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20.11.2008


Parroting Parts

Translator and composer David W. Solomons brings to my attention a parody of "Naming of Parts" by E.O. Parrott: "Mending of Fuses." David has set the poem to music.
Tonight we shall have the mending of fuses.
Yesterday we had cleaning of wastepipes
And tomorrow morning we shall have horrors
          we dare not imagine
But tonight we have mending of fuses.
Parrott is the editor of several humorous collections, including Imitations of Immortality: A Book of Literary Parodies, The Penguin Book of Limericks, and The Dogsbody Papers: Or 1066 and All This.

David W. Solomons' latest CD is a collaboration with Lorin Nelson called Wildlife in the Nursery.

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What is Henry Reed's first name?

1349. Grigson, Geoffrey, ed. The Concise Encyclopaedia of Modern World Literature. New York: Hawthorn Books, 1963.
Reed is listed among the contributors to this reference work.



1st Lesson:

Reed, Henry (1914-1986). Born: Birmingham, England, 22 February 1914; died: London, 8 December 1986.

Education: MA, University of Birmingham, 1936. Served: RAOC, 1941-42; Foreign Office, GC&CS, 1942-1945. Freelance writer: BBC Features Department, 1945-1980.

Author of: A Map of Verona: Poems (1946)
The Novel Since 1939 (1946)
Moby Dick: A Play for Radio from Herman Melville's Novel (1947)
Lessons of the War (1970)
Hilda Tablet and Others: Four Pieces for Radio (1971)
The Streets of Pompeii and Other Plays for Radio (1971)
Collected Poems (1991, 2007)
The Auction Sale (2006)


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