"First Doctor. In his speech to Merry Gejelh, the Doctor cites Lewis Carroll's poem ""The Walrus and the Carpenter"" when he mentions ""...shoes and ships and sealing-wax [...] cabbages and kings..."". Writer Neil Cross was a ""Doctor Who"" fan, but had never had the time to write an episode. Executive producer Caroline Skinner, who was new with the seventh series, knew him and offered to work his schedule around writing an episode; he was willing to do it. Executive producer and lead writer Steven Moffat was pleased to have Cross join, as he was a showrunner in his own right"
"Laurence C. Hodgson Laurence Curran Hodgson (November 6, 1874 – March 24, 1937) was an American newspaper journalist, poet, and politician from Saint Paul, Minnesota. Hodgson was a newspaper reporter and columnist, writing at different times for the ""Minneapolis Times"" and the ""St. Paul Dispatch-Pioneer Press"". He had a column that appeared daily on the back page of the ""Dispatch"" called ""Cabbages and Kings,"" a reference to Lewis Carroll's poem, ""The Walrus and the Carpenter."" He commonly wrote under the pen name ""Larry Ho."" The name came about when he had written his first feature article for the ""Times"". He"
"Hodgson, edited and published a book called ""Howdy Folks: Selections from the Writings, Verse and Speeches of Larry Ho."" Laurence C. Hodgson Laurence Curran Hodgson (November 6, 1874 – March 24, 1937) was an American newspaper journalist, poet, and politician from Saint Paul, Minnesota. Hodgson was a newspaper reporter and columnist, writing at different times for the ""Minneapolis Times"" and the ""St. Paul Dispatch-Pioneer Press"". He had a column that appeared daily on the back page of the ""Dispatch"" called ""Cabbages and Kings,"" a reference to Lewis Carroll's poem, ""The Walrus and the Carpenter."" He commonly wrote under the pen"
"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"
"Joseph Edwards Carpenter Joseph Edwards Carpenter (2 November 1813, London – 6 May 1885, Bayswater) was an English playwright, composer, and songwriter. In 1851 Carpenter moved from Leamington to London. He wrote various touring musical entertainments such as ""The Road, the Rail and the River"", and a ""Vocal, Pictorial, and Descriptive Illustration of Uncle Tom's Cabin"" (1853). A two-act musical drama ""The Sanctuary"" and his three-act drama ""Love and Honour"" appeared in 1854, and a three-act drama ""Adam Bede"" in 1862. He wrote lyrics for over 2500 songs and duets, publishing them in ""Ainsworth's Magazine"" and other magazines, and partnering"
"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"
"Edward Carpenter Edward Carpenter (29 August 1844 – 28 June 1929) was an English socialist poet, philosopher, anthologist, and early activist for rights for homosexuals. A poet and writer, he was a close friend of Rabindranath Tagore, and a friend of Walt Whitman. He corresponded with many famous figures such as Annie Besant, Isadora Duncan, Havelock Ellis, Roger Fry, Mahatma Gandhi, Keir Hardie, J. K. Kinney, Jack London, George Merrill, E. D. Morel, William Morris, Edward R. Pease, John Ruskin, and Olive Schreiner. As a philosopher he was particularly known for his publication of ""Civilisation, Its Cause and Cure"" in"
"The Red Wheelbarrow ""The Red Wheelbarrow"" is a poem by American modernist poet and physician William Carlos Williams (1883–1963). The poem was originally published without a title and was designated as ""XXII"" as the twenty-second work in Williams' 1923 book ""Spring and All"", a hybrid collection which incorporated alternating selections of free verse poetry and prose. It is one of Williams' most frequently anthologized poems, and is considered a prime example of early twentieth-century Imagism. The pictorial style in which the poem is written owes much to the photographs of Alfred Stieglitz and the precisionist style of Charles Sheeler, an"
"poem itself can lead to a fuller understanding of one's experience."" Kenneth Lincoln saw humor in the poem, writing ""perhaps it adds up to no more than a small comic lesson in the necessity of things in themselves."" The Red Wheelbarrow ""The Red Wheelbarrow"" is a poem by American modernist poet and physician William Carlos Williams (1883–1963). The poem was originally published without a title and was designated as ""XXII"" as the twenty-second work in Williams' 1923 book ""Spring and All"", a hybrid collection which incorporated alternating selections of free verse poetry and prose. It is one of Williams' most"
