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Although this appears to be the first work of computer-generated literature, the structure is similar to the nineteenth-century parlour game Consequences, and the early twentieth-century surrealist game exquisite corpse. The Mad Libs books were conceived around the same time as Strachey wrote the love letter generator. [3]
"Dashing Away with the Smoothing Iron", a traditional English folk song written in the 19th century about a housewife carrying out one part of her linen chores each day of the week "Monday's Child", a traditional English rhyme mentioning the days of the week; Solomon Grundy (character), DC Comics character named after the rhyme
Between Silk and Cyanide by Leo Marks, HarperCollins (1998), ISBN 0-00-255944-7.Marks was the Head of Codes at SOE and this book is an account of his struggle to introduce better encryption for use by field agents. it contains more than 20 previously unpublished code poems by Marks, as well as descriptions of how they were used and by whom.
Due to its popularity, an illustrated gift edition of "Warning", first published by Souvenir Press Ltd in 1997, has now been reprinted 41 times. [8] "Warning" was included in the anthology Tools of the Trade: Poems for new doctors (Scottish Poetry Library, 2014) and a copy was given to all graduating doctors in Scotland in 2014. [9]
The first poems were published in the Scots Observer in the first half of 1890, and collected in Barrack-Room Ballads and Other Verses in 1892. Kipling later returned to the theme in a group of poems collected in The Seven Seas under the same title.
The Deluge tablet, carved in stone, of the Gilgamesh epic in Akkadian, circa 2nd millennium BC.. Poetry as an oral art form likely predates written text. [1] The earliest poetry is believed to have been recited or sung, employed as a way of remembering oral history, genealogy, and law.
Portrait plaque of U.S. president William McKinley, labelled "It is God's Way – Lead, Kindly Light", c. 1901. The largest mining disaster in the Durham Coalfield in England was at West Stanley Colliery, known locally as "The Burns Pit", when 168 men and boys lost their lives as the result of two underground explosions at 3:45pm on Tuesday 16 February 1909.
A clerihew (/ ˈ k l ɛr ɪ h j uː /) is a whimsical, four-line biographical poem of a type invented by Edmund Clerihew Bentley.The first line is the name of the poem's subject, usually a famous person, and the remainder puts the subject in an absurd light or reveals something unknown or spurious about the subject.