part-time prostitute. She temporarily lives with an educated aspiring writer (Segal). Their differences are obvious, yet over time they begin to admire each other. Comedian/actor Robert Klein appears in a supporting role. The screenplay, written by Buck Henry, was based on a stage play by Bill Manhoff. In the stage version, the would-be writer and the would-be actress are the"
"The Owl and the Nightingale The Owl and the Nightingale is a twelfth- or thirteenth-century Middle English poem detailing a debate between an owl and a nightingale as overheard by the poem's narrator. It is the earliest example in Middle English of a literary form known as debate poetry (or verse contest). Verse contests from this time period were usually written in Anglo-Norman or Latin. This poem shows the influence of French linguistic, literary, and rhetorical techniques. After the Norman conquest, French became a predominant language in England, but English was still widespread and recognized as an acceptable language for"
"including an International Owl and Pussycat Day on his birth anniversary. In 1846 Lear published "","" a volume of limericks which went through three editions and helped popularize the form and the genre of literary nonsense. In 1871 he published ""Nonsense Songs, Stories, Botany and Alphabets"", which included his most famous nonsense song, ""The Owl and the Pussycat,"" which he wrote for the children of his patron Edward Stanley, 13th Earl of Derby. Many other works followed. Lear's nonsense books were quite popular during his lifetime, but a rumour developed that ""Edward Lear"" was merely a pseudonym, and the books'"
"#145), in which much is made of Streisand's profanity. At the end, Segal's writer character first throws his typewriter down an embankment, saying that the words he's used as a writer made him sick, then he throws ""her"" over: ""Four-letter words make me even sicker! So long, Foul-Mouth!"" The Owl and the Pussycat (film) The Owl and the Pussycat is a 1970 American romantic comedy film directed by Herbert Ross and starring Barbra Streisand and George Segal. Streisand plays the role of a somewhat uneducated actress, model and part-time prostitute. She temporarily lives with an educated aspiring writer (Segal). Their"
"is limited. The Owl and the Nightingale The Owl and the Nightingale is a twelfth- or thirteenth-century Middle English poem detailing a debate between an owl and a nightingale as overheard by the poem's narrator. It is the earliest example in Middle English of a literary form known as debate poetry (or verse contest). Verse contests from this time period were usually written in Anglo-Norman or Latin. This poem shows the influence of French linguistic, literary, and rhetorical techniques. After the Norman conquest, French became a predominant language in England, but English was still widespread and recognized as an acceptable"
"The Owl and the Pussycat (soundtrack) The Owl and the Pussycat is the soundtrack album to the 1970 American film of the same name. It was released by Columbia Records on December 19, 1970 and features dialogue from the film by Barbra Streisand and George Segal recorded over music performed by American band Blood, Sweat & Tears. The album's five tracks were all written by Buck Henry, produced by Thomas Z. Shepard, and later released by Blood, Sweat & Tears in stripped down instrumental versions on their 2013 compilation album ""Rare, Rarer & Rarest"". An 8-track cartridge edition and cassette"
"The Butterfly's Ball, and the Grasshopper's Feast The Butterfly's Ball, and the Grasshopper's Feast is a poem by William Roscoe, written in 1802, and telling the story of a party for insects and other small animals. Two anonymous sequels were ""The Peacock 'At Home' ""and ""The Lion's Masquerade and the Elephant's Champetre"", both initially credited to ""A Lady"", and describing similar parties for birds and large mammals. ""The Peacock 'At Home' ""was very popular and the 1809 edition revealled the author to be Catherine Ann Dorset The Butterfly Ball and the Grasshopper's Feast is also the title of a 1973"
"Lear's best-known poem, ""The Owl and the Pussycat"", published in 1871, includes the passage: Another mention of this piece of cutlery appears in the alphabetical illustrations ""Twenty-Six Nonsense Rhymes and Pictures"". Its entry for D reads Lear often illustrated his own poems, and he drew a picture of the ""dolomphious duck"" holding in its beak a round-bowled spoon containing a frog. Lear does not appear to have had any firm idea of what the word ""runcible"" means. His whimsical nonsense verse celebrates words primarily for their sound, and a specific definition is not needed to appreciate his work. However, since"