"William Carpenter (writer) William Carpenter is the author of three books of poetry, ""The Hours of Morning, Poems 1976-1979"" (University Press of Virginia, 1981), ""Rain"" (Northeastern University Press, 1985), ""Speaking Fire at Stones"" (Tilbury House, 1992), and (to date) two novels, ""A Keeper of Sheep"" (Milkweed Editions, 1996) and ""The Wooden Nickel"" (Little, Brown & Co., 2002). Born and raised in New England, he earned his B.A. from Dartmouth and a Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota. He began publishing poetry in 1976, and won the Associated Writing Program’s Contemporary Poetry Award in 1980. In 1985 he received the Samuel"
"The Sweepers (poem) ""The Sweepers"" is a poem written by Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936), and set to music by the English composer Edward Elgar in 1917, as the fourth of a set of four war-related songs on nautical subjects for which he chose the title ""The Fringes of the Fleet"". Like the others in the cycle, it is intended for four baritone voices: a solo and chorus. It was originally written with orchestral accompaniment, but was later published to be sung with piano accompaniment. The poem was called by Kipling """"Mine Sweepers"""", and is about the British ships called minesweepers which"
"the poem, which is recited by Tweedledum and Tweedledee to Alice. Walking upon a beach one night when both sun and moon are visible, the Walrus and Carpenter come upon an offshore bed of oysters. Groups of four are called up; the exact number is unknown. To the disapproval of the eldest oyster, many more follow them. After walking along the beach (a point is made of the fact that the oysters are all neatly shod despite having no feet), the two main characters are revealed to be predatory and eat all of the oysters. After hearing the poem, the"
"with various composers including Henry Bishop, Stephen Glover, and James Ernest Perring. From 1865 to 1867 Carpenter edited 10 volumes of ""Penny Readings in prose and verse"". He is buried at Highgate Cemetery. Joseph Edwards Carpenter Joseph Edwards Carpenter (2 November 1813, London – 6 May 1885, Bayswater) was an English playwright, composer, and songwriter. In 1851 Carpenter moved from Leamington to London. He wrote various touring musical entertainments such as ""The Road, the Rail and the River"", and a ""Vocal, Pictorial, and Descriptive Illustration of Uncle Tom's Cabin"" (1853). A two-act musical drama ""The Sanctuary"" and his three-act drama"
"Patience (poem) Patience (Middle English: ""Pacience"") is a Middle English alliterative poem written in the late 14th century. Its unknown author, designated the ""Pearl Poet"" or ""Gawain-Poet"", also appears, on the basis of dialect and stylistic evidence, to be the author of ""Sir Gawain and the Green Knight"", ""Pearl"", and ""Cleanness"" (all ca. 1360-1395) and may have composed ""St. Erkenwald"". This is thought to be true because the techniques and vocabulary of regional dialect of the unknown author is that of Northwest Midlands, located between Shropshire and Lancashire. The manuscript, Cotton Nero A.x is in the British Library. The first"
"The Hind and the Panther The Hind and the Panther: A Poem, in Three Parts (1687) is an allegory in heroic couplets by John Dryden. At some 2600 lines it is much the longest of Dryden's poems, translations excepted, and perhaps the most controversial. The critic Margaret Doody has called it ""the great, the undeniable, ""sui generis"" poem of the Restoration era…It is its own kind of poem, it cannot be repeated (and no one has repeated it)."" Dryden converted to Catholicism more or less simultaneously with the accession of the Roman Catholic king James II in 1685, to the"
"Cleanness Cleanness (Middle English: ""Clannesse"") is a Middle English alliterative poem written in the late 14th century. Its unknown author, designated the ""Pearl poet"" or ""Gawain poet"", also appears, on the basis of dialect and stylistic evidence, to be the author of ""Sir Gawain and the Green Knight"", ""Pearl"", and ""Patience"", and may have also composed ""St. Erkenwald"". The poem is found solely in the Pearl manuscript, ""Cotton Nero A x"". That manuscript also contains ""Pearl"", ""Patience"", and ""Sir Gawain and the Green Knight"". None of the poems has a title or divisions of chapters, but the breaks are marked"
"The Mower The Mower is a 1979 poem by British poet Philip Larkin, written on 12 June 1979. It was first published in ""Humberside"", the Hull Literary Club magazine, in Autumn 1979. The poem describes a moment when the speaker accidentally killed a hedgehog with his lawn mower while mowing his lawn. Author Maeve Brennan recalled an earlier incident in which Larkin had deliberately killed a hedgehog with his car, and his guilt about it. She linked that incident with the later poem. Author Sisir Kumar Chatterjee writes that the poem embodies Larkin's themes of ""mutual care, sympathy, and kindness."""
