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The Frog and the Nightingale is a poem written by the Indian poet Vikram Seth in 1994. It is a fable about a frog and a nightingale. It was originally published by Evergreen Publications, and was later used by the Ministry of Education in India as a poem for school students. It has been in the Class 10th CBSE English text book.
Vikram Seth (born 20 June 1952) is an Indian novelist and poet. [2] He has written several novels and poetry books. He has won several awards such as Padma Shri, Sahitya Akademi Award, Pravasi Bharatiya Samman, WH Smith Literary Award and Crossword Book Award.
Beastly Tales from Here and There is a 1992 collection of ten fables in poetry written by Vikram Seth.In the introduction, Seth states,"The first two come from India, the next two from China, the next two from Greece, the next two from Ukraine.
One Morning in May" (Roud 140, Laws P14) is an English folk song which has been collected from traditional singers in England and the USA and has also been recorded by revival singers. Through the use of double-entendre , at least in the English versions, it tells of an encounter between a grenadier (or soldier) and a lady.
The Nightingale: A Conversation Poem is a poem written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge in April 1798. Originally included in the first edition of Lyrical Ballads , which he published with William Wordsworth , the poem disputes the traditional idea that nightingales are connected to the idea of melancholy.
With the help of a poor kitchen girl, the nightingale was found and brought to the emperor, where he sang so beautifully that the emperor was moved to tears and made him a guest at court. Soon after, the emperor received a new gift: a jeweled nightingale automaton that also sang. This nightingale's song was pretty, but always the same.
The first scene shows the Nightingale singing (or in this case, dancing) for the Emperor of China, who is pleased. In the music, the song of the nightingale is chromatic and swooping, it sounds free and natural, like the song of a bird. The second scene introduces the gift of the mechanical nightingale from the Emperor of Japan. All are ...
The Owl and Nightingale is written in two columns with some capital letters in blue and red but no illumination. Cotton Caligula A.IX: This manuscript contains 13 texts in English and Anglo Norman, most of which were probably bound together from the beginning despite Cotton’s method of organizing disparate manuscripts into collections.