Which classic fairy tale was first published in written form by Poet Laureate Robert Southey in 1837?
"seen again. The story was first recorded in narrative form by British writer and poet Robert Southey, and first published anonymously as ""The Story of the Three Bears"" in 1837 in a volume of his writings called ""The Doctor"". The same year Southey's tale was published, the story was versified by George Nicol, who acknowledged the anonymous author of ""The Doctor"" as ""the great, original concocter"" of the tale. Southey was delighted with Nicol's effort to bring more exposure to the tale, concerned children might overlook it in ""The Doctor"". Nicol's version was illustrated with engravings by B. Hart (after"
"allow the Sun to awaken sleeping princess (nature). Sleeping Beauty Sleeping Beauty (), or Little Briar Rose (), also titled in English as The Sleeping Beauty in the Woods, is a classic fairy tale which involves a beautiful princess, a sleeping enchantment, and a handsome prince. The tale was originally published by Charles Perrault. The version collected by the Brothers Grimm was an orally transmitted version of the original literary tale published by Perrault in ""Histoires ou contes du temps passé"" in 1697. This in turn was based on ""Sun, Moon, and Talia"" by Italian poet Giambattista Basile (published posthumously"
"Cataract of Lodore ""The Cataract of Lodore"" is a poem written in 1820 by the English poet Robert Southey which describes the Lodore Falls on the Watendlath. One of Southey's most popular poems, ""The Cataract of Lodore"" made an early appearance in Joanna Baillie's 1823 anthology, ""Poems, Chiefly Manuscript, and from Living Authors"". On its inclusion, Baillie wrote Southey, ""Your Cataract of Lodore has pleased & amused me exceedingly ... We shall have the younger part of my readers running about with portions of it in their mouths and shaking their heads to the measure, for these six months to"
"Robert Southey Robert Southey ( or (12 August 1774 – 21 March 1843) was an English poet of the Romantic school, one of the Lake Poets along with William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and England's Poet Laureate for 30 years from 1813 until his death in 1843. Although his fame has been eclipsed by that of Wordsworth and Coleridge, his verse still enjoys some popularity. Southey was also a prolific letter writer, literary scholar, essay writer, historian and biographer. His biographies include the life and works of John Bunyan, John Wesley, William Cowper, Oliver Cromwell and Horatio Nelson. The"
"Sleeping Beauty Sleeping Beauty (), or Little Briar Rose (), also titled in English as The Sleeping Beauty in the Woods, is a classic fairy tale which involves a beautiful princess, a sleeping enchantment, and a handsome prince. The tale was originally published by Charles Perrault. The version collected by the Brothers Grimm was an orally transmitted version of the original literary tale published by Perrault in ""Histoires ou contes du temps passé"" in 1697. This in turn was based on ""Sun, Moon, and Talia"" by Italian poet Giambattista Basile (published posthumously in 1634), which was in turn based on"
"touching one, and the predicament it recalls surprises by its humanity. For once Southey seems to have confronted reality without barricading himself behind moral absolutes."" In 2006, William Spech claimed that ""Roderick"" was ""the last of Southey's long poems, is also the greatest [...] It is a fine, swashbuckling tale, and told with zest."" Roderick the Last of the Goths Roderick the Last of the Goths is an 1814 epic poem composed by Robert Southey. The origins of the poem lie in Southey's wanting to write a poem describing Spain and the story of Rodrigo. Originally entitled ""Pelayo, the Restorer"
"wishes to avoid in his rendering of the ballads by Cervantes. There was no warning device on Inchcape Rock in modern times until 1810, when Robert Stevenson and John Rennie completed construction of the Bell Rock Lighthouse, but Southey's poem popularised the legend of the bell. The Inchcape Rock ""The Inchcape Rock"" is a ballad written by English poet Robert Southey. Published in 1802, it tells the story of a 14th-century attempt by the Abbot of Arbroath (""Aberbrothock"") to install a warning bell on Inchcape, a notorious sandstone reef about off the east coast of Scotland. The poem tells how"
"The Happy Prince and Other Tales The Happy Prince and Other Tales (sometimes called The Happy Prince and Other Stories) is a collection of stories for children by Oscar Wilde first published in May 1888. It contains five stories: ""The Happy Prince"", ""The Nightingale and the Rose"", ""The Selfish Giant"", ""The Devoted Friend"", and ""The Remarkable Rocket"". In a town where a lot of poor people suffer and where there are a lot of miseries, a swallow who was left behind after his flock flew off to Egypt for the winter, meets the statue of the late ""Happy Prince,"" who"
"buried in the churchyard of Crosthwaite Parish Church in Cumbria. He was elected a member of the American Antiquarian Society in 1822. He was also a member of the Royal Spanish Academy. Notes Citations Robert Southey Robert Southey ( or (12 August 1774 – 21 March 1843) was an English poet of the Romantic school, one of the Lake Poets along with William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and England's Poet Laureate for 30 years from 1813 until his death in 1843. Although his fame has been eclipsed by that of Wordsworth and Coleridge, his verse still enjoys some popularity."
