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Dirty Beasts is a 1983 collection of Roald Dahl poems about unsuspecting animals. [1] Intended to be a follow-up to Revolting Rhymes, the original Jonathan Cape edition was illustrated by Rosemary Fawcett. In 1984, a revised edition was published with illustrations by Quentin Blake.
John Franklin Hall (April 14, 1951 - March 14, 2023) was a professor of Classics and Ancient History at Brigham Young University. He was a student of R. E. A. Palmer.
Hall's poetry was first published when he was aged seventeen in the anthology, The Best Poems of 1938. [1] He subsequently wrote and published a trickle of short poems over seven further decades. Not a modernist, he was included in Dannie Abse 's 'reactionary anthology' Mavericks . [ 2 ]
The Roly-Poly Bird appears in a number of children's books by Roald Dahl – in two cases alongside Muggle-Wump the monkey.The Roly-Poly Bird is large, with fantastically coloured tailfeathers, and in Quentin Blake's illustrations has a blue body, a long neck and a crest on his head - rather like a peacock.
John Hall Wheelock (September 9, 1886 – March 22, 1978) was an American poet. He was a descendant of Eleazar Wheelock , founder of Dartmouth College . The son of William Efner Wheelock and Emily Charlotte Hall, [ 1 ] John Hall Wheelock was born in Far Rockaway, New York , and brought up in the neighborhood now occupied by Rockefeller Center .
Jane Kenyon (May 23, 1947 – April 22, 1995) was an American poet and translator.Her work is often characterized as simple, spare, and emotionally resonant. Kenyon was the second wife of poet, editor, and critic Donald Hall who made her the subject of many of his poems.
The Faber Book of Modern Verse was a poetry anthology, edited in its first edition by Michael Roberts, and published in 1936 by Faber and Faber.There was a second edition (1951) edited by Anne Ridler, and a third edition (1965) edited by Donald Hall.
The Minpins is a novel by Roald Dahl with illustrations by Patrick Benson. It was published in 1991, shortly after Dahl's death in November 1990, and is the author's final work of literature.