"reported that The Hollow Men, along with others such as Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine and The Charlatans, were their pick as 'stars of tomorrow'. The only album the band recorded for Arista was ""Cresta"" released in 1990. The band split up in 1991. The album ""Twisted"" made up from unreleased, demo and live tracks was released in the US only on November Records in 1994. The Hollow Men (band) The Hollow Men were a British indie band from Leeds, England. The group named itself after the poem by T. S. Eliot. The members were David Ashmoore on vocals, Choque"
"satire and prophecy; its abrupt changes of speaker, location, and time. This structural complexity is one of the reasons why the poem has become a touchstone of modern literature, a poetic counterpart to a novel published in the same year, James Joyce's ""Ulysses"". Among its best-known phrases are ""April is the cruellest month"", ""I will show you fear in a handful of dust"" and """"Shantih shantih shantih"""". The Sanskrit ""mantra"" ends the poem. ""The Hollow Men"" appeared in 1925. For the critic Edmund Wilson, it marked ""The nadir of the phase of despair and desolation given such effective expression in"
"Ode (poem) Ode is a poem written by the English poet Arthur O'Shaughnessy and first published in 1873. It is often referred to by its first line ""We are the music makers"". The ""Ode"" is the first poem in O'Shaughnessy's collection ""Music and Moonlight"" (1874). It has nine stanzas, although it is commonly believed to be only three stanzas long. The opening stanza is: The phrase ""movers and shakers"" (now used to describe powerful and worldly individuals and groups) originates here. The poem has been set to music, or alluded to, many times: Sir Edward Elgar set the ode to"
"first published as now known on 23 November 1925, in Eliot's ""Poems: 1909–1925"". Eliot was known to collect poems and fragments of poems to produce new works. This is clear to see in his poems ""The Hollow Men"" and ""Ash-Wednesday"" where he incorporated previously published poems to become sections of a larger work. In the case of ""The Hollow Men"" four of the five sections of the poem were previously published: ""The Hollow Men"" has had a profound effect on the Anglo-American cultural lexicon—and by a relatively recent extension, world culture—since it was published in 1925. One source states that"
"The Hollow Man (Carr novel) The Hollow Man is a famous locked room mystery novel by the American writer John Dickson Carr (1906–1977), published in 1935. It was published in the US under the title The Three Coffins and in 1981 was selected as the best locked room mystery of all time by a panel of 17 mystery authors and reviewers. Professor Charles Grimaud and his circle are meeting at a tavern when they are interrupted by a mysterious stranger who claims that men can arise from their graves and walk through walls. The stranger, illusionist Pierre Fley, claims to"
"occasion of its 700th anniversary in 1964. South African band, Gimp, performed a rock anthem of the poem in 2005 at Woodstock South Africa Ode (poem) Ode is a poem written by the English poet Arthur O'Shaughnessy and first published in 1873. It is often referred to by its first line ""We are the music makers"". The ""Ode"" is the first poem in O'Shaughnessy's collection ""Music and Moonlight"" (1874). It has nine stanzas, although it is commonly believed to be only three stanzas long. The opening stanza is: The phrase ""movers and shakers"" (now used to describe powerful and worldly"
"The Hollow Men (novel) The Hollow Men is a BBC Books original novel written by Martin Day and Keith Topping and based on the long-running British science fiction television series ""Doctor Who"". It features the Seventh Doctor, and Ace and uses elements from the Fifth Doctor serial ""The Awakening"". In the early years of the 21st century, the Doctor brings Ace to Hexen Bridge, site of a brutal massacre on the eve of the English Civil War. Ostensibly he's come to attend a school reunion, as he's on the board of governors, but he admits to Ace that his real"
"through their spiritual sterility. And as the poem and their journey ends, they see “the horror, the horror” that Kurtz sees in ""The Heart of Darkness"". There is a complete breakdown of language, prayer and the spirit as “the world ends/ Not with a bang but a whimper”. Eliot wrote that he produced the title ""The Hollow Men"" by combining the titles of the romance ""The Hollow Land"" by William Morris with the poem ""The Broken Men"" by Rudyard Kipling: but it is possible that this is one of Eliot's many constructed allusions, and that the title originates more transparently"
"""Black or White"" was inspired by the 1925 poem ""The Hollow Men"" by British poet T. S. Eliot. Talking to ""The Observer"" in 1976, Harley revealed that T. S. Eliot was a big hero to him, and that he nicked the form of ""The Hollow Men"" for the song. ""Black or White"" was released by EMI Records on 7"" vinyl in the UK, the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Italy and Japan. In the UK, a promotional demo/DJ copy was also issued by EMI. The Japanese edition of the single, unlike the other countries, was promotional only. The B-Side was ""Mad, Mad"