"Edgar Lee Masters Edgar Lee Masters (August 23, 1868 – March 5, 1950) was an American attorney, poet, biographer, and dramatist. He is the author of ""Spoon River Anthology"", ""The New Star Chamber and Other Essays"", ""Songs and Satires"", ""The Great Valley"", ""The Serpent in the Wilderness"", ""An Obscure Tale"", ""The Spleen"", ""Mark Twain: A Portrait"", ""Lincoln: The Man"", and ""Illinois Poems"". In all, Masters published twelve plays, twenty-one books of poetry, six novels and six biographies, including those of Abraham Lincoln, Mark Twain, Vachel Lindsay, and Walt Whitman. Born in Garnett, Kansas, to attorney Hardin Wallace Masters and Emma"
"The Wallace (poem) The Actes and Deidis of the Illustre and Vallyeant Campioun Schir William Wallace (), also known as The Wallace, is a long ""romantic biographical"" poem by the fifteenth-century Scottish ""makar"" of the name Blind Harry probably at some time in the decade before 1488. As the title suggests, it commemorates and eulogises the life and actions of the Scottish freedom fighter William Wallace who lived a century and a half earlier. The poem is historically inaccurate, and mentions several events that never happened. For several hundred years following its publication, ""The Wallace"" was the second most popular"
"The Tyger ""The Tyger"" is a poem by the English poet William Blake published in 1794 as part of the ""Songs of Experience"" collection. Literary critic Alfred Kazin calls it ""the most famous of his poems"", and ""The Cambridge Companion to William Blake"" says it is ""the most anthologized poem in English"". It is one of Blake's most reinterpreted and arranged works. The ""Songs of Experience"" was published in 1794 as a follow up to Blake's 1789 ""Songs of Innocence."" The two books were published together under the merged title ""Songs of Innocence and of Experience, showing the Two Contrary"
"Cabbages and Kings (novel) Cabbages and Kings is a 1904 novel made up of interlinked short stories, written by O. Henry and set in a fictitious Central American country called the Republic of Anchuria. It takes its title from the poem ""The Walrus and the Carpenter"", featured in Lewis Carroll's ""Through the Looking Glass"". Its plot contains famous elements in the poem: shoes and ships and sealing wax, cabbages and kings. It was inspired by the characters and situations that O. Henry encountered in Honduras in the late 1890s. ""Cabbages and Kings"" can be classified as Fix-up novel. In the"
"Thyrsis (poem) ""Thyrsis"" (from the title of Theocritus's poem ""Θύρσις"") is a poem written by Matthew Arnold in December 1865 to commemorate his friend, the poet Arthur Hugh Clough, who had died in November 1861 aged only 42. The character, Thyrsis, was a shepherd in Virgil's Seventh Eclogue, who lost a singing match against Corydon. The implication that Clough was a loser is hardly fair, given that he is thought by many to have been one of the greatest Nineteenth Century poets (but see line 80: ""For Time, not Corydon, hath conquer’d thee""). Arnold's decision to imitate a Latin pastoral"
"years Derek Pearsall has produced two editions of ""The Floure and the Leafe"", and re-examined the poem's historical context but relatively few critics have published studies of it, and, as Kathleen Formi has noted, ""To my knowledge, the poem has not been anthologized."" 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"
"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"
"Henry Bernard Carpenter Henry Bernard Carpenter (April 22, 1840 – July 17, 1890), was an Irish Unitarian clergyman, orator, author, and poet. Educated at Oxford University, his written works were principally in verse, three of which were published, ""The Oatmeal Crusaders, or A Nine Days' Wander Round, Up and Down Mount Washington, Being a Serio-comic Poem"" (1875), ""Liber amoris, Being the Book of Love of Brother Aurelius"" (1886), and ""A Poet's Last Songs"" (1891) published posthumously. Carpenter was a son of the Reverend Henry Carpenter, perpetual curate of St. Michael's, Liverpool at his death in 1864, and brother of William"
"is in the late 14th century alliterative poem ""Sir Gawain and the Green Knight"", which survives in only one manuscript along with other poems by the same author, the so-called Pearl Poet. This poet was a contemporary of Geoffrey Chaucer, writer of ""The Canterbury Tales"", although the two wrote in different parts of England. The later poem, ""The Greene Knight"", is a late medieval rhyming romance that likely predates its only surviving copy: the 17th-century Percy Folio. The other work featuring the Green Knight, the later ballad ""King Arthur and King Cornwall"", also survives only in the Percy Folio manuscript."
