What is Milton’s companion work to “L’Allegro”?
“II Penseroso,” written in 1632 is Milton’s companion work to “L’Allegro”.
“II Penseroso,” written in 1632 is Milton’s companion work to “L’Allegro”.
The Greek ships are enumerated in Book II of Homer’s Iliad.
George Orwell’s real name was Eric Arthur Blair.
The rest of the nursery rhyme from which Ken Kesey took the title for his novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest is: Wire, briar, limber, lock, Three geese in a flock, One flew East, one flew West, One flew over the cuckoo’s nest.
“Laugh, and the world laughs with you,/ Weep, and you weep alone” are the opening lines of the poem “Solitude” by Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1855-1919).
Rhett Butler’s parting shot to Scarlett O’Hara in Margaret Mitchell’s Gone With the Wind is “My dear, I don’t give a damn.” In the 1939 movie, it became, “Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn.”
Mrs. Dalloway’s first name is Clarissa. Virginia Woolf’s novel Mrs. Dalloway was published in 1925.