"Where the Dead Men Lie Where the Dead Men Lie is a poem by Australian poet Barcroft Boake. It was first published in ""The Bulletin"" magazine on 19 December 1891, and later in the poet's poetry collection ""Where the Dead Men Lie, and Other Poems"" (1897). J. Larcombe in ""The Worker"" considered the poem ""Boake's masterpiece...In it the young poet expressed his detestation of the cruel, selfish squatters, their inhuman conduct, and the tragedy for which they were responsible."" ""The Oxford Companion to Australian Literature"" states ""In the poem Boake uses the contemptuous name 'Moneygrub' to denote the typical wealthy"
"""The Waste Land""."" It is Eliot's major poem of the late 1920s. Similar to Eliot's other works, its themes are overlapping and fragmentary. Post-war Europe under the Treaty of Versailles (which Eliot despised), the difficulty of hope and religious conversion, Eliot's failed marriage. Allen Tate perceived a shift in Eliot's method, writing, ""The mythologies disappear altogether in ""The Hollow Men""."" This is a striking claim for a poem as indebted to Dante as anything else in Eliot's early work, to say little of the modern English mythology—the ""Old Guy Fawkes"" of the Gunpowder Plot—or the colonial and agrarian mythos of"
"Tom o' Bedlam ""Tom o' Bedlam"" is the name of an anonymous poem in the ""mad song"" genre, written in the voice of a homeless ""."" The poem was probably composed at the beginning of the 17th century; in ""How to Read and Why"", Harold Bloom calls it ""the greatest anonymous lyric in the [English] language."" The terms ""Tom o' Bedlam"" and “Bedlam begger” were used in Early Modern Britain and later to describe beggars and vagrants who had or feigned mental illness (see also Abraham-men). Aubrey says they were identified by “an armilla of tin printed, of about three"
"absentee landlord who lives in city luxury provided for him by the ordinary men and women of the outback..."" ""The Cambridge History of Australian Literature"" described the poem ""as by far the bleakest poetic vision"" of the Australian landscape as it evokes ""a haunted frontier."" Where the Dead Men Lie Where the Dead Men Lie is a poem by Australian poet Barcroft Boake. It was first published in ""The Bulletin"" magazine on 19 December 1891, and later in the poet's poetry collection ""Where the Dead Men Lie, and Other Poems"" (1897). J. Larcombe in ""The Worker"" considered the poem ""Boake's"
"tomb. Of his interesting life, Hawker himself wrote: ""What a life mine would be if it were all written and published in a book."" Robert Stephen Hawker Robert Stephen Hawker (1803–1875) was an Anglican priest, poet, antiquarian of Cornwall and reputed eccentric. He is best known as the writer of ""The Song of the Western Men"" with its chorus line of ""And shall Trelawny die? / Here's twenty thousand Cornish men / will know the reason why!"", which he published anonymously in 1825. His name became known after Charles Dickens acknowledged his authorship of ""The Song of the Western Men"""
"ten children. According to ""Tribune""s D. K., ""[he] could talk about the big shearing strikes from close knowledge, could yarn as easily with the Governor-General as with a young folk song enthusiast – and his life spanned more than a half century of Australian experience and tradition."" Duke Tritton Harold Percival Croydon ""Duke"" Tritton (1886-1965) was an Australian poet, folk singer and shearer. His best-known poem, ""The Sandy Hollow Line"", described the hardships of unemployed workers who were given 'sustenance' or 'susso' work such as the construction the Sandy Hollow Maryvale Railway during the Great Depression. The poem was set"
"from Shakespeare's ""Julius Caesar"" or from the character Kurtz in Joseph Conrad's ""Heart of Darkness"" who is referred to as a ""hollow sham"" and ""hollow at the core"". The two epigraphs to the poem, """"Mistah Kurtz – he dead"""" and """"A penny for the Old Guy"""", are allusions to Conrad's character and to Guy Fawkes, attempted arsonist of the English house of Parliament, and his straw-man effigy that is burned each year in the United Kingdom on Guy Fawkes Night, November 5. Eliot’s title, “The Hollow Men”, obliquely acknowledges the bonfires which accompany the celebration of All Hallows’ Eve, falling"
"Duke Tritton Harold Percival Croydon ""Duke"" Tritton (1886-1965) was an Australian poet, folk singer and shearer. His best-known poem, ""The Sandy Hollow Line"", described the hardships of unemployed workers who were given 'sustenance' or 'susso' work such as the construction the Sandy Hollow Maryvale Railway during the Great Depression. The poem was set to music by John Dengate and was subsequently recorded by local artists including Warren Fahey. Tritton was a founding member of the Sydney Bush Music Club. He assisted John Meredith in collecting old bush songs. His autobiography, ""Time Means Tucker"", was published by ""The Bulletin"" in 1959."
