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The Lamb Cycle
What the Great English Poets Would Have Written About Mary and Her Lamb (Had They Thought of It First)
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The Lamb Cycle
What the Great English Poets Would Have Written About Mary and Her Lamb (Had They Thought of It First)
About this book
The rhyme "Mary Had a Little Lamb" told in the style—and substance—of the great English poets from Edmund Spenser to Stevie Smith.
In The Lamb Cycle, David R. Ewbank achieves the unthinkable—he writes so convincingly in the style of the great English poets that one could be lulled into thinking that Shakespeare himself was inspired to muse upon the subject of "Mary Had a Little Lamb." Ewbank captures not only the style of each of the poets he chooses, but also their preoccupations and subject matter. So D.H. Lawrence's Mary longs for her lamb as any woman longing for her lover, whilst T.S. Eliot's Mary is recollected by an old man looking back on his life. Alexander Pope writes an "An Essay on Lambs," and Tennyson's lotus eaters become "The Clover Eater." Brilliantly written, sophisticated, and laugh-out-loud funny, these poems, enhanced by Kate Feiffer's charming illustrations, will enchant anyone who has ever read an English poem.
In The Lamb Cycle, David R. Ewbank achieves the unthinkable—he writes so convincingly in the style of the great English poets that one could be lulled into thinking that Shakespeare himself was inspired to muse upon the subject of "Mary Had a Little Lamb." Ewbank captures not only the style of each of the poets he chooses, but also their preoccupations and subject matter. So D.H. Lawrence's Mary longs for her lamb as any woman longing for her lover, whilst T.S. Eliot's Mary is recollected by an old man looking back on his life. Alexander Pope writes an "An Essay on Lambs," and Tennyson's lotus eaters become "The Clover Eater." Brilliantly written, sophisticated, and laugh-out-loud funny, these poems, enhanced by Kate Feiffer's charming illustrations, will enchant anyone who has ever read an English poem.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- Mary Had a Little Lamb
- The Silly Lambe
- Sonnet 155
- Temper Rising
- Academia Lost
- The School Steps
- To Mary, To Get Out on Time
- Annus Horribilis
- An Essay on Lambs
- The Vanity of Ovine Hubris
- The Book of Hell
- Expulsion and Result
- The Crime of the Urchin Mary
- Why do I hate this horrid place
- The Revolt of a Lamb
- Ode to Cologne
- My Man, Fred
- The Clover-Eater
- Friedrich Schlafbewirken’s Excogitation
- The Deserted Lamb
- Mistress Mary
- Hymn to the Lamb
- A Shropshire Lamb
- The Lambkin: To Lady Mary
- Lamby
- At School
- Loco Lamb and the Schoolman
- Lamb
- Little Gaffer
- A Refusal to Bleat and Moan about Being Expelled from School
- The Anxiety of Age
- School Going
- Second Thoughts about Mary
- Author’s Note
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author and Illustrator