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"Little Boy Blue" is a poem by Eugene Field about the death of a child, a sentimental but beloved theme in 19th-century poetry. Contrary to popular belief, the poem is not about the death of Field's son, who died several years after its publication. Field once admitted that the words "Little Boy Blue" occurred to him when he needed a rhyme for ...
Penguin Book of Contemporary Verse (1918–1960) [ edit ] The Penguin Book of Contemporary Verse is a poetry anthology first published in 1950, and edited by Kenneth Allott , generally restricted to British poets ( T. S. Eliot , Sylvia Plath and some Irish poets were included).
In 1976 he compiled The Complete Book of Australian Folklore, a book that has been in print almost continuously ever since. [5] He also edited and compiled The Second Penguin Australian Songbook. [5] Scott completed 51 books of prose and poetry, [3] and is renowned as a collector and writer of Australian folk stories and songs. [3]
It is commonly known as the fairy penguin, little blue penguin, or blue penguin, owing to its slate-blue plumage and is also known by its Māori name kororā. It is a marine neritic species that dives for food throughout the day and returns to burrows on the shore at dusk, making it the only nocturnal penguin species on land.
"Footprints," also known as "Footprints in the Sand," is a popular modern allegorical Christian poem. It describes a person who sees two pairs of footprints in the sand, one of which belonged to God and another to themselves. At some points the two pairs of footprints dwindle to one; it is explained that this is where God carried the protagonist.
The Penguin Book of Contemporary British Poetry is a poetry anthology edited by Blake Morrison and Andrew Motion, and published in 1982 by Penguin Books. Shortly after its publication, Morrison acknowledged the criticisms made towards the anthology, including that it was "merely 'fashionable'" and the "committee English" of its introduction. [ 1 ]
The Mersey Sound is number 10 in a series of slim paperbacks originally published in the 1960s by Penguin in a series called Penguin Modern Poets. Each book assembled work by three compatible poets. Number 6, for example, contained poems by George MacBeth, Edward Lucie-Smith and Jack Clemo. The other books in the series were not given a ...
Brian Wilson Aldiss OBE (/ ˈ ɔː l d ɪ s /; 18 August 1925 – 19 August 2017) was an English writer, artist and anthology editor, best known for science fiction novels and short stories.