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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.
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.
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.
This nightingale's song was pretty, but always the same. The real nightingale, no longer appreciated, flew out of the palace while no one was looking. The emperor placed the artificial nightingale at his bedside and banished the real nightingale for his desertion. The artificial bird sang the emperor to sleep each night until its cogs wore down.
Fairy tales are stories that range from those in folklore to more modern stories defined as literary fairy tales. Despite subtle differences in the categorizing of fairy tales, folklore, fables, myths, and legends, a modern definition of the literary fairy tale, as provided by Jens Tismar's monograph in German, [1] is a story that differs "from an oral folk tale" in that it is written by "a ...
The poem was also issued as a propaganda pamphlet under the title of The Frog, or the Low Countrey Nightingale during the Second Anglo-Dutch War. A similar claim was made, using the same fable, during the Franco-Dutch War of 1672-8 in a European pamphlet war encompassing publications in Latin, French, Spanish and Italian. [ 8 ]
The water-holding frog ascribed in modern times to Tiddalik is not found in the area of the legend's origin. It is likely that Tiddalik either refers to a different frog or is a memory of a time, 10,000 to 12,000 years ago, when the landscape was sufficiently different for the frog's range to extend to the South Gippsland.
The Widemouthed Frog: La grenouille à grande bouche: Francine Vidal: Elodie Nouhen: French: 2001: 3+ Tatu and Patu in Helsinki: Tatu ja Patu Helsingissä: Aino Havukainen and Sami Toivonen: Finish: 2003: 3+ Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! Mo Willems: English: 2003: 3+ Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Tale: Mo Willems: English: 2004: 3+ The ...