"influential and historically the most important of Southey's long poems"" and ""What made ""Thalaba"" distinctive as well as provocative was above all its flamboyant exoticism."" However, he pointed out that ""The chief weakness is the diffuse and tortuous plot which eddies and meanders without any firm principle of progression as the hero posts from stage to mysterious stage."" Sir Granville Bantock authored ""Thalaba the Destroyer – Symphonic Poem"" (1899) based on the poem. Thalaba the Destroyer Thalaba the Destroyer is an 1801 epic poem composed by Robert Southey. The origins of the poem can be traced to Southey's school boy"
"a striking poem"" and that the poem was ""better constructed than the preceding ones"". However, he argued that the poem's ending was ""too crass in its situation and too facile in its resolution to succeed fully even as a moral allegory."" Sir Granville Bantock, who made a symphonic poem out of Southey's ""Thalaba"", planned to do a symphonic poem based on ""The Curse of Kehama"", but only completed two orchestral scenes. Curse of Kehama The Curse of Kehama is an 1810 epic poem composed by Robert Southey. The origins of the poem can be traced to Southey's schoolboy days when"
"Southey, her future husband, but his publisher, John Murray was discouraging, then to the poet and editor James Montgomery. The work was published by Longman in 1820 as ""Ellen Fitzarthur: a Poem in Five Cantos"" and reached a second edition in 1822. Much of her work was published initially in ""Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine"" after she struck up a lively correspondence with William Blackwood. Bowles's first meeting with Southey in 1820 led to a proposal that they jointly write an epic poem about Robin Hood, although this only yielded ""Robin Hood: A Fragment"" after Southey's death. From the outset she could"
"which are literary fairy tales Giambattista Basile wrote and published the ""Pentamerone"" a collection of literary fairy tales, the first collection of stories to contain solely the stories later to be known as fairy tales. Both of these works includes the oldest recorded form of many well-known (and more obscure) European fairy tales. This was the beginning of a tradition that would both influence the fantasy genre and be incorporated in it, as many works of fairytale fantasy appear to this day. William Shakespeare's ""A Midsummer Night's Dream"" (1594/5), the Weird Sisters in ""Macbeth"" and Prospero in ""The Tempest"" (or"
"Fairy Tales Told for Children (1838) Fairy Tales Told for Children. New Collection. First Booklet (, 1838) is a collection of three fairy tales by Hans Christian Andersen published in Copenhagen, Denmark by C. A. Reitzel on 2 October 1838. The collection consists of ""The Daisy"", ""The Steadfast Tin Soldier"", and ""The Wild Swans"". ""The Daisy"" tells of happy little daisy who is taken up with a plot of earth to line the bottom of a bird cage where a lark is held captive. When he dies and is given an elaborate funeral by the children, she is cast into"
"The Inchcape Rock ""The Inchcape Rock"" is a ballad written by English poet Robert Southey. Published in 1802, it tells the story of a 14th-century attempt by the Abbot of Arbroath (""Aberbrothock"") to install a warning bell on Inchcape, a notorious sandstone reef about off the east coast of Scotland. The poem tells how the bell was removed by a pirate, who subsequently perished on the reef while returning to Scotland in bad weather some time later. Like many of Southey's ballads ""The Inchcape Rock"" describes a supernatural event, but its basic theme is that those who do bad things"
"will ultimately be punished accordingly and poetic justice done. Southey wrote the poem between 1796 and 1798 for ""The Morning Post"", but it was not published until 1802. His inspiration was the legend of a pirate who removed a bell on Inchcape placed there by the Abbot of Arbroath to warn mariners of the reef. The poem was reprinted in the ""Edinburgh Annual Register"" for 1810, published in 1812. In a letter to his maternal uncle Herbert Hill, dated 16 August 1812, Southey tells how ""The Inchcape Rock"" had ""lain uncorrected among my papers for the last ten years"", until"
"Curse of Kehama The Curse of Kehama is an 1810 epic poem composed by Robert Southey. The origins of the poem can be traced to Southey's schoolboy days when he suffered from insomnia, along with his memories of a dark and mysterious schoolmate that later formed the basis for one of the poem's villains. The poem was started in 1802 following the publication of Southey's epic ""Thalaba the Destroyer"". After giving up on the poem for a few years, he returned to it after prompting by the poet Walter Savage Landor encouraged him to complete his work. When it was"
