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"The King's Breakfast" is a poem by A. A. Milne, first published in When We Were Very Young (1924). It is about "a monarch who sulks when the cow refuses to provide milk." [1] Damon Young calls it a "witty portrait of moping". [1] The poem was made into a film in 1963. The poem features an Alderney cow, a breed which became extinct in the 1940s.
The poem was first published in the first issue of Burgess's magazine The Lark in May 1895 and became his most widely known work. [2] It originally had the longer title "The Purple Cow's projected feast/Reflections on a Mythic Beast/Who's Quite Remarkable, at Least". [ 3 ]
In a National Poetry Day poll in 2005, Mitchell's poem "Human Beings" was voted the one most people would like to see launched into space. [3] In 2002, he was nominated, semi-seriously, as Britain's "Shadow Poet Laureate". [4] Mitchell was for some years poetry editor of the New Statesman, and was the first to publish an interview with the ...
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Mitchell has written four books, Waddie's Whole Load, A Cowboy's Night Before Christmas, Lone Driftin' Rider and a 2015 compilation One Hundred Poems. He was chosen to write a poem describing the West for the 2002 Winter Olympics' Olympic Arts Festival. [2] He is a co-founder of the National Cowboy Poetry Gathering. [3]
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Varney was born in Lexington, Kentucky, [5] the son of Nancy Louise (née Howard; 1913–1994), and James Albert Varney Sr. (1910–1985). As a child, he displayed the ability to memorize long poems and significant portions of the material from books, which he used to entertain family and friends.