What poet wrote “good fences make good neighbors”?
Robert Frost wrote “good fences make good neighbors” in the 1914 poem “Mending Wall”:
“And he likes having thought of it so well/He says again, ‘Good fences make good neighbors.’ “
Robert Frost wrote “good fences make good neighbors” in the 1914 poem “Mending Wall”:
“And he likes having thought of it so well/He says again, ‘Good fences make good neighbors.’ “
The people of Blefuscu, an island northeast of Lilliput, were the enemies of the Lilliputians. The people there were as tiny and mean-spirited as the Lilliputians. Swift meant Blefuscu to represent France, while Lilliput represented England.
The rainbow in Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow is the arc a rocket makes from launch to target. The novel is set in World War II Europe at the time German V-2 rockets were falling on London.
Gloriana was the name of the Faerie Queene in Spenser’s The Faerie Queene (1590-96).
The German-born author of Siddhartha (1922) and Steppenwolf (1927) Hermann Hesse became a Swiss citizen at the outbreak of World War I. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1946.
The Fugitives and Agrarians were a group of writers associated with Vanderbilt University in Nashville in the 1920s and 1930s. The most famous of the group were Robert Penn Warren, John Crowe Ransom, Allen Tate, and Donald Davidson.
The Augean stables that Hercules had to clean held 3,000 cattle and had not been cleaned in thirty years. Cleaning them was the sixth of Hercules’ seven labors. Hercules’ story was told by Ovid (43 B.c.-17 A.D.) and Apollodorus (first-second century A . D. ).