Because A. A. Milne was critical towards him for pandering to Germans during WWII, which English author created a ridiculous character named Timothy Bobbin to parody some of Milne's poetry?
"G. Wodehouse's ""A Damsel in Distress"". ""The World of Pooh"" won the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award in 1958. The success of his children's books was to become a source of considerable annoyance to Milne, whose self-avowed aim was to write whatever he pleased and who had, until then, found a ready audience for each change of direction: he had freed pre-war ""Punch"" from its ponderous facetiousness; he had made a considerable reputation as a playwright (like his idol J. M. Barrie) on both sides of the Atlantic; he had produced a witty piece of detective writing in ""The Red House"
"A. A. Milne Alan Alexander Milne (; 18 January 1882 – 31 January 1956) was a British author, best known for his books about the teddy bear Winnie-the-Pooh and for various poems. Milne was a noted writer, primarily as a playwright, before the huge success of Pooh overshadowed all his previous work. Milne served in both World Wars, joining the British Army in World War I, and was a captain of the British Home Guard in World War II. Alan Alexander Milne was born in Kilburn, London to parents John Vine Milne, who was born in Jamaica, and Sarah Marie"
"I had to say? I said ""Bless Daddy,"" so what can it be? Oh! Now I remember it. God bless Me."" </poem> A. A. Milne Alan Alexander Milne (; 18 January 1882 – 31 January 1956) was a British author, best known for his books about the teddy bear Winnie-the-Pooh and for various poems. Milne was a noted writer, primarily as a playwright, before the huge success of Pooh overshadowed all his previous work. Milne served in both World Wars, joining the British Army in World War I, and was a captain of the British Home Guard in World War"
"T. S. Eliot included the poem in his 1941 collection ""A Choice of Kipling's Verse"". Tommy (Kipling poem) ""Tommy"" is an 1890 poem by Rudyard Kipling, reprinted in his 1892 ""Barrack-Room Ballads"". The poem addresses the ordinary British soldier of Kipling's time in a sympathetic manner. It is written from the point of view of such a soldier, and contrasts the treatment they receive from the general public during peace and during war. The Tommy of the poem is Tommy Atkins, a generic slang name for a common British soldier. A term of uncertain origin, the name ""Thomas Atkins"" was"
"a reference to the poem ""Locksley Hall"" by Alfred Tennyson. At the time of writing there was bad blood between Wodehouse and fellow author A. A. Milne. The book included several satirical jibes aimed at Milne, for instance after Bertie (pressured by Madeline Bassett) agrees to recite Christopher Robin poems at the village concert, he laments: ""A fellow who comes on a platform and starts reciting about Christopher Robin going hoppity-hoppity-hop (or alternatively saying his prayers) does not do so from sheer wantonness but because he is a helpless victim of circumstances beyond his control."" According to a letter Wodehouse"
"to Churchill, who became a terror to the stage. Actor Thomas Davies, in a letter to Garrick, wrote that he blundered in the part of Cymbeline owing ""to my accidentally seeing Mr. Churchill in the pit, it rendering me confused and unmindful of my business"". Churchill's satire made him many enemies, and brought reprisals. In ""Night, an Epistle to Robert Lloyd"" (also published this year), be answered the attacks made on him, offering by way of defence the argument that any faults were better than hypocrisy. Churchill received a considerable sum from sales of the poem, paid off all of"
"Tommy (Kipling poem) ""Tommy"" is an 1890 poem by Rudyard Kipling, reprinted in his 1892 ""Barrack-Room Ballads"". The poem addresses the ordinary British soldier of Kipling's time in a sympathetic manner. It is written from the point of view of such a soldier, and contrasts the treatment they receive from the general public during peace and during war. The Tommy of the poem is Tommy Atkins, a generic slang name for a common British soldier. A term of uncertain origin, the name ""Thomas Atkins"" was used in nineteenth century War Office manuals as a placeholder name to demonstrate how forms"
"Anti-Jacobin"" resembles another great work written at the time: Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s ""Poems of Political Recantation"". Though a great many poems in the ""Poetry of the Anti-Jacobin"" are humorous, some patriotic poems are written in dull Latin and are therefore more serious and tedious. “The political targets of the ""Poetry of the Anti-Jacobin"" are manifold: the villainy of the French, the treachery of the Irish, the hypocrisy of the Whigs, the philanthropic cant of the radical”. Many poets and intellectuals were attacked by the ""Anti-Jacobin"" because of their pro-French position. Also, the ""Anti-Jacobin"" satirized individuals who were considered to have"
"by the distorted moral world he has grown up in, often bothers him most when he is at his best. He is prepared to do good, believing it to be wrong. Twain's younger contemporary Ambrose Bierce (1842–1913) gained notoriety as a cynic, pessimist and black humorist with his dark, bitterly ironic stories, many set during the American Civil War, which satirized the limitations of human perception and reason. Bierce's most famous work of satire is probably ""The Devil's Dictionary"" (1906), in which the definitions mock cant, hypocrisy and received wisdom. Karl Kraus is considered the first major European satirist since"