"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"
"Piers Plowman Piers Plowman (written 1370–90) or ""Visio Willelmi de Petro Ploughman"" (""William's Vision of Piers Plowman"") is a Middle English allegorical narrative poem by William Langland. It is written in unrhymed, alliterative verse divided into sections called ""passus"" (Latin for ""step""). Like the Pearl Poet's ""Sir Gawain and the Green Knight"", ""Piers Plowman"" is considered by many critics to be one of the greatest works of English literature of the Middle Ages, even preceding and influencing Chaucer's ""Canterbury Tales"". ""Piers Plowman"" contains the first known allusion to a literary tradition of Robin Hood tales. The poem, a mix of"
"Phantasmagoria (poem) ""Phantasmagoria"" is a poem written by Lewis Carroll and first published in 1869 as the opening poem of a collection of verse by Carroll entitled ""Phantasmagoria and Other Poems"". The collection was also published under the name ""Rhyme? And Reason?"" It is Lewis Carroll's longest poem. Both the poem and the collection were illustrated by A. B. Frost. ""Phantasmagoria"" is a narrative discussion written in seven cantos between a ghost (a Phantom) and a man named Tibbets. Carroll portrays the ghost as not so different from human beings: although ghosts may jibber and jangle their chains, they, like"
"The Magpies ""The Magpies"" is the most famous poem by New Zealand poet Denis Glover (1912–1980). It helped define New Zealand's distinctive style of poetry. The poem was first published in Glover's 1964 anthology ""Enter Without Knocking"". Over the course of six short stanzas, the life of a farming couple from young man and wife through to their death of old age is recounted, each verse finishing with the couplet: except for the last verse, in which the last word is ""say"". The intention of the poem is to indicate the passage of time and yet the timelessness of nature."
"The Wood of the Self-Murderers: The Harpies and the Suicides The Wood of the Self-Murderers: The Harpies and the Suicides is a pencil, ink and watercolour on paper artwork by the English poet, painter and printmaker William Blake (1757–1827). The work was completed between 1824 and 1827 and illustrates a passage from the ""Inferno"" of the ""Divine Comedy"" by Dante Alighieri (1265–1321). The work is part of a series which was to be the last set of watercolours Blake worked on before his death in August 1827. It is held in the Tate Gallery, London. Blake was commissioned in 1824"
"The Soldier (poem) ""The Soldier"" is a poem written by Rupert Brooke. The poem is the fifth of a series of poems entitled ""1914"". It is often contrasted with Wilfred Owen's 1917 antiwar poem ""Dulce et Decorum est"". The manuscript is located at King's College, Cambridge. This poem was written at the beginning of the First World War in 1914, as part of a series of sonnets written by Rupert Brooke. Brooke himself, predominantly a prewar poet, died the year after ""The Soldier"" was published. ""The Soldier"", being the conclusion and the finale to Brooke’s ""1914"" war sonnet series, deals"
"and tennis courts. It is generally accepted that Lewis Carroll wrote ""The Walrus and the Carpenter"" while holidaying at his cousins' house in Whitburn. A statue of Carroll is in the library. Whitburn windmill, dating from the 18th century, is a local landmark. Durham County Council, which covered the South Tyneside area until 1974, took ownership of the mill in 1960 from the Church Commissioners. The building is listed (Grade II) as it is considered to be of special architectural and historical importance and is protected therefore by the requirements of the Planning (Listed Building and Conservation Areas) Act 1990."