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A. Milne's poem " In the dark ", in Now We Are Six, has been noted for its emulation of crib talk, a form of monologue word play used by infants to practice phonology, syntax and conversation skills
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. and Milne's
Christopher Robin Milne's stuffed bear, originally named " Edward ", was renamed " Winnie-the-Pooh " after a Canadian black bear named Winnie ( after Winnipeg ), which was used as a military mascot in World War I, and left to London Zoo during the war.
Christopher Robin Milne's own toys are now under glass in New York.
Several of Milne's children's poems were set to music by the composer Harold Fraser-Simson.
After Milne's death in 1956, his widow sold her rights to the Pooh characters to the Walt Disney Company, which has made many Pooh cartoon movies, a Disney Channel television show, as well as Pooh-related merchandise.
* Two People ( 1931 ) ( Inside jacket claims this is Milne's first attempt at a novel.
The 1963 film The King's Breakfast was based on Milne's poem of the same name.
A. Milne's profile at Just-Pooh. com
Shepard modelled Pooh not on the toy owned by Christopher Robin, Milne's son, but on " Growler ", a stuffed bear owned by his own son.
A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh stories, is cuddly and likable.
* October 14 – Alan Alexander Milne's book Winnie-the-Pooh is released.
A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh books and the Disney spin-offs
A. Milne's book The House at Pooh Corner.
Like other Pooh characters, Tigger is based on one of Christopher Robin Milne's stuffed animals.
Like most of the characters in Winnie-the-Pooh, Tigger was based on one of Christopher Robin Milne's stuffed animals, in this case a stuffed-toy tiger.
The first took place during the 1930s, triggered by Dingle's criticism of E. A. Milne's cosmological model and the associated theoretical methodology, which Dingle considered overly speculative and not based on empirical data.
A. Milne's The Red House Mystery ( 1922 ), by the author of the Winnie the Pooh books.
A. Milne's own son, Christopher Robin Milne, who in later life became unhappy with the use of his name, writing in one of a series of autobiographical works: " It seemed to me almost that my father had got where he was by climbing on my infant shoulders, that he had filched from me my good name and left me nothing but empty fame ".
He is somewhat less caustic and sarcastic in the Disney version than in Alan Milne's original stories.
. and poem
`` When I was in college '', I grinned, `` I remember a poem I had to read in my lit class.
His new poem, a love poem, told of a young husband leading his wife upstairs to the bedroom when the lights in the house have failed.
But with her hand poem again.
The values and talents which made the tile and the dome, the rug, the poem and the miniature, continue in certain social institutions which rise above the ordinary life of this city, as the great buildings rise above blank walls and dirty lanes.
One beat poet composes a poem, `` Lines On A Tijuana John '', which contains a few happy hints for survival.
He gives us an account of this in his lively and humorous poem, `` The Happy Artists ''.
This is brought out in the next to last chapter of the book, `` A Hero's Funeral '', written in the form of an impassioned prose poem.
He is proud of having Segovia for a friend and dedicated a poem to him titled `` The Guitar ''.
Carl says it is the greatest poem ever written to the guitar because he has never heard of any other poem to that subtle instrument.
Thus the student of literature may sometimes find it helpful to classify a poem or an essay as being in idea or in ideal content or subject matter typical or atypical of its period.
His whole objection, indeed, seems to rise out of a deep conviction that the poets do have great power to influence, but Plato seldom pays any attention to what might be called the poem itself.
The Chicago contingent of modern critics follow Aristotle so far in this direction that it is hard to see how they can compare one poem with another for the purpose of evaluation.
Then we have surviving at least one instance of a poem prepared for another, in Naturam non Pati Senium, and perhaps also the De Idea Platonica.
he usually draws some kind of comparison with the jazz tradition and the poem he is reading -- for instance, he draws the parallel between a poem he reads about an Oriental courtesan waiting for the man she loves, and who never comes, and the old blues chants of Ma Rainy and other Negro singers -- but usually the comparison is specious.
In his recent book, Hurray For Anything ( 1957 ), one of the most important short poems -- and it is the title poem for one of the long jazz arrangements -- is written for recital with jazz.
She was the pursuer as clearly as was Venus in Shakespeare's poem.
`` The hero of his next poem is Napoleon Bonaparte '', said Claire, with slightly overdone carelessness.
At the same time another child -- this one of Shelley's brain -- was given to the world: Alastor, a poem of pervading beauty in which the reader may gaze into the still depths of a fine mind's musings.
so that, while it usually is easy to recognize a poem by Hardy, it is difficult to date one.
About a quarter of Hardy's poems carry an appended date line, usually the year of completion, but sometimes inclusive years ( `` 1908 - 1910 '' ) or two separate dates when Hardy worked on the poem ( `` 1905 and 1926 '' ) or an approximate date ( `` During the War '' ).
There was one sterile period: only one poem is dated between 1872 and 1882 and, except for the poems written on the trip to Italy in 1887, very few from 1882 to 1890.
the former contains no poem dated before 1909 - 10 -- that is, no poem from a period covered by a previous volume -- and the latter has only a few such.
. and dark
She helped him with the dishes, then he brought more water in from the spring before it got dark.
They passed ranches that were framed dark gray against the black hills.
The clouds parted and hard gashes of sunlight swooped down to stain the earth with streaks of white and gold light so that the shadows of the running horses flowed like dark streams over the dazzling snow.
Mike passed through it and moved toward the dark mass of horses.
At first they were only feathers and dark indistinguishable faces and bodies, hunched over their horses' heads.
Above me a dark rider was whipping his pony with a quirt in an attempt to hurdle the bales.
His eyes were dark, fluid, fearful, and he gave a sigh as my knife went in.
`` You shouldn't be riding up here after dark, Judith '', he said quietly.
Although it was dark as usual I could see that the hall had only recently contained a great many people.
I felt certain that the director, like the afternoon clerk, seldom moved beyond the counter, that the hall, to them, was a jungle, a dark and unwelcome place.
They slid through the wicket in the big gate, ghosted across the dark ground.
It was a bold, dark castle of pine boughs that stood like a medieval fortress, eclipsing the sun and human time.
It was dark early, because of the storm.
Once the door was open, they crowded him inside the dark building.
Deputy Marshal Luke Harper still stood guard on the veranda, a forlorn, scarecrowish figure in the murky dark.
At the sight of Sally's happy face and carefree expression, Harmony's dark, brooding eyes quickly brightened with unshed tears.
Giving the other a dark look, he hauled his bronc around and trotted down off the street.
There was a feeling that this mission would be canceled like all the others and that this muddy wet dark world of combat would go on forever.
His face was dark as the sky above it as he stood on the wing and waited for his pilot.
The dark brown bombs hanging under each wing looked large and powerful.
To the west, the dark green hills of Leyte were lost in the clouds about halfway up their slopes.
Underneath him the sea was a dark and muddied gray.
Another car was coming, a tiny, dark shape on a far hill.
the car's far windshield panel turned into a silver web with a dark hole in the center.
Big and dark, a melting, golden brown.
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