Eminent poet Edmund Spenser (1552/1553 – 1599) lived during the Elizabethan era. His most famous work is The Faerie Queene, an epic poem with an allegorical
Category: Anecdotes
Fred Allen’s “Apology” Letter
In 1940, comedian Fred Allen (1894 – 1956), in his radio program, talked about a time he checked into a hotel in Philadelphia where the
Gleanings from the Past #3
A Convoluted Testimony A witness being called to give evidence in a court of Connecticut, respecting the loss of a shirt, gave the following—”Mother said,
A Dollar a Word
After Rudyard Kipling won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1907, a newspaper correspondent reported that Kipling was earning one dollar a word. When a
Questions for Questions
One time, when Harold Pinter finished performing is play The Birthday Party, an audience member gave him the following note: Can you tell me the
An Eye for Celebrities
Valerie Eliot, wife of poet T. S. Eliot, wrote the following letter to the London Times dated February 10, 1970: Sir, My husband, T.S. Eliot,
