What does I.A. stand for in I.A. Richards (1893-1979)?
The first and middle names of the twentieth-century English critic I.A. Richards are Ivor Armstrong.
The first and middle names of the twentieth-century English critic I.A. Richards are Ivor Armstrong.
Andrew Marvell’s “To His Coy Mistress” (1681) is the source of the title of Robert Penn Warren’s World Enough and Time.
Anne Tyler’s first novel was If Morning Ever Comes (1965), written in her early twenties. Born in 1941, Tyler was respected by critics but did not become widely known until Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant in 1982.
The subtitle of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter (1850) was A Romance.
Natty Bumppo’s Indian sidekick was Chingachgook. He appears in Cooper’s The Deer-slayer (1841), The Last of the Mohicans (1826), The Pathfinder (1840), and The Pioneers (1823).
The Lord High Everything in W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan’s operetta The Mikado (1885) was first called “Pooh-Bah”.
Edward Stratemeyer, under the pseudonym Franklin W. Dixon created the Hardy Boys.