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The lamb cycle : what the great English poets would have written about Mary and her lamb (had they thought of it first) / David R. Ewbank ; illustrations by Kate Feiffer.
Van Pelt Library PS3605.W36 L36 2023
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ewbank, David, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mother Goose--Parodies, imitations, etc.
- Mother Goose.
- English literature--Adaptations.
- English literature.
- Lambs--Poetry.
- Lambs.
- Parodies.
- Genre:
- Adaptations.
- Parodies, imitations, etc.
- Parodies (Literature)
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 64 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Waltham, Massachusetts : Brandeis University Press, [2023]
- Summary:
- "The rhyme "Mary Had A Little Lamb" told in the style-and substance-of the great English poets from Edmund Spenser to Stevie Smith"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: Mary Had a Little Lamb / Mother Goose
- The Silly Lambe / Edmund Spenser
- Sonnet 155 / William Shakespeare
- Temper Rising / John Donne
- Academia Lost / John Milton
- The School Steps / George Herbert
- To Mary, To Get Out on Time / Robert Herrick
- Annus Horribilis / John Dryden
- An Essay on Lambs / Alexander Pope
- The Vanity of Ovine Hubris / Samuel Johnson
- The Book of Hell / William Blake
- Expulsion and Result / William Wordsworth
- The Crime of the Urchin Mary / Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Why do I hate this horrid place / Emily Bronte
- The Revolt of a Lamb / Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Ode to Cologne / John Keats
- My Man, Fred / Lord Byron
- The Clover-Eater / Lord Tennyson
- Friedrich Schlafbewirken's Excogitation / Robert Browning
- The Deserted Lamb / Matthew Arnold
- Mistress Mary / Dante Gabriel Rossetti
- Hymn to the Lamb / Algernon Charles Swinburne
- A Shropshire Lamb / A. E. Housman
- The Lambkin: To Lady Mary / Gerard Manley Hopkins
- Lamby / Rudyard Kipling
- At School / Thomas Hardy
- Loco Lamb and the Schoolman / William Butler Yeats
- Lamb / D. H. Lawrence
- Little Gaffer / T. S. Eliot
- A Refusal to Bleat and Moan about Being Expelled from School / Dylan Thomas
- The Anxiety of Age / W. H. Auden
- School Going / Philip Larkin
- Second Thoughts about Mary / Stevie Smith.
- ISBN:
- 9781684581450
- 1684581451
- OCLC:
- 1343161769
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