"also pioneered the mock-heroic. Although Samuel Butler had invented the mock-heroic in English with ""Hudibras"" (written during the Interregnum but published in the Restoration), Dryden's ""MacFlecknoe"" set up the satirical parody. Dryden was himself not of noble blood, and he was never awarded the honours that he had been promised by the King (nor was he repaid the loans he had made to the King), but he did as much as any peer to serve Charles II. Even when James II came to the throne and Roman Catholicism was on the rise, Dryden attempted to serve the court, and his"
"that it owed both its influence and its fame, and of this satire much was in verse, some of the most telling poems being from Canning’s pen"", (Marshall 179). These groups and individuals included: The French and their British allies, radicals, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Robert Southey, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Erasmus Darwin, Thomas Paine, William Godwin, and Mary Wollstonecraft. Styles of poetry that were commonly mocked in the Anti-Jacobin were Orientalism, Gothic, Darwinian didactic couplets, German drama, and sentimentalism. In 1799, William Gifford compiled the most memorable and innovative parts from the ""Anti-Jacobin"": the poems. The ""Poetry of the"
"long after ""Plain Language from Truthful James"" first appeared. The poem was widely attributed to Mark Twain and labeled a ""feeble imitation"" of Harte. Twain angrily denied the charge and demanded a retraction, writing to the editor Thomas Bailey Aldrich, ""I am not in the imitation business"". Harte, in turn, targeted Twain years later in his 1893 story ""Ingénue of the Sierras"" by creating an unsavory character named ""Charley Bing"", modeled after Twain. The incident was one of several in a long rivalry between the two authors. In 1898, ""The Overland Monthly"" ran a poem making fun of Harte himself,"
"Ramsay in Virginia Woolf's ""To The Lighthouse"". Rudyard Kipling wrote poetry in support of the British cause in the Boer War, including the well known ""Lichtenberg"", which is about a combatant's death in a foreign land. Swinburne, Thomas Hardy, and others wrote also poems relating to the Boer War. Hardy's poems include ""Drummer Hodge"",and ""The Man He Killed"". '""Swinburne regularly donated work to the papers to rouse the spirit, from 'Transvaal', with the infamous closing line, 'Strike, England, and strike home', to 'The Turning of the Tide'."" The major novelist and poet Thomas Hardy (1840 – 1928) wrote a number"
"Lampoon"" novel ""Bored of the Rings"" parodies Bombadil as ""Tim Benzedrine"", a stereotypical hippie married to ""Hashberry"". Her name was a reference to Haight-Ashbury, a district of San Francisco widely seen as being the origin of hippie counterculture and nicknamed Hashbury. In the ""Portlandia"" episode ""Motorcycle"", segment ""Small Hatchback"", several hippies are shown singing Bombadil's name. Tom Bombadil Tom Bombadil is a character in J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium. He first appeared in print in a 1934 poem called ""The Adventures of Tom Bombadil"", which also included Old Man Willow and the Barrow-wight. They were not then explicitly part of"
"Namby-pamby Namby Pamby is a term for affected, weak, and maudlin speech/verse. It originates from Namby Pamby (1725) by Henry Carey. Carey wrote his poem as a satire of Ambrose Philips and published it in his ""Poems on Several Occasions"". Its first publication was ""Namby Pamby: or, a panegyrick on the new versification address'd to A----- P----"", where the A-- P-- implicated Ambrose Philips. Philips had written a series of odes in a new prosody of seven-syllable lines and dedicated it to ""all ages and characters, from Walpole ""steerer of the realm"", to Miss Pulteney in the nursery."" This 3.5'"
"Bill Haydon Bill Haydon is a fictional character created by John le Carré who features in le Carré's 1974 novel ""Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy"". He is a senior officer in the British Secret Intelligence Service who serves as a Soviet mole. The novel follows aging spymaster George Smiley's endeavours to uncover the mole. The character is partly modelled after the real-life double agent Kim Philby, part of the notorious Cambridge Five spy ring in Britain, who defected to the USSR in 1963. Haydon was born around 1917; no specific year is given but he is known to have been an"
"4 series, ""The Complete Smiley"", he was portrayed by Michael Feast. Bill Haydon Bill Haydon is a fictional character created by John le Carré who features in le Carré's 1974 novel ""Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy"". He is a senior officer in the British Secret Intelligence Service who serves as a Soviet mole. The novel follows aging spymaster George Smiley's endeavours to uncover the mole. The character is partly modelled after the real-life double agent Kim Philby, part of the notorious Cambridge Five spy ring in Britain, who defected to the USSR in 1963. Haydon was born around 1917; no specific"
"by John Rhind with a bronze head added by William Brodie. As a poet he was one of the leading representatives of what was called the ""Spasmodic"" School, now fallen into oblivion. Smith, P. J. Bailey and Sydney Dobell were satirized by W. E. Aytoun in 1854 in ""Firmilian: a Spasmodic Tragedy"". In the year Sydney Dobell came to Edinburgh, and an acquaintanceship sprang up between the two which resulted in their collaboration in a book of ""War Sonnets"" (1855), inspired by the Crimean War. Smith also published ""City Poems"" (1857) and ""Edwin of Deira"" (1861), a Northumbrian epic poem."
