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Scott O'Grady's book Return With Honor, which has a full transcript of the poem. One Small Step, a children's novel by Philip Kerr, reprints the poem in full before the Author's Note. A reporter in the film First Man is heard quoting the poem ('slipped the surly bonds of Earth') while describing the Gemini 8 mission that Neil Armstrong took ...
John Gay (30 June 1685 – 4 December 1732) was an English poet and dramatist and member of the Scriblerus Club. [2] He is best remembered for The Beggar's Opera (1728), a ballad opera . [ 3 ] The characters, including Captain Macheath and Polly Peachum, became household names.
Illustration for the poem by Lewis Carroll. Like most poems in Alice, the poem is a parody of a poem then well-known to children, Robert Southey's didactic poem "The Old Man's Comforts and How He Gained Them", originally published in 1799. Like the other poems parodied by Lewis Carroll in Alice, this original poem is now mostly forgotten, and ...
The 2017 John Lewis Christmas advert debunked the myth that children must be fearful of the monster under the bed, as a child develops a close bond with a friendly imaginary monster Moz who takes ...
Archibald Ormsby-Gore, better known as Archie, was the teddy-bear of English poet laureate John Betjeman. Together with a toy elephant known as Jumbo , he was a lifelong companion of Betjeman's. Betjeman brought his bear with him when he went to university at Oxford in the 1920s, and as a result Archie became the model for Aloysius , Sebastian ...
Around the Boree Log and Other Verses is a collection of poems by Australian writer John O'Brien, published by Angus and Robertson in 1921. [1]The collection contains 46 poems which were published in a variety of original publications, with some being published here for the first time.
Other bird campaigns did have fun with the presence of Oliver, however, with one putting up multiple billboards with the message: “Dear John, Don’t disrupt the pecking order.”
John Frederick Freeman (29 January 1880 – 23 September 1929) was an English poet and essayist, who gave up a successful career in insurance to write full-time. He was born in London , and started as an office boy aged 13.