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"Square, London, was used as Poirot's fictional London residence, ""Whitehaven Mansions"". The final episode to be filmed was ""Dead Man's Folly"" in June 2013 on the Greenway Estate (which was Agatha Christie's home) broadcast on 30 October 2013. Most of the locations and buildings where the episodes were shot were given fictional names. Suchet was recommended for the part by Christie's family, who had seen him appear as Blott in the TV adaptation of Tom Sharpe's ""Blott on the Landscape"". Suchet, a method actor, said that he prepared for the part by reading all the ""Poirot"" novels and every short"
"Landscape with the Fall of Icarus (poem) ""Landscape with the Fall of Icarus"" is an ecphrastic poem by the 20th-century American poet William Carlos Williams that was written in response to ""Landscape with the Fall of Icarus"", traditionally attributed to Pieter Bruegel. Williams first published the poem as part of a sequence in ""The Hudson Review"" in 1960, subsequently using the sequence as the basis for his final book, ""Pictures from Brueghel and Other Poems"", published in 1962. The poem, as indicated by the title, touches upon the Greek tragedy of Icarus, the story in which Icarus, the son of"
"Banjo Paterson Andrew Barton ""Banjo"" Paterson, (17 February 18645 February 1941) was an Australian bush poet, journalist and author. He wrote many ballads and poems about Australian life, focusing particularly on the rural and outback areas, including the district around Binalong, New South Wales, where he spent much of his childhood. Paterson's more notable poems include ""Clancy of the Overflow"" (1889), ""The Man from Snowy River"" (1890) and ""Waltzing Matilda"" (1895), regarded widely as Australia's unofficial national anthem. Andrew Barton Paterson was born at the property ""Narrambla"", near Orange, New South Wales, the eldest son of Andrew Bogle Paterson, a"
"Lorenz Hart Lorenz Milton Hart (May 2, 1895 – November 22, 1943) was the lyricist half of the Broadway songwriting team Rodgers and Hart. Some of his more famous lyrics include ""Blue Moon,"" ""Mountain Greenery,"" ""The Lady Is a Tramp,"" ""Manhattan,"" ""Where or When,"" ""Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered,"" ""Falling in Love with Love,"" ""Have You Met Miss Jones?,"" ""My Funny Valentine,"" ""I Could Write a Book"", ""This Can't Be Love"", ""With a Song in My Heart"", ""It Never Entered My Mind"", and ""Isn't It Romantic?"". Hart was born in Harlem, the elder of two sons, to Jewish immigrant parents, Max"
"Chuck Brodsky Chuck Brodsky (born May 20, 1960 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American musician and singer-songwriter currently living in Asheville, North Carolina. He is particularly known for his often humorous and political lyrics, as well as his songs about baseball, such as ""The Ballad of Eddie Klep"", ""Moe Berg: The Song"", and ""Doc Ellis' No-No"". On his 2004 album ""Color Came One Day"", he took on pollution in ""Seven Miles Upwind"", the destruction of independent business and regional culture by multinational corporations in ""Trees Falling"", and the abridgement of civil liberties associated with Bush administration policies in ""Dangerous Times""."
"Sydney Carter Sydney Bertram Carter (6 May 1915 – 13 March 2004) was an English poet, songwriter, folk musician, born in Camden Town, London. He is best known for the song ""Lord of the Dance"" (1967), set to the tune of the American Shaker song ""Simple Gifts"", and the song ""The Crow on the Cradle"". Other notable songs include ""Julian of Norwich"" (sometimes called ""The Bells of Norwich""), based on words of Julian of Norwich, ""One More Step Along the World I Go"", ""When I Needed a Neighbour"", ""Friday Morning"", ""Every Star Shall Sing a Carol"", ""The Youth of the"
"Ballard MacDonald Ballard MacDonald (October 15, 1882 – November 17, 1935) was an American lyricist, who was one of the writers of Tin Pan Alley. Born in Portland, Oregon, he was a charter member of the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP). MacDonald wrote lyrics for a song called ""Play That Barber-Shop Chord"" in 1910, which became a hit with revised lyrics when it was sung in The Ziegfeld Follies by vaudeville star Bert Williams. He subsequently worked with composer Harry Carroll on ""On the Mississippi"" (1912) and ""The Trail of the Lonesome Pine"" (1912, based on the"
"Poème sur le désastre de Lisbonne The Poème sur le désastre de Lisbonne (English title: ""Poem on the Lisbon Disaster"") is a poem in French composed by Voltaire as a response to the 1755 Lisbon earthquake. It is widely regarded as an introduction to Voltaire's later acclaimed work ""Candide"" and his view on the problem of evil. The 180-line poem was composed in December 1755 and published in 1756. It is considered one of the most savage literary attacks on Optimism. The earthquake of 1 November 1755 completely devastated the Portuguese capital Lisbon. The city was reduced to ruins, and"