"ashamed to create a Blank Verse Tragedy at the bidding of others."" Milne is most famous for his two ""Pooh"" books about a boy named Christopher Robin after his son, Christopher Robin Milne, and various characters inspired by his son's stuffed animals, most notably the bear named Winnie-the-Pooh. Christopher Robin Milne's stuffed bear, originally named ""Edward,"" was renamed ""Winnie"" after a Canadian black bear named Winnie (after Winnipeg), which was used as a military mascot in World War I, and left to London Zoo during the war. ""The pooh"" comes from a swan the young Milne named ""Pooh."" E. H."
"East, Richard Alison (fl1580-1610, in ""An Hour's Recreation in musicke"", 1606), John Mundy (1592) and Charles-François Gounod (1873) and more recently Norman Dello Joio (1949) and Jim Clark (see ) and Taylor Momsen. ""The Housedove"" exploits a popular image from the period: Tichborne sees himself as an innocent dove caught among his fellow conspirators, (see Shakespeare's ""Romeo and Juliet"" 1.5.48). The ""crafty fowler"" is probably Sir Francis Walsingham, the spymaster who manipulated the Babington plot. Chidiock Tichborne Chidiock Tichborne (after 24 August 1562 – 20 September 1586), erroneously referred to as Charles, was an English conspirator and poet. Tichborne was"
"and journals: J. A. Lindon James Albert Lindon ( – 16 December 1979) was an English puzzle enthusiast and poet specializing in light verse, constrained writing, and children's poetry. Lindon was based in Addlestone and Weybridge. His poems often won weekly newspaper competitions, but seldom appeared in anthologies. Among his anthologized works include numerous parodies, including spoofs of Dylan Thomas, E. E. Cummings, T. E. Brown, Lewis Carroll, Rudyard Kipling, and Ernest L. Thayer. His palindromic poems appeared occasionally in """", and several were collected in Howard W. Bergerson's ""Palindromes and Anagrams"". Lindon is also noted as being the world's"
"has been used as children's literature since Carey's day. Namby-pamby Namby Pamby is a term for affected, weak, and maudlin speech/verse. It originates from Namby Pamby (1725) by Henry Carey. Carey wrote his poem as a satire of Ambrose Philips and published it in his ""Poems on Several Occasions"". Its first publication was ""Namby Pamby: or, a panegyrick on the new versification address'd to A----- P----"", where the A-- P-- implicated Ambrose Philips. Philips had written a series of odes in a new prosody of seven-syllable lines and dedicated it to ""all ages and characters, from Walpole ""steerer of the"
"and abridged editions continuously published in a dozen languages around the world. See Translations of ""The Devil's Dictionary"". ""The Devil's Dictionary"" has spawned many successors, including: The Devil's Dictionary The Devil's Dictionary is a satirical dictionary written by American Civil War soldier, wit, and writer Ambrose Bierce consisting of common words followed by humorous and satirical definitions. The lexicon was written over three decades as a series of installments for magazines and newspapers. Bierce's witty definitions were imitated and plagiarized for years before he gathered them into books, first as The Cynic's Word Book in 1906 and then in a"
"instance, at the time of its publication, many people misunderstood Swift's purpose in ""A Modest Proposal"", assuming it to be a serious recommendation of economically motivated cannibalism. Some critics of Mark Twain see ""Huckleberry Finn"" as racist and offensive, missing the point that its author clearly intended it to be satire (racism being in fact only one of a number of Mark Twain's known concerns attacked in ""Huckleberry Finn""). This same misconception was suffered by the main character of the 1960s British television comedy satire ""Till Death Us Do Part"". The character of Alf Garnett (played by Warren Mitchell) was"
"for not writing a sequel about the way in which England was treating its old soldiers. Some sources treat the poem as an account of a real event, but other commentators class the destitute old soldiers as allegorical, with the visit invented by Kipling to draw attention to the poverty in which the real survivors were living, in the same way that he evoked Tommy Atkins in ""The Absent Minded Beggar"". Unlike Tennyson's poem, and like first-person accounts of the Light Brigade, Kipling's poem was largely ignored. The Last of the Light Brigade ""The Last of the Light Brigade"" is"
"</poem> Twain's character of ""Emmeline Grangerford"", appearing in ""The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"", was inspired by the genre, and in large measure by Moore's verse. Twain's was by no means the only parody the genre inspired. Max Adeler mocked the obituary poets in his 1874 ""Out of the Hurly Burly"", and Eugene Field produced ""The Little Peach"": The obituary poets were, in the popular stereotype, either women or clergymen. Obituary poetry may be the source of some of the murder ballads and other traditional narrative verse of the United States, and the sentimental tales told by the obituary poets showed"