"also wrote the hymn Let us with a gladsome mind, a versification of Psalm 136. His 'L'Allegro' and 'Il Penseroso', with additional material, were magnificently set by Handel (1740). John Milton John Milton (9 December 16088 November 1674) was an English poet, polemicist, man of letters, and civil servant for the Commonwealth of England under its Council of State and later under Oliver Cromwell. He wrote at a time of religious flux and political upheaval, and is best known for his epic poem ""Paradise Lost"" (1667), written in blank verse. Writing in English, Latin, Greek, and Italian, he achieved international"
"The Absent-Minded Beggar ""The Absent-Minded Beggar"" is an 1899 poem by Rudyard Kipling, set to music by Sir Arthur Sullivan and often accompanied by an illustration of a wounded but defiant British soldier, ""A Gentleman in Kharki"", by Richard Caton Woodville. The song was written as part of an appeal by the ""Daily Mail"" to raise money for soldiers fighting in the Second Boer War and their families. The fund was the first such charitable effort for a war. The chorus of the song exhorted its audience to ""pass the hat for your credit's sake, and pay– pay– pay!"" The"
"Joseph Conrad and James George Frazer, which, at least for reasons of textual history, echo in ""The Waste Land"". The ""continuous parallel between contemporaneity and antiquity"" that is so characteristic of his mythical method remained in fine form. ""The Hollow Men"" contains some of Eliot's most famous lines, notably its conclusion: ""This is the way the world ends""""Not with a bang but a whimper."" ""Ash-Wednesday"" is the first long poem written by Eliot after his 1927 conversion to Anglicanism. Published in 1930, it deals with the struggle that ensues when one who has lacked faith acquires it. Sometimes referred to"
"The Hollow Man (Simmons novel) The Hollow Man is a novel by American author Dan Simmons. The book was initially published by Bantam Books on September 1, 1992. It narrates the story of a university lecturer who has the ability to ""hear"" the thoughts of others, an ability he shares with his dying wife. There are numerous themes in this novel which are expanded in later works, most notably a set of theories on the nature of and perception of reality (see ""Ilium""). Conversely at least one character, Vanni Fucci, appears in Simmons' earlier 1988 work, ""Vanni Fucci Is Alive"
"Arthur O'Shaughnessy Arthur William Edgar O'Shaughnessy (14 March 184430 January 1881) was a British poet and herpetologist. Of Irish descent, he was born in London. He is most remembered for his ""Ode"", beginning with the words ""We are the music makers, / And we are the dreamers of dreams"", which has been set to music by several composers including Edward Elgar as (as ""The Music Makers)"", Zoltán Kodály and Alfred Reed. At 17, in June 1861, Arthur O'Shaughnessy received the post of transcriber in the library of the British Museum, reportedly through the influence of Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton. Two"
"and confusion between the two manuscripts, neither ""Tom o' Bedlam"" nor ""Mad Maudlin"" can be said to be definitive texts. Tom o' Bedlam ""Tom o' Bedlam"" is the name of an anonymous poem in the ""mad song"" genre, written in the voice of a homeless ""."" The poem was probably composed at the beginning of the 17th century; in ""How to Read and Why"", Harold Bloom calls it ""the greatest anonymous lyric in the [English] language."" The terms ""Tom o' Bedlam"" and “Bedlam begger” were used in Early Modern Britain and later to describe beggars and vagrants who had or"
"The Grave (poem) The Grave is a blank verse poem by the Scottish poet Robert Blair. It is the work for which he is primarily renowned. According to Blair, in a letter he wrote to Dr. Dodderidge, the greater part of the poem was composed before he became a minister, Edinburgh editor and publisher John Johnstone stating that it was composed whilst he was still a student, although ""probably corrected and amplified by his more matured judgement"". The poem, 767 lines long, is an exemplar of what became known as the school of graveyard poetry. Part of the poem's continued"
"Robert Stephen Hawker Robert Stephen Hawker (1803–1875) was an Anglican priest, poet, antiquarian of Cornwall and reputed eccentric. He is best known as the writer of ""The Song of the Western Men"" with its chorus line of ""And shall Trelawny die? / Here's twenty thousand Cornish men / will know the reason why!"", which he published anonymously in 1825. His name became known after Charles Dickens acknowledged his authorship of ""The Song of the Western Men"" in the serial magazine ""Household Words"". Hawker was born in the clergy house of Charles Church, Plymouth, on 3 December 1803. He was the"