"Cecil Sharp Three roads are named after Butterworth: George Butterworth George Sainton Kaye Butterworth, MC (12 July 18855 August 1916) was an English composer who was best known for the orchestral idyll ""The Banks of Green Willow"" and his song settings of A. E. Housman's poems from ""A Shropshire Lad"". Butterworth was born in Paddington, London. Soon after his birth, his family moved to York so that his father Sir Alexander Kaye Butterworth could take up an appointment as general manager of the North Eastern Railway, which was based there. Their home was at Riseholme, a house on Driffield Terrace,"
"Nothin' 'Bout my Life Wrote Out, Because I Had it Too Rough in Life"". Dorsey Dixon Dorsey Murdock Dixon (October 14, 1897, Darlington, South Carolina – April 18, 1968, Plant City, Florida) was an American old-time and country music songwriter and musician. He was also a millworker who spent much of his life working in textile mills in North and South Carolina. Dixon's best known songs were ""Wreck on the Highway"", which resulted in a copyright dispute with country musician Roy Acuff, and ""Babies in the Mill"", which was about the Southern textile industry's exploitation of child labor in the"
"Wreck on the Highway (Bruce Springsteen song) ""Wreck on the Highway"" is a song written and performed by Bruce Springsteen. It was originally released as the final track on his fifth album, ""The River"". The version released on ""The River"" was recorded at The Power Station in New York in March–April 1980. As well as being the last track on ""The River"", it was the last song recorded for the album. A melancholic song with a false ending, ""Wreck on the Highway"" features prominent organ and acoustic guitar parts. The song is structured as a folk ballad with four verses"
"Grant Clarke Grant Clarke (May 14, 1891, Akron, Ohio – May 16, 1931, California) was an American songwriter. Clarke moved to New York City early in his career, where he worked as an actor and a staff writer for comedians. He began working on Tin Pan Alley, where he contributed music to films such as ""The Jazz Singer"" (1927), ""Weary River"" (1928), ""On with the Show"" (1929) and ""Is Everybody Happy?"" (1929). He wrote the lyrics to the show ""Dixie to Broadway"", and also contributed to the 1921 ""Ziegfeld Follies"" and ""Bombo"". Later in his career he became a charter"
"Bruce Blunt George Henry Bruce Blunt, otherwise known as Bruce Blunt (1 July 1899 – 8 July 1957) was an English poet, journalist and wine merchant best known for his collaborations with the composer Peter Warlock. In ""Frederick Delius and Peter Warlock: a friendship revealed"" he is described as a ""bon viveur, poet, journalist, and writer on wine, gardening, and the turf."" His poetry is included in the 1932 anthology ""Modern Poets"" edited by J. C. Squire. For Warlock he wrote a number of short song texts including the carol ""Bethlehem Down"" (1927) and the songs ""The Fox"", ""The Frostbound"
"Charles Brasch Charles Orwell Brasch (27 July 1909 – 20 May 1973) was a New Zealand poet, literary editor and arts patron. He was the founding editor of the literary journal ""Landfall"". Brasch was born in Dunedin, the son of lawyer Hyam Brasch (who later changed his name to Henry Brash) and Helene Fels, a member of the prominent Hallenstein family of clothing merchants. He began writing poetry at Waitaki Boys' High School and entered St John's College, Oxford, in 1927 where he gained an 'ignominious third' in Modern History (to his father's disappointment). His contemporaries at Oxford included W."
"critical essays, along with translations, an essay by Ginny Stanford, past interviews, and tribute poems. Frank Stanford Frank Stanford (August 1, 1948 – June 3, 1978) was an American poet. He is most known for his epic, ""The Battlefield Where The Moon Says I Love You""—a labyrinthine poem without stanzas or punctuation. In addition, Stanford published six shorter books of poetry throughout his 20s, and three posthumous collections of his writings (as well as a book of selected poems) have also been published. Frank Stanford was born Francis Gildart Smith on August 1, 1948 to widow Dorothy Margaret Smith at"
"Hart Crane Harold Hart Crane (July 21, 1899 – April 27, 1932) was an American poet. Finding both inspiration and provocation in the poetry of T. S. Eliot, Crane wrote modernist poetry that was difficult, highly stylized, and ambitious in its scope. In his most ambitious work, ""The Bridge"", Crane sought to write an epic poem, in the vein of ""The Waste Land"", that expressed a more optimistic view of modern, urban culture than the one that he found in Eliot's work. In the years following his suicide at the age of 32, Crane has been hailed by playwrights, poets,"
"Landscape with a Castle Landscape with a Castle is a painting by Rembrandt, now in the Louvre in Paris. Art historians have variously dated it to 1652 (Rein van Eysinga), 1654 (Frederik Schmidt-Degener), early 1640 (Abraham Bredius and Horst Gerson), 1648 (Kurt Bauch), 1640-1642 (Jacques Foucart), c.1640 (Christian Tümpel) and 1643-1646 (Leonard J. Slatkes). It is first recorded in the 1692 inventory of Geertruyt Brasser in Delft as ""a castle by Rembrandt"" - she was the widow of Johan van der Chys. It was later recorded in the collection of Jan Pieter van Suchtelen, a Russian general from the Netherlands."