"The Snow Queen ""The Snow Queen"" () is an original fairy tale written by Danish author Hans Christian Andersen. The tale was first published 21 December 1844 in ""New Fairy Tales. First Volume. Second Collection. 1845."" () The story centres on the struggle between good and evil as experienced by Gerda and her friend, Kai. The story is one of Andersen's longest and most highly acclaimed stories. It is regularly included in selected tales and collections of his work and is frequently reprinted in illustrated storybook editions for children. ""The Snow Queen"" is a tale told in seven 'stories' ():"
"The Three Fairies ""The Three Fairies"" is an Italian literary fairy tale written by Giambattista Basile in his 1634 work, the ""Pentamerone"". It is Aarne-Thompson tale 480, the kind and the unkind girls, and appears to stem from an oral source. Others of this type include ""Diamonds and Toads"", ""Shita-kiri Suzume"", ""Mother Hulda"", ""The Three Heads in the Well"", ""Father Frost"", ""The Three Little Men in the Wood"", ""The Enchanted Wreath"", ""The Old Witch"", and ""The Two Caskets"". Another literary variant is ""Aurore and Aimée"". In this tale, like many others of this type, the heroine descends into another world"
"Madoc (poem) Madoc is an 1805 epic poem composed by Robert Southey. It is based on the legend of Madoc, a supposed Welsh prince who fled internecine conflict and sailed to America in the 12th century. The origins of the poem can be traced to Southey's schoolboy days when he completed a prose version of Madoc's story. By the time Southey was in his twenties, he began to devote himself to working on the poem in hopes that he could sell it to raise money to fulfill his ambitions to start a new life in America, where he hoped to"
"Southey (1774–1843) and journalist Thomas de Quincey (1785–1859). However, at the time Walter Scott (1771–1832) was the most famous poet. Scott achieved immediate success with his long narrative poem ""The Lay of the Last Minstrel"" in 1805, followed by the full epic poem ""Marmion"" in 1808. Both were set in the distant Scottish past. The early Romantic poets brought a new emotionalism and introspection, and their emergence is marked by the first romantic manifesto in English literature, the ""Preface"" to ""Lyrical Ballads"" (1798). In it Wordsworth discusses what he sees as the elements of a new type of poetry, one"
"The Faerie Queene The Faerie Queene is an English epic poem by Edmund Spenser. Books I to III were first published in 1590, and then republished in 1596 together with books IV to VI. ""The Faerie Queene"" is notable for its form: it is one of the longest poems in the English language as well as the origin of the verse form known as the Spenserian stanza. On a literal level, the poem follows several knights as a means to examine different virtues, and though the text is primarily an allegorical work, it can be read on several levels of"
"The Tale of the Dead Princess and the Seven Knights The Tale of the Dead Princess and the Seven Knights (, literally: ""The Tale of the Dead Tsarevna and of the Seven Bogatyrs"") is an 1833 poem by Aleksandr Pushkin telling a fairy tale of Prince Yelsei's search for his love, the Tsarevna, who has been cast out by her stepmother. While the story resembles the ""Little Snow White"" tale from the ""Grimm's Fairy Tales"", it is based around national Russian folklore, same as other Pushkin's fairy tales in verse inspired by the childhood tales told by his nurse Arina"
"Snow Queen on Lind after she rejected him as a suitor. The story has been adapted into numerous stage plays and musicals, notably including: ""The Snow Queen"" by Missoula children's theatre in several locations including Estevan and Humboldt. Literature Media The Snow Queen ""The Snow Queen"" () is an original fairy tale written by Danish author Hans Christian Andersen. The tale was first published 21 December 1844 in ""New Fairy Tales. First Volume. Second Collection. 1845."" () The story centres on the struggle between good and evil as experienced by Gerda and her friend, Kai. The story is one of"
"Children; with some Lessons in Latin in Easy Rhyme"". These were originally written for the instruction of her own children, and became very popular. In 1837, the Coleridges moved to Chester Place, Regent's Park; and in the same year appeared ""Phantasmion, a Fairy Tale"", Sara Coleridge's longest original work, described by critic Mike Ashley as """"the first fairytale novel written in English"""". Historian of literature Dennis Butts describes ""Phantasmion"" as a """"remarkable pioneering fantasy"""" and """"an extraordinary monument to her talent"""". The songs in ""Phantasmion"" were much admired at the time by Leigh Hunt and other critics. Some of them,"
