Matthew Arnold’s “Dover Beach” (c. 1851) ends with: “And we are here as on a darkling plain/Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight,/Where ignorant armies clash by night”.
In the Italian poem Orlando Furioso by Ariosto (1532), the knight Orlando goes crazy with rage when he learns that Angelica, the woman he loves, has married someone else. Orlando runs around naked, destroying everything in sight. By the poem’s end, he is cured.
Archibald Macleish (1892-1982) said, “A poem should not mean/But be” in Ars Poetica.
The mixture of Russian with American and British slang in A Clockwork Orange is called “Nadsat.”
Written in 1950, when he was thirty, Isaac Asimov’s first book was Pebble in the Sky. The Russian-born writer has over 400 books to his credit, including science fiction, science nonfiction, mystery, textbooks, and a guide to Shakespeare.
Edward Bellamy looking backward from the year 2000 in Looking Backward.
These lines from Section 27, Stanza 4 of Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s poem In Memoriam lament the loss of Tennyson’s close friend Arthur Hallam, who died at twenty-two.