"The Lay of the Last Minstrel ""The Lay of the Last Minstrel"" (1805) is a long narrative poem by Walter Scott. (It should not be confused with ""Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border"", also by Walter Scott, compiled three years previously.) Scott had spent considerable time in compiling a collection of traditional ballads. He began ""The Lay of the Last Minstrel"" in 1802 and intended it as part of ""Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border"". Scott was kicked by a horse, while on maneuvers with his cavalry regiment. He worked on the first Canto while recuperating. When the Countess of Dalkeith suggested"
"Incident on 57th Street ""Incident on 57th Street"" is a song written by Bruce Springsteen that was first released on his 1973 album ""The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle"". It has been described by critics as a key development in Springsteen's songwriting career. ""Incident on 57th Street"" was the last song Springsteen recorded for ""The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle"". As with the rest of the album, it was recorded at 914 Sound Studios in Blauvelt, New York. Springsteen had been working on it under the working title ""Puerto Rican Jane."" It was one"
"Heathcote Williams John Henley Heathcote-Williams (15 November 1941 – 1 July 2017), known as Heathcote Williams, was an English poet, actor, political activist and dramatist. He wrote a number of book-length polemical poems including ""Autogeddon"", ""Falling for a Dolphin"" and ""Whale Nation"", which in 1988 became, according to Philip Hoare, ""the most powerful argument for the newly instigated worldwide ban on whaling."" Williams invented his idiosyncratic ""documentary/investigative poetry"" style which he put to good purpose bringing a diverse range of environmental and political matters to public attention. His last published work, ""American Porn"" was a critique of the American political"
"On the Mall ""On the Mall"" is a famous march composed by American bandmaster Edwin Franko Goldman (1878–1956). It vies with Goldman's ""Chimes of Liberty"" as his two most popular compositions. ""On the Mall"" still in 2013, as indicated by Jack Kopstein, remains a featured march and continues to be performed and recorded by bands throughout America and around the world. The score of ""On the Mall"" was first published in 1923 by Carl Fischer LLC. A version edited by Edward S. Lisk is frequently used. Goldman wrote a number of marches whose titles begin with words ""On the"", with"
"Walt Whitman Walter ""Walt"" Whitman (; May 31, 1819 – March 26, 1892) was an American poet, essayist, and journalist. A humanist, he was a part of the transition between transcendentalism and realism, incorporating both views in his works. Whitman is among the most influential poets in the American canon, often called the father of free verse. His work was very controversial in its time, particularly his poetry collection ""Leaves of Grass"", which was described as obscene for its overt sexuality. Born in Huntington on Long Island, Whitman worked as a journalist, a teacher, a government clerk, and—in addition to"
"as 'The Destruction of the Bastille' and 'Monody on the Death of Chatterton' behind him"". The Destruction of the Bastile The Destruction of the Bastile was composed by Samuel Taylor Coleridge in 1789. The poem describes Coleridge's feelings of hopes for the French Revolution as a catalyst for political change. When the Bastille was overrun during the French Revolution and destroyed in July 1789, many political liberals within Britain celebrated. The schoolboy Coleridge, in particular, leaned towards radical views and would later become more and more radical although his views within ""The Destruction of the Bastile"" are more moderate. Although"
"The Destruction of the Bastile The Destruction of the Bastile was composed by Samuel Taylor Coleridge in 1789. The poem describes Coleridge's feelings of hopes for the French Revolution as a catalyst for political change. When the Bastille was overrun during the French Revolution and destroyed in July 1789, many political liberals within Britain celebrated. The schoolboy Coleridge, in particular, leaned towards radical views and would later become more and more radical although his views within ""The Destruction of the Bastile"" are more moderate. Although the poem was composed following the Bastille's destruction, it was not published until 1834. The"
"and other French-Canadian poems"", the volume that transformed Drummond into one of the most popular authors in the English-speaking world."" According to his wife's unpublished biography, Drummond wrote ""The Wreck of the ""Julie Plante"""" in 1879. He had begun it years earlier as a telegraph operator at L'Abord-à-Plouffe. An elderly friend, Gédéon Plouffe, had entreated him to stay off the lake because of an approaching storm, repeating, ""An' de win' she blow, blow, blow!"" Those words ""rang so persistently in [Drummond's] ears that, at the dead of night, unable to stand any longer the haunting refrain, he sprang from his"