"Origin of the Snow White tale ""Snow White"" is a German fairy tale known across much of Europe and is today one of the most famous fairy tales worldwide. The Brothers Grimm published it in 1812 in the first edition of their collection ""Grimms' Fairy Tales"". It was titled in (in modern orthography ""Schneewittchen"") and numbered as Tale 53. The Grimms completed their final revision of the story in 1854. It has generally been regarded as purely a tale of fiction; however, recent research suggests that the story may have been inspired from a real story. Scholar Graham Anderson compares"
"cook explains how he had saved Sun and Moon. Talia and the king marry, and the cook is rewarded with the title of royal chamberlain. The last line of the fairy tale – its moral – is as follows: """"He who has luck may go to bed, And bliss will rain upon his head."""" Sun, Moon, and Talia Sun, Moon, and Talia () is an Italian literary fairy tale written by Giambattista Basile in his 1634 work, the ""Pentamerone"". Charles Perrault retold this fairy tale in 1697 as ""The Sleeping Beauty"" and also the Brothers Grimm in 1812 as ""Little"
"Sun, Moon, and Talia Sun, Moon, and Talia () is an Italian literary fairy tale written by Giambattista Basile in his 1634 work, the ""Pentamerone"". Charles Perrault retold this fairy tale in 1697 as ""The Sleeping Beauty"" and also the Brothers Grimm in 1812 as ""Little Briar Rose"". It is Aarne-Thompson type 410; other tales of this type include ""The Glass Coffin"" and ""The Young Slave"". After the birth of a great lord's daughter Talia, wise men and astrologers cast the child's horoscope and predicted that Talia would be endangered by a splinter of flax. To protect his daughter, the"
"the volume and probably inserted by the publisher. In the introduction to a subsequent edition, Follen denied any hand in the poem's composition, but took it under her wing and claimed ownership as the poem passed through various reprints. The poem was first published in the United States in 1843 in Follen's ""New Nursery Songs for All Good Children"". An 1856 American reprint was subtitled ""A Cat's Tale, with Additions"". Cuthbert Bede (pen name of Edward Bradley) published a prose version in his ""Fairy Fables"" (1857). In 1858 R. M. Ballantyne published his prose version that elaborated Follen's poem in"
"original music was composed by Benjamin Britten. Childe Rowland ""Childe Rowland"" is a fairy tale, the most popular version written by Joseph Jacobs in his ""English Fairy Tales"", published in 1890. It was based on a Scottish ballad, which is why the text alternates between prose and rhyming stanzas. Joseph Jacobs called the King of Elfland's palace ""the Dark Tower"" in his version, an addition he made that was not part of the original ballad. This harks to Shakespeare's ""King Lear"" and Robert Browning's poem ""Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came,"" but neither of those references have any relation"
"Joan of Arc (poem) Joan of Arc is a 1796 epic poem composed by Robert Southey. The idea for the story came from a discussion between Southey and Grosvenor Bedford, when Southey realised that the story would be suitable for an epic. The subject further appealed to Southey because the events of the French Revolution were concurrent to the writing of the poem and would serve as a parallel to current events. Eventually, Samuel Taylor Coleridge helped rewrite parts of the poem for a 1798 edition. Later editions removed Coleridge's additions along with other changes. The poem is divided into"
"first produced in 1835. A short story, 'Ginevra or The Old Oak Chest: A Christmas Story' by Susan E Wallace published in 1887 and another short story ""The Romance of Certain Old Clothes"" by Henry James published in 1868. The song is also played in Thomas Hardy's ""A Laodicean"", after the scene involving the capture of George Somerset's handkerchief from the tower. Kate Mosse reinterpreted the story in her 2013 short story collection ""The Mistletoe Bride and Other Haunting Tales"". Film versions of the story include a 1904 production by the Clarendon Film Company, directed by Percy Stow; a 1923"
"""Nymphidia"". In Poole's work ""Parnassus"", Mab is described as the Queen of the Fairies and consort to Oberon, Emperor of the Fairies. ""Queen Mab"" is a 1750 pantomime by actor Henry Woodward. ""Queen Mab: A Philosophical Poem"" (1813) is the title of the first large poetic work written by the famous English Romantic poet, Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822). Herman Melville's epic American novel ""Moby Dick"" (1851) includes a chapter called ""Queen Mab"". The 31st chapter of Melville's work is entitled such because it describes a dream by Captain Ahab's second mate, Stubb. In J. M. Barrie's ""The Little White Bird"""