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The Highwayman" is a romantic ballad and narrative poem written by Alfred Noyes, first published in the August 1906 issue [1] of Blackwood's Magazine, based in Edinburgh, Scotland. The following year it was included in Noyes' collection, Forty Singing Seamen and Other Poems , becoming an immediate success.
In a nationwide poll conducted by the BBC in 1995 to find Britain's favourite poem, "The Highwayman" was voted the nation's 15th favourite poem. [5] This poem was also the inspiration for name of the American folk music revival group, The Highwaymen. [8]
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The Highwayman is a 1951 American historical adventure film directed by Lesley Selander and starring Philip Friend, Wanda Hendrix and Cecil Kellaway. The film was shot in Cinecolor and distributed by Allied Artists, the prestige subsidiary of Monogram Pictures. It was based on the poem of the same name by Alfred Noyes.
On these records, Ochs was accompanied only by an acoustic guitar. The albums contain many of Ochs's topical songs, such as "Too Many Martyrs", "I Ain't Marching Anymore", and "Draft Dodger Rag"; and some musical reinterpretation of older poetry, such as "The Highwayman" (poem by Alfred Noyes) and "The Bells" (poem by Edgar Allan Poe).
Dick Turpin's Ride (reissued as The Lady and the Bandit) is a 1951 American adventure film directed by Ralph Murphy and starring Louis Hayward. [1] It follows the career of the eighteenth century highwayman Dick Turpin.
Edward Lear's poem "The Pelican Chorus" was adapted into the song "Pelicans We" by Cosmo Sheldrake. Johnny Cash's "Drink to Me Only with Thine Eyes," from Ben Jonson's poem "Song: To Celia." Anna Dennis and Voice of Music's "Gather Ye Rosebuds While Ye May," from Robert Herrick's poem "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time."