"Dorsey Dixon Dorsey Murdock Dixon (October 14, 1897, Darlington, South Carolina – April 18, 1968, Plant City, Florida) was an American old-time and country music songwriter and musician. He was also a millworker who spent much of his life working in textile mills in North and South Carolina. Dixon's best known songs were ""Wreck on the Highway"", which resulted in a copyright dispute with country musician Roy Acuff, and ""Babies in the Mill"", which was about the Southern textile industry's exploitation of child labor in the early 20th century. Dorsey Dixon was born on October 14, 1897 in Darlington, South"
"Lew Brown Lew Brown (born Louis Brownstein, , December 10, 1893 – February 5, 1958) was a lyricist for popular songs in the United States. During World War I and the Roaring Twenties, he wrote lyrics for several of the top Tin Pan Alley composers, especially Albert Von Tilzer. Brown was one third of a successful songwriting and music publishing team with Buddy DeSylva and Ray Henderson from 1925 until 1931. Brown also wrote or co-wrote many Broadway shows and Hollywood films. Among his most-popular songs are ""Button Up Your Overcoat"", ""Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree"", ""Life Is Just"
"Knock on Wood (song) ""Knock On Wood"" is a 1966 hit song written by Eddie Floyd and Steve Cropper and originally performed by Floyd. His recording peaked at number 28 on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 and spent one week at number 1 on the Soul Singles chart. The song was written in the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee (now The National Civil Rights Museum). Steve Cropper has stated in interviews that there was a lightning storm the night that he and Eddie wrote the song, hence the lyrics 'It's like thunder and lightning, The way you love me is frightening'."
"On the Banks of the Old Ponchartrain On the Banks of the Old Ponchartrain is a song written by Hank Williams and Ramona Vincent. It was the singer's second single on MGM Records, released in September 1947. According to biographer Colin Escott, Ramona Vincent, a crippled woman, wrote the words of the song as a poem and sent it to Williams, who put a melody to it. The song was paired with Fred Rose's novelty ""Fly Trouble,"" resulting in perhaps the oddest single the singer ever released. The song was recorded at Castle Studio in Nashville on August 4, 1947"
"Dorothy Fields Dorothy Fields (July 15, 1904 – March 28, 1974) was an American librettist and lyricist. She wrote over 400 songs for Broadway musicals and films. Her best-known pieces include ""The Way You Look Tonight"" (1936), ""A Fine Romance"" (1936), ""On the Sunny Side of the Street"" (1930), ""Don't Blame Me"" (1948), ""Pick Yourself Up"" (1936), ""I'm in the Mood for Love"" (1935) and ""You Couldn't Be Cuter"" (1938). Throughout her career, she collaborated with various influential figures in the American musical theater, including Jerome Kern, Cy Coleman, Irving Berlin, and Jimmy McHugh. Along with Ann Ronell, Dana Suesse,"
"Barcelona"", with Springsteen on solo piano. Incident on 57th Street ""Incident on 57th Street"" is a song written by Bruce Springsteen that was first released on his 1973 album ""The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle"". It has been described by critics as a key development in Springsteen's songwriting career. ""Incident on 57th Street"" was the last song Springsteen recorded for ""The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle"". As with the rest of the album, it was recorded at 914 Sound Studios in Blauvelt, New York. Springsteen had been working on it under the working title"
"Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802 ""Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802"" is a Petrarchan sonnet by William Wordsworth describing London and the River Thames, viewed from Westminster Bridge in the early morning. It was first published in the collection ""Poems, in Two Volumes"" in 1807. The sonnet was originally dated 1803, but this was corrected in later editions and the date of composition given precisely as 31 July 1802, when Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy were travelling to Calais to visit Annette Vallon and his daughter Caroline by Annette, prior to his forthcoming marriage to Mary Hutchinson."
"The Field of Waterloo The Field of Waterloo is a poem by Sir Walter Scott, written and published in 1815. After the allied victory at the battle of Waterloo on 18 June 1815, Scott travelled to Belgium in August, and was one of the first British civilians to visit the battlefield. Scott was hoping to recover his expenses by publishing an account of his travels (in the form of imaginary letters), published as ""Paul's Letters to His Kinsfolk"" (1816). The profits from Scott's poem about the battle were intended to go to a fund for widows and orphans of soldiers."