"Inkulab ""Makkal Pavalar"" Inkulab (also spelt Inquilab, Inkulab or Ingulab) (; c. 1944 – 1 December 2016) was an Indian rationalist Tamil poet/writer, activist, and Communist with Marxist Leninist inclination. He retired as a professor of Tamil at The New College, Chennai, Tamil Nadu. His birth name is Shahul Hameed and a known follower of Periyar. His poems espousing rationality have been critically acclaimed. ""Kanmani Rajam"", his most famous poem, criticizes the moral bankruptcy of politicians. His song/poem ""Naanga Manushangada (We are human beings)"" is a famous dalit-freedom song that is still played in many dalit gatherings. Avvai, his drama"
"his 1925 poem “The Hollow Men”. The main character in the comic book series ""V for Vendetta"", which started in 1982, and its 2006 film adaptation, wore a Guy Fawkes mask. In the comic and in the film, ""V"" succeeds in blowing up the Houses of Parliament on 5 November (1997 in the comic, 2021 in the film). Its film adaptation opening shows a dramatised depiction of Fawkes's arrest and execution, with Evey narrating the first lines of the poem of Guy Fawkes Night. In the ""Doctor Who"" Virgin Missing Adventures novel ""The Plotters"", the First Doctor and his companions"
"Alphonse Allais Alphonse Allais (20 October 1854 – 28 October 1905) was a French writer and humorist, who was born in Honfleur, Calvados, and who died in Paris. He is the author of many collections of whimsical writings. A poet as much as a humorist, he cultivated the verse form known as holorhyme, i.e. made up entirely of homophonous verses, where entire lines are pronounced the same. For example: Par les bois du djinn où s'entasse de l'effroi, Parle et bois du gin, ou cent tasses de lait froid. Allais wrote the earliest known example of a completely silent musical"
"The Waste Land The Waste Land is a long poem by T. S. Eliot, widely regarded as one of the most important poems of the 20th century and a central work of modernist poetry. Published in 1922, the 434-line poem first appeared in the United Kingdom in the October issue of Eliot's ""The Criterion"" and in the United States in the November issue of ""The Dial"". It was published in book form in December 1922. Among its famous phrases are ""April is the cruellest month"", ""I will show you fear in a handful of dust"", and the mantra in the"
"him—one verse, For the heavy hearts of soldiers. Hush'd Be the Camps To-Day ""Hush'd Be the Camps To-Day"" is a poem by Walt Whitman dedicated to Abraham Lincoln. The poem was written on April 19, 1865, shortly after Lincoln's assassination. Whitman went on to write additional poetry about Lincoln: ""O Captain! My Captain!"", ""When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd"", and ""This Dust Was Once the Man."" Whitman was inspired to write the poem by real life experiences. He was home in Brooklyn on a break from his job with the Department of the Interior when he heard of Lincoln's"
"To Our Beloved Dead ""To Our Beloved Dead"" is a poem by the Australian poet Professor Leslie Holdsworth Allen. A sandstone war memorial was designed by architect William Hardy Wilson for Newington College and was dedicated on 11 May 1922 by the Governor-General of Australia, Henry Forster, 1st Baron Forster. Allen wrote the poem in memory of the occasion. The memorial comprises a semi-circular wall and seat, with pillars surmounted by white stone urns at either end and a column with a sundial in the centre. The inscriptions on the wall and sundial read: <poem> Approach this shrine of stone"
"Hasrat Mohani Hasrat Mohani (1 January 1875 – 13 May 1951) was an Indian activist in the Indian independence movement, and a noted poet of the Urdu language. He coined the notable slogan ""Inquilab Zindabad"" (that translates to ""Long live the revolution!"") in 1921. Together with Swami Kumaranand, he is regarded as the first person to demand complete independence for India in 1921 at the Ahmedabad Session of the Indian National Congress. He was born in 1878 as Syed Fazl-ul-Hasan at Mohan, a town in the Unnao district of United Provinces in British India. Hasrat was his pen name (takhallus)"
"end of the novel. The Hollow Man (Simmons novel) The Hollow Man is a novel by American author Dan Simmons. The book was initially published by Bantam Books on September 1, 1992. It narrates the story of a university lecturer who has the ability to ""hear"" the thoughts of others, an ability he shares with his dying wife. There are numerous themes in this novel which are expanded in later works, most notably a set of theories on the nature of and perception of reality (see ""Ilium""). Conversely at least one character, Vanni Fucci, appears in Simmons' earlier 1988 work,"