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The Land of Little Rain has been published six times. The first publication was in 1903 by Houghton Mifflin.Subsequent publications include a 1950 abridged version with photographs by Ansel Adams (also by Houghton Mifflin), a 1974 illustrated version by E. Boyd Smith published by University of New Mexico Press, a 1988 edition with an introduction by Edward Abbey published as part of the ...
Mary Hunter Austin (September 9, 1868 – August 13, 1934) was an American writer. One of the early nature writers of the American Southwest, her classic The Land of Little Rain (1903) describes the fauna, flora, and people of the region between the High Sierra and the Mojave Desert of southern California.
"The Red Wheelbarrow" is a poem by American modernist poet William Carlos Williams.Originally published without a title, it was designated "XXII" in Williams' 1923 book Spring and All, a hybrid collection which incorporated alternating selections of free verse and prose.
Robert Loveman (April 11, 1864 – July 10, 1923) was an American poet. Born to a Jewish [1] family in Cleveland, Ohio, he was educated at the Dalton Academy in Dalton, Georgia, [2] later attending the University of Alabama where he received his A.M. Loveman lived with Friedman relatives at the Battle Friedman House while attending the University of Alabama. [3]
The melody is the same as "A Tisket, A Tasket" and has been associated with "What Are Little Boys Made Of?", [3] which has a different melody. The earliest known audio recording of the song was made in 1939 in New York by anthropologist and folklorist Herbert Halpert and is held in the Library of Congress . [ 4 ]
In Scotland the rain was bidden "Rain, rain, gang to Spain, And never come back again", while elsewhere various bribes were offered to make it go away. In Northumberland , for example, "When I brew, and when I bake, I'll gie you a little cake"; in Cornwall this was further specified as "You shall have a figgy cake, And a glass of brandy". [ 6 ]
A light rain continued falling for 10 or 15 minutes. People pulled on ponchos. There was most likely a napkin shortage, too, as fans used fistfuls of them to wipe down seats.
Title Page of a 1916 US edition. A Child's Garden of Verses is an 1885 volume of 64 poems for children by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson.It has been reprinted many times, often in illustrated versions, and is considered to be one of the most influential children's works of the 19th century. [2]