"Empiricists"", along with John Locke and Thomas Hobbes. However, he footnotes Locke, along with Algernon Sidney, Rapin de Thoyras and Benjamin Hoadley, as authors whose ""compositions the most despicable, both for style and matter, have been extolled, and propagated, and read; as if they had equalled the most celebrated remains of antiquity"". Sidney was a complex man. He was appalled by the death sentence on Charles I, but later wrote tracts justifying the deed. In 1683, he was beheaded for alleged complicity in the Rye House plot to murder Charles II, after a notoriously unfair trial. Rapin was a French"
"that, in Coleridge's 1796 collection, ""The poem which had the most popular impact remained the controversial 'To a Young Jack Ass'."" The poem inspired James Gillray to poke fun at Coleridge, William Godwin, and Robert Southey by depicting them with the ears of a jack ass in a caricature titled ""New Morality"" in the July 1798 ""Anti-Jacobin Magazine"". Likewise, James and Horace Smith parodied the poem in a piece called ""Play house Musings"". Lord Byron would mention the Gillray image in his ""English Bards and Scotch Renewers"" series later. Of the criticism, Coleridge was not bothered by anything except Gillray's"
"in 1711, where the Hudibrastic, which had been born in Samuel Butler's imitation of Cervantes, now became the fit medium for a translation of the original (""CBEL""). Tom D'Urfey's ""Wit and Mirth: or Pills to Purge Melancholy"" (1719 for last authorial revision) was another satire that attempted to offer entertainment, rather than a specific bit of political action. D'Urfey (or ""Durfey"" as he was born) was a stutterer whose clownishness and willingness to be the butt of a joke so long as a joke was told made him a favorite of the nobility and court, and his career straddles the"
"day were jealous of their fame, self-promotion of such an overt sort was shocking, and Cibber offended Christian humility as well as gentlemanly modesty. Additionally, Cibber consistently fails to see fault in his own character, praises his vices, and makes no apology for his misdeeds; so it was not merely the fact of the autobiography, but the manner of it that shocked contemporaries. His diffuse and chatty writing style, conventional in poetry and sometimes incoherent in prose, was bound to look even worse in contrast to stylists like Pope. Henry Fielding satirically tried Cibber for murder of the English language"
"fancy"". Dickens's biographer Claire Tomalin regards him as the greatest creator of character in English fiction after Shakespeare. Dickensian characters are amongst the most memorable in English literature, especially so because of their typically whimsical names. The likes of Ebenezer Scrooge, Tiny Tim, Jacob Marley, Bob Cratchit, Oliver Twist, The Artful Dodger, Fagin, Bill Sikes, Pip, Miss Havisham, Sydney Carton, Charles Darnay, David Copperfield, Mr. Micawber, Abel Magwitch, Daniel Quilp, Samuel Pickwick, Wackford Squeers, and Uriah Heep are so well known as to be part and parcel of British culture, and in some cases have passed into ordinary language: a"
"stage directions and extended soliloquies, in ""Moby-Dick"". In fact, Shakespeare so influenced Melville that the novel's main antagonist, Captain Ahab, is a classic Shakespearean tragic figure, ""a great man brought down by his faults."" Shakespeare has also influenced a number of English poets, especially Romantic poets such as Samuel Taylor Coleridge who were obsessed with self-consciousness, a modern theme Shakespeare anticipated in plays such as ""Hamlet"". Shakespeare's writings were so influential to English poetry of the 1800s that critic George Steiner has called all English poetic dramas from Coleridge to Tennyson ""feeble variations on Shakespearean themes."" Shakespeare's writings greatly influenced"
"1988, which contained the song ""Tilting at Windmills"". Tilting at windmills Tilting at windmills is an English idiom that means attacking imaginary enemies. The expression is derived from the 1605 novel ""Don Quixote"" by Miguel de Cervantes, and the word ""tilt"" in this context comes from jousting. The phrase is sometimes used to describe either confrontations where adversaries are incorrectly perceived, or courses of action that are based on misinterpreted or misapplied heroic, romantic, or idealistic justifications. It may also connote an importune, unfounded, and vain effort against adversaries real or imagined for a vain goal. The phrase comes from"