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  2. Ernest Thayer - Wikipedia

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    Ernest Lawrence Thayer (/ ˈ θ eɪ ər /; August 14, 1863 – August 21, 1940) was an American writer and poet who wrote the poem "Casey" (or "Casey at the Bat"), which is "the single most famous baseball poem ever written" according to the Baseball Almanac, [1] and "the nation’s best-known piece of comic verse—a ballad that began a native legend as colorful and permanent as that of ...

  3. Persona poetry - Wikipedia

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    Rather than the poem representing the voice of the author, as in much lyric poetry, the speaker in Pound's persona poems is a made-up character with whom Pound did not completely identify. This allowed Pound to be satiric, even sarcastic, not only about the subject of the poems but about their speaker, although he sometimes appears to share the ...

  4. List of films based on poems - Wikipedia

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    Poem Film(s) "Casey at the Bat: A Ballad of the Republic, Sung in the Year 1888" (1888), Ernest Thayer: Casey at the Bat (1916) Casey at the Bat (1927) Make Mine Music (1946) "The Charge of the Light Brigade" (1854), Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Balaclava (1928) The Charge of the Light Brigade (1912) The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936)

  5. 10 Actors Who Had Parts Written For Them, And 10 Who ... - AOL

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    A world without Niles Crane? Unthinkable.View Entire Post ›

  6. Edgar Allan Poe in television and film - Wikipedia

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    In the 1909 novel The Phantom of the Opera, as well as subsequent film and stage adaptations, the title character appears disguised as The Red Death at a ball.; In Chapter 4 of the 1940 movie serial Drums of Fu Manchu, "The Pendulum of Doom", the hero Allan Parker is trapped in a "Pit and the Pendulum" peril (Fu Manchu actually states that the Poe story inspired this torture device).

  7. The Song of Hiawatha - Wikipedia

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    The connection is made plain by the scenes being introduced by a mock-solemn intonation of lines from the poem. The most famous was the 1937 Silly Symphony Little Hiawatha , whose hero is a small boy whose pants keep falling down. [ 88 ]

  8. 35 Life-Changing Sentences That Touched People To Their Soul

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    Image credits: Time_Teaching6500 #8. My father in law has had 5 surgeries in the last 2 years and it has been a long recovery and because of that I have been doing my best to help out by doing ...

  9. A scholar discovers stories and poems possibly written by ...

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    Max Chapnick, a postdoctoral teaching associate at Northeastern University, believes he found about 20 stories and poems written by Louisa May Alcott under her own name as well as pseudonyms for ...