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King Alfred is an epic poem by John Fitchett (died 1838) and completed by Robert Roscoe, published in 1841 and 1842. [1] It is currently the longest English poem.
Story of the King of Spain. The Story of Conall Gulban (Part II) John, Son of the King of Bergen; The Master and his Man. The Praise of Goll; Osgar, the Son of Oisein; The Lay of Osgar; How the Een was Set Up; The Reason Why the Dallag (Dog-Fish) is Called the King's Fish; The Lay of Magnus Manus; The Song of the Smithy; Duan Na Ceardach ...
William Arthur Dunkerley (12 November 1852 – 23 January 1941) was an English journalist, novelist and poet.He was born in Manchester, spent a short time after his marriage in the US before moving to Ealing, West London, where he served as deacon and teacher at the Ealing Congregational Church from the 1880s.
This is a list of Reading Rainbow episodes, hosted by longtime executive producer LeVar Burton.The show premiered on PBS on July 11, 1983. [1] [2] The final episode aired on November 10, 2006, reruns ceased on August 28, 2009.
John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester (1 April 1647 – 26 July 1680 ) [4] was an English poet and courtier of King Charles II's Restoration court, who reacted against the "spiritual authoritarianism" of the Puritan era. [3]
Malory wrote the stories for and to his time. Any man hearing him knew every word and every reference. There was nothing obscure, he wrote the clear and common speech of his time and country. But that has changed—the words and references are no longer common property, for a new language has come into being. Malory did not write the stories.
The poem was reprinted in a book published the same year by Hodder & Stoughton. The poem prefaced the book, and lines and stanzas from the poem and from the speech given by the King, were used as epigraphs for the chapters describing the King's journey, and to caption some of the photographs. [9]
In the story "William Spoils the Party" – included in the 1925 collection Still William by Richmal Crompton – there is a reference to Mr. Bott (the self-made man in the village who has become wealthy through his invention of a digestive sauce). Crompton summarises him thus: "Mr. Bott was 'self-made' and considering all things had made quite ...