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    This page is for you readers who are interested in learning more about the poems, books and songs mentioned in the books of M.E. Kerr. If you think of a reference that isn't mentioned here, please e-mail the Webmaster. Many thanks to MEK for her input!

In alphabetical order by book title, here are the poetry/song/book references followed by web references:

Deliver Us From Evie

(p. 55) SONG:  They Don't Call Me Pike written by MEK for book; attributed to Biker Pike

(p. 46, p. 98) HYMN:  "Tick!" Said the Clock  revived by MEK for book
(p. 140) HYMN:  We'll Never Say Goodbye revived by MEK for book

Dinky Hocker Shoots Smack

(p. 57) POEM: Lesbos by Sylvia Plath from Collected Poems,1965
http://www.geocities.com/Wellesley/2276/lesbos.html
The Complete List of Sylvia Plath Links
 http://www.geocities.com/~emily777/PlathLinks.html
Lucy's Sylvia Plath Page
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Delphi/1619/
Featured Author: Sylvia Plath: With News and Reviews From the Archives of The New YorkTimes
http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/11/05/specials/plath.html

p. 21 of paperback,  BOOK/TOPIC: THE ELEPHANT MAN
(Thanks to Robin Thompson for asking about it and suggesting the above link!)
www.elephant-house.fsnet.co.uk/newhtml/
Links to various versions of the Elephant Man's story
http://www.zoraskingdom.freeserve.co.uk/mbooks.htm

Fell Back

Fell Down

NURSERY RHYME:  Little Jack Horner by Mother Goose
http://www.rooneydesign.com/JackHorner.html

POEM:  The Mouth by Adelaide Crapsey
Brief Biography of Adelaide Crapsey
http://128.151.244.128/rbk/CRAPSEY2.HTM
Poet's Corner: Adelaide Crapsey
http://www.geocities.com/~spanoudi/poems/crapsey1.html
The Complete Cinquains of Adelaide Crapsey 1911-1913
http://homepages.esticker.com/billiedee/index.html

Gentlehands

POEM:  Barter by Sara Teasdale
  http://www.hearts-ease.org/library/modern/teasdale/1.html
Selected works of Sara Teasdale
http://www.geocities.com/~spanoudi/poems/teasd01.html
Brief Biography of Sara Teasdale
http://library.thinkquest.org/2847/authors/seasdale.htm
Tribute to Sara Teasdale
http://home.att.net/~Teasdale/sara.html

OPERA:  Tosca by Puccini
mp3 and lyrics of aria O Dolci Mani from Tosca
http://www.tenorissimo.com/domingo/pdsound.htm
Tosca Online
http://music.mpr.org/features/9809_tosca/

(p. 74) POEM:  Gentlehands by MEK attributed to character of DeLucca

Hello, I Lied

SONGS:  Flame, by Mekerr attributed to Ben Nevada  pg. 1 hardcover

Heart In My Mouth by Mekerr attributed to Ben Nevada pg. 31

Dad's Advise by Mekerr attributed to Ben Nevada pg. 36

Heard About You by Mekerr attributed to Cog Wheeler pg. 108

Paint Over It by Mekerr attributed to Ben Nevada pg. 118

You Get Nothing by Mekerr attributed to Cog Wheeler pg.168

I'll Love You When You're More Like Me

p. 162 of hardback, BOOK: Without Feathers by Woody Allen (1975)
(Thanks to Caroline for asking about it.)
http://www.woodyallen.co.uk/Quotes.htm
Quote: "No, Harriet.  Empty dreams are north.  Reality is
west.  False hopes are east, and I think Louisiana is south."
Various quotes including "Empty dreams are north..."
http://home.earthlink.net/~catzpaws/quotes.html
All About Woody Allen
http://torp.priv.no/woody/
Biography of Woody Allen
http://www.media.uio.no/studentene/ragnhild.paalsrud/woody/bio.HTMl
Woody Allen Quotes
http://www.chesco.com/~artman/woody.html
More Woody Allen Quotes
http://www.cp-tel.net/miller/BilLee/quotes/Woody.html

I Stay Near You

(p. 53 paperback)
(Thanks to Carrie for asking about this.)
POEM:   Aubade written by Edna St. Vincent Millay
http://www.santafe.edu/~shalizi/Poetry/Millay/Aubade.html

If I Love You, Am I Trapped Forever?

(p. 79) PLAY:  Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams
(p. 155) PLAY:  Sweet Bird of Youth by Tennessee Williams
Tennessee Williams (1911 - 1983)
http://www.imagi-nation.com/moonstruck/clsc9.htm
Tennessee Williams (1911-1983) - original name Thomas Lanier Williams
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/williams.htm
The Mississippi Writers Page: Tennessee Williams
http://www.olemiss.edu/depts/english/ms-writers/dir/williams_tennessee/

(p. 160) SONG:  Maybe I'm Amazed by Paul McCartney, 1970
mp3 of cover of Maybe I'm Amazed by Long Tom (you need a fast connection to download but it's a nice rendition)
http://operationblackout.2y.net/longtom.html
Lyrics to Maybe I'm Amazed
http://www.cyndilauper.com/song_det.asp?shname=mima
Midi version of Maybe I'm Amazed (sounds decent and doesn't take long)
http://files.midifarm.com/midifiles/General_MIDI/mcartney.asp