"The Maid of Orleans (poem) The Maid of Orleans () is a satirical poem by François-Marie Arouet, better known by his pen name, Voltaire. It was first published in 1899, but Voltaire had written it over a century beforehand; while he had started writing the text in 1730, he never completed it. It was translated into English by W. H. Ireland. Voltaire was undoubtedly one of the most controversial writers and philosophers of the Enlightenment Age, and ""The Maid of Orleans"" was also certainly one of his more contentious works. An epic and scandalous satire concerning the life of the"
"bent on the same path."" Although Symonds was officially cleared of any wrongdoing, he suffered a breakdown from the stress and shortly thereafter left the university for Switzerland. There he met Janet Catherine North (sister of botanical artist Marianne North, 1830–1890). They married at Hastings on 10 November 1864. They settled in London and had four daughters: Janet (born 1865), Charlotte (born 1867), Margaret (Madge) (born 1869) and Katharine (born 1875; she was later honoured for her writing as Dame Katharine Furse). Edward Lear wrote ""The Owl and the Pussycat"" for the three-year-old Janet. While in Clifton in 1868, Symonds"
"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 Floure and the Leafe The Floure and the Leafe is an anonymous Middle English allegorical poem in 595 lines of rhyme royal, written around 1470. During the 17th, 18th, and most of the 19th century it was mistakenly believed to be the work of Geoffrey Chaucer, and was generally considered to be one of his finest poems. The name of the author is not known but the poem presents itself as the work of a woman, and some critics are inclined to take this at face value. The poet was certainly well-read, there being a number of echoes of"
"found in ""Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There"" by Lewis Carroll (1871), is a nonsense poem written in the English language. The word ""jabberwocky"" is also occasionally used as a synonym of nonsense. Nonsense verse is the verse form of literary nonsense, a genre that can manifest in many other ways. Its best-known exponent is Edward Lear, author of ""The Owl and the Pussycat"" and hundreds of limericks. Nonsense verse is part of a long line of tradition predating Lear: the nursery rhyme ""Hey Diddle Diddle"" could also be termed a nonsense verse. There are also some works"
"of the themes and textual content for which the original content had been so scorned. The Maid of Orleans (poem) The Maid of Orleans () is a satirical poem by François-Marie Arouet, better known by his pen name, Voltaire. It was first published in 1899, but Voltaire had written it over a century beforehand; while he had started writing the text in 1730, he never completed it. It was translated into English by W. H. Ireland. Voltaire was undoubtedly one of the most controversial writers and philosophers of the Enlightenment Age, and ""The Maid of Orleans"" was also certainly one"
"The Awefull Battle of the Pekes and the Pollicles ""(Of) The Awefull Battle of the Pekes and the Pollicles"" (Together with Some Account of the Participation of the Pugs and the Poms and the Intervention of the Great Rumpus Cat) is a poem by T. S. Eliot, which appears in the book, ""Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats"" (published 1939). Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical ""Cats"" is adapted from the book, and ""The Awefull Battle of the Pekes and the Pollicles"" is included in the musical, in which it is sung mostly by Munkustrap. It describes a battle between two neighbouring"
"nature imagery over love poetry and until 1994 with his Mother Goose Rhymes, there had been only one comical song—Edward Lear's ""The Owl and the Pussycat,"" written in 1960. Many of Faith's settings reflect the nationality of the poet and the time period in which the poem was written. For example, ""Four Love Songs"" on Elizabethan lyrics (1982) display thin textures, balanced forms, and traditional harmonic progressions, while the Jean de La Ville de Mirmont songs have a French character that reveals Faith's debt to Ravel and Debussy. More recently, Faith's songs on Moorish poetry evoke an exotic, middle eastern"
"but there is little doubt that it was ""The Floure and the Leafe"". The poem was first published in 1598 in Thomas Speght's edition of Chaucer's works, and there are reasons for thinking that it was printed from a faulty transcript of the separated Longleat pages. In the absence of any ancient manuscript of the poem Speght's book is the only authority for the text. For nearly 300 years after Speght's edition it was almost universally accepted that ""The Floure and the Leafe"" was the work of Geoffrey Chaucer. John Dryden was the first major writer to pick out ""The"
