I read this after listening to "If I Die Young", by the Band Perry. I read both versions, but they are over all very similar. I love the way this is written, and it's so short, most anyone can easily finish it in a matter of minutes, but it really sits with you for a while.
bookshelves: autumn-2010, poetry, published-1906 Read on October 06, 2010 Nation's Favourite Poems: 'The Highwayman' by Alfred Noyes features in a 1996 nationwide poll compilation.From wiki - First published in the August 1906 issue of Blackwood's Magazine. The following year, it was included in...
This is the book that kinda started it all for me, as far as my memory allows that is. I can remember my dad reading me this in bed, using the drama of his voice to heighten the experience, and seeing the stark ink drawings---particularly of Grendal's dismembered arm---and just being in a state of d...
Alongside Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven, Alfred Tennyson's The Lady of Shalott stands as one of the more fascinating works of poetry from the 1800s. Aesthetically it is a work of great and simply beauty, therefore providing evidence that language in a poetic simplicity can provide some of the greatest...
Trying to read all 1001 Children's Books You Must Read Before You Grow Up can be a frustrating experience. It doesn't sound like a hard challenge, does it? After all, these are children's books. Right?But what about books like Joseph's Yard? It's described as a classic 32-page children's picture boo...
No condoms in a modern story when the two participants only met the night before is something I don't find particularly realistic and it's become a bit of a turn off. But even if it wasn't, I'm a third of the way through the book and really quite despise one of the MCs.
1982I think I like it more as I get older, and see it quoted all over the place. The lines are lovely, the rhythm soothing, even if there's not much there. I think it's funny that Lancelot is described, but not The Lady.
5/9/11 ** It was good - not as compelling as the first in the series, Eagle of the Ninth, though. I never did figure out the character who had the Silver Branch. I did enjoy the two main characters. One thing odd, though was the perspective. Generally the character who is the main character and ...
As I am starting to write this review I am listening to "All Soul's Night" by Loreena McKennitt, which is fitting because she is the reason why I read this poem. I find it impossible to talk about this poem without talking about her. She's great; she's a bard.I first encountered her poem on the fi...
Nation's Favourite Poems: 'The Highwayman' by Alfred Noyes features in a 1996 nationwide poll compilation.From wiki - First published in the August 1906 issue of Blackwood's Magazine. The following year, it was included in Noyes' collection, Forty Singing Seamen and Other Poems. It was an immediate ...
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