(p. 161) STORY:  Barbary Shore by Norman Mailer
Review of book
http://www.halcyon.com/withak/barbaryshore.htm
More reviews
http://www.thegrid.net/dakaiser/books/fiction/mailern.htm
Norman (Kingsley) Mailer (1923-)
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/nmailer.htm

(p. 170) SHORT NOVEL: The Friends of the Family by Fyodor Dostoyevski from The Short Novels of Dostoyevski
DOSTOEVSKY RESEARCH STATION
http://www.kiosek.com/dostoevsky/

Linger

Love is a Missing Person

POEM:  Healing the Wound by Heinrich Heine from Heinrich Heine: The Poems by Louis Untermeyer, 1937
Heinrich Heine
http://www.igc.apc.org/ddickerson/heine.html

Night Kites

pps. 23-24 (Thanks to Caroline d for noticing this omission.)
Poem to the Mysterious Woman by Robert Desnos
http://www.pioneeris.net/poetry/mysterious.htm

pg. 137  The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe
http://bau2.uibk.ac.at/sg/poe/works/poetry/raven.html

pg. 140 Annabel Lee by Poe
http://bau2.uibk.ac.at/sg/poe/works/poetry/annabel.html

pg. 142 The City in the Sea by Poe
http://bau2.uibk.ac.at/sg/poe/works/poetry/city_sea.html

Qrisse's Edgar Allan Poe Pages - biography, etc.
http://www.poedecoder.com/Qrisse/
Frazuh's Edgar Allan Poe Collection - read Poe and listen to music at the same time
http://www.angelfire.com/ga/frazuh/poe.html

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Slap Your Sides

SONGS (links to sound files for Big Band Songs from WWII)
http://members.aol.com/cle1019/ww2.html
p. 3, Song: Clap Your Hands (midi version)
        http://singalongwithme.com/happy/
       Lyrics to If You're Happy And You Know It
        http://www3.sympatico.ca/cottagecountry/songs/i-ify.htm
p. 27,, Songs:
       Good-bye, Mama (I'm Off to Yokohama) (audio file)
        http://members.aol.com/cle1019/wyokohama.wav
       Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition (audio file)
        http://members.aol.com/cle1019/wpassammo.wav
p. 85, Songs:
       You'd Be So Nice to Come Home to (lyrics only)
        http://www.vex.net/~buff/sinatra/cgi/arch.cgi/You'd_Be_So_Nice_to_Come_Home_To
        You'd Be So Nice to Come Home to (link to audio file)
        http://music.barnesandnoble.com/search/product.asp?ean=610614010724
       Don't Get Around Much Anymore (midi version)
        http://www.mekerr.com/dontgetaroundmuchanymore.mid
        Courtesy of: http://wilstar.com/jukebox.htm
       When the Lights Go On Again All Over the World (audio file)
        http://40thbombgroup.org/sounda.html
p. 187, Wride Gal song
Sounds from 1940s
http://www.1940.co.uk/history/sound/sound.htm

OPERAS
http://www.r-ds.com/opera/
p. 82, Operas
      Don Giovani by Mozart
        http://www.mozartproject.org/
      Don Carlo by Verdi
        http://www.r-ds.com/opera/verdiana/doncarlo.htm
      Armida by Rossini
http://www.hnh.com/NewDesign/fintro.files/bintro.files/operas/Armida(Gioachino_Rossini).htm
p. 109, Opera
       Madama Butterfly by Puccini
        http://www.r-ds.com/opera/pucciniana/butterfly.htm

BOOKS
p. 41, Books:
        For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
        http://www.hemingway.org/
        The Moon is Down by John Steinbeck
        http://www.steinbeck.org/MainFrame.html
p. 51, Book, God's Little Acre by Erskine Caldwell
http://newnan.com/ec/
p. 83, Book, The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
http://www.aynrand.org/ari_home.html
p. 137, Books:
        Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
        http://www.sc.edu/fitzgerald/
       A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
        http://www.nytimes.com/books/99/01/03/bookend/bookend.html
       Teacher's Guide to for movie "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn"
        www.teachwithmovies.org/guides/tree-grows-in-brooklyn.html

POETRY
p. 57, Poet, Edna St. Vincent Millay
http://www.geocities.com/Paris/LeftBank/6865/esvm.html
p. 101, Poem, Conscientious Objector by ESVM
http://www.geocities.com/Paris/LeftBank/6865/millayfour.html
http://www.uuwestport.com/objector.html
p. 102, Poem by ESVM with line "I know I am but summer to your heart..."
http://members.aol.com/MillayGirl/sonnetsharp.htm
p. 126, Poetry, This is My Beloved by Walter Benton
http://members.tripod.com/daleedmands/verse.html

MISCELLANEOUS
p. 49, Litany of the War Resisters' League
right before p. 71, Magazine, Life Magazine
http://www.life.com/Life/
p. 133, List of pacifists:
          A. A. