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James Bartley (1870–1909) is the central figure in a late nineteenth-century story according to which he was swallowed whole by a sperm whale. He was found still living days later in the stomach of the whale, which was dead from harpooning. The story originated of an anonymous form, began to appear in American newspapers.
John Taylor was born in the parish of St. Ewen's, near South Gate, Gloucester on 24 August 1578. [1]His parentage is unknown, as the parish registers did not survive the Civil War.
The whale became so famous that the doggerel poet William Topaz McGonagall (1825–1902) wrote a notably bad poem, [A] [B] "The Famous Tay Whale", about it. [7] Two of the verses run: And my opinion is that God sent the whale in time of need, No matter what other people may think or what is their creed; I know fishermen in general are often ...
'In the Whale,' the story of Provincetown lobster diver Michael Packard's life and his 30 seconds in a humpback's mouth, continues to sell out shows.
And Jack was swept into the sea and swallowed by a whale. CHORUS Oh, the whale went straight for Baffin Bay, 'bout ninety knots an hour, And every time he'd blow a spray he'd send it in a shower; Oh, now, says Jack unto himself, I must see what he's about, He caught the whale all by the tail and turned him inside out. CHORUS
John Cotton (17 December 1801 – 14 December 1849) was a British poet, ornithological writer and artist, who became an early pastoral settler in Victoria, Australia. Cotton was born in Balham, London and educated in Richmond .
The poet and essayist Hugh MacDiarmid wrote of the Tay Whale that "what this [the verses about John Wood and the Tay Whale] amounts to, of course, is simply what quite uneducated and stupid people—the two adjectives by no means necessarily go together, for many uneducated people have great vitality and a raciness of utterance altogether ...
The libretto includes the words of an encyclopaedia entry describing certain facts about the whale, and this is contrasted with themes within the music which attempt to portray the reality of the whale itself, whose existence is greater than the sum of all the facts about it. The Whale has eight sections: I. Documentary, II. Melodrama and ...