"The Oak and the Calf The Oak and the Calf, subtitled ""Sketches of Literary Life in the Soviet Union"", is a memoir by Russian writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, about his attempts to publish work in his own country. Solzhenitsyn began writing the memoir in April 1967, when he was 49 years old, and added supplements in 1971, 1973, and 1974. The work was first published in Russian in 1975 under the title ""Бодался теленок с дубом"" (lit. """"A Calf Head-butting with an Oak"""", an ironic phrase). It has been translated into English by Harry Willetts. A second, considerably expanded edition of"
"Oscar Wilde Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 185430 November 1900) was an Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. He is best remembered for his epigrams and plays, his novel ""The Picture of Dorian Gray"", and the circumstances of his imprisonment and early death. Wilde's parents were successful Anglo-Irish intellectuals in Dublin. Their son became fluent in French and German early in life. At university, Wilde read Greats; he proved himself to be an outstanding classicist, first at Dublin, then at"
"Pussy Cat Pussy Cat ""Pussy Cat, Pussy Cat"" is a popular English language nursery rhyme. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 15094. Common modern versions include: The melody commonly associated with the rhyme was first noted by the composer and nursery rhyme collector James William Elliott in his ""National Nursery Rhymes and Nursery Songs"" (1870).For the original version, there is no 'do' in 'what did you there'. The poem was translated into Russian by a Soviet writer, translator and children's poet of Jewish origin, Samuil Yakovlevich Marshak. His translation, however, does not preserve the original prosody and"
"Ronald Duncan Ronald Frederick Henry Duncan (6 August 1914 – 3 June 1982) was a writer, poet and playwright, now best known for his poem ""The Horse"" and for preparing the libretto for Benjamin Britten's opera ""The Rape of Lucretia"", first performed in 1946. Duncan was born, Ronald Frederick Henry Dunkelsbühler, in Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia (now Harare, Zimbabwe), in 1914. Duncan's mother, Ethel Dunkelsbühler, moved the family to London after the outbreak of World War One, though his father, Reginald Dunkelsbühler, remained behind, dying before he could rejoin the family. Duncan attended Downing College, Cambridge in 1933, reading English under"
"The Phoenix and the Turtle The Phoenix and the Turtle (also spelled The Phœnix and the Turtle) is an allegorical poem about the death of ideal love by William Shakespeare. It is widely considered to be one of his most obscure works and has led to many conflicting interpretations. It has also been called ""the first great published metaphysical poem"". The title ""The Phoenix and the Turtle"" is a conventional label. As published, the poem was untitled. The ""turtle"" is the Turtledove, not the shelled reptile. The poem describes a funeral arranged for the deceased Phoenix and Turtledove, respectively emblems"
"William Roscoe William Roscoe (8 March 1753 – 30 June 1831) was an English historian, leading abolitionist, art collector, M.P. (briefly), lawyer, banker, botanist and miscellaneous writer, perhaps best known today as an early abolitionist and for his poem for children ""The Butterfly's Ball, and the Grasshopper's Feast"". He was born in Liverpool, where his father, a market gardener, kept a public house called the Bowling Green at Mount Pleasant. Roscoe left school at the age of twelve, having learned all that his schoolmaster could teach. He assisted his father in the work of the garden, but spent his leisure"
"Oliver Goldsmith Oliver Goldsmith (10 November 1728 – 4 April 1774) was an Irish novelist, playwright and poet, who is best known for his novel ""The Vicar of Wakefield"" (1766), his pastoral poem ""The Deserted Village"" (1770), and his plays ""The Good-Natur'd Man"" (1768) and ""She Stoops to Conquer"" (1771, first performed in 1773). He is thought to have written the classic children's tale ""The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes"" (1765). Goldsmith's birth date and year are not known with certainty. According to the Library of Congress authority file, he told a biographer that he was born on 10 November"
"Runcible ""Runcible"" is a nonsense word invented by Edward Lear. The word appears (as an adjective) several times in his works, most famously as the ""runcible spoon"" used by the Owl and the Pussycat. The word ""runcible"" was apparently one of Lear's favourite inventions, appearing in several of his works in reference to a number of different objects. In his verse self-portrait, ""The Self-Portrait of the Laureate of Nonsense"", it is noted that ""he weareth a runcible hat"". Other poems include mention of a ""runcible cat"", a ""runcible goose"" (in the sense of ""silly person""), and a ""runcible wall"". Edward"
"normally reserved for commercial advertisement. Oda al Gato Oda al Gato (Ode to the Cat) is a poem by the Chilean poet and Nobel laureate, Pablo Neruda from his book """"Navegaciones y regresos"""" (Voyages and Homecomings) that was first published in Buenos Aires, Argentina by Losada in 1959. The ode that celebrates the obscure nature of cats has been translated by many scholars including Ken Krabbenhoft. Neruda’s “Ode to the cat” poem has been used in Jazz music festivals and was also used in the ""Poetry in Motion"" project in New York City; where public trains and buses carried verses"
"Catullus 2 Catullus 2 is a poem by Roman poet Gaius Valerius Catullus (""c"". 84 – ""c"". 54 BCE) that describes the affectionate relationship between an unnamed ""puella"" (possibly Catullus' lover, Lesbia), and her pet sparrow. As scholar and poet John Swinnerton Phillimore has noted, ""The charm of this poem, blurred as it is by a corrupt manuscript tradition, has made it one of the most famous in Catullus' book."" The meter of this poem is hendecasyllabic, a common form in Catullus' poetry. This poem, together with Catullus' other poems, survived from antiquity in a single manuscript discovered ""c"". 1300"
"la justice mettre le nez dans nos draps"" (""The Oscar Wilde Affair, or, On the Danger of Allowing Justice to put its Nose in our Sheets"") by , a French religious historian. Oscar Wilde Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 185430 November 1900) was an Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. He is best remembered for his epigrams and plays, his novel ""The Picture of Dorian Gray"", and the circumstances of his imprisonment and early death. Wilde's parents were successful Anglo-Irish"
"The Raven ""The Raven"" is a narrative poem by American writer Edgar Allan Poe. First published in January 1845, the poem is often noted for its musicality, stylized language, and supernatural atmosphere. It tells of a talking raven's mysterious visit to a distraught lover, tracing the man's slow fall into madness. The lover, often identified as being a student, is lamenting the loss of his love, Lenore. Sitting on a bust of Pallas, the raven seems to further distress the protagonist with its constant repetition of the word ""Nevermore"". The poem makes use of folk, mythological, religious, and classical references."
"and Welsh. Welsh writing in English might be said to begin with the fifteenth-century bard Ieuan ap Hywel Swrdwal (?1430 - ?1480), whose ""Hymn to the Virgin"" was written at Oxford in England in about 1470 and uses a Welsh poetic form, the ""awdl"", and Welsh orthography; for example: A rival claim for the first Welsh writer to use English creatively is made for the poet, John Clanvowe (1341–1391). Clanvowe's best-known work was ""The Book of Cupid, God of Love"" or ""The Cuckoo and the Nightingale"". which is influenced by Chaucer's ""Parliament of Fowls"". ""The Cuckoo and the Nightingale"" had"
"Oda al Gato Oda al Gato (Ode to the Cat) is a poem by the Chilean poet and Nobel laureate, Pablo Neruda from his book """"Navegaciones y regresos"""" (Voyages and Homecomings) that was first published in Buenos Aires, Argentina by Losada in 1959. The ode that celebrates the obscure nature of cats has been translated by many scholars including Ken Krabbenhoft. Neruda’s “Ode to the cat” poem has been used in Jazz music festivals and was also used in the ""Poetry in Motion"" project in New York City; where public trains and buses carried verses of selected poems, on spaces"
"Ozymandias ""Ozymandias"" ( ) is the title of two poems published in 1818. English Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) wrote a sonnet, first published in the 11 January 1818 issue of ""The Examiner"" in London. It was included the following year in Shelley's collection ""Rosalind and Helen, A Modern Eclogue; with Other Poems"" (1819) and in a posthumous compilation of his poems published in 1826. ""Ozymandias"" is Shelley's most famous work and is frequently anthologised. Shelley wrote the poem in friendly competition with his friend and fellow poet Horace Smith (1779–1849), who also wrote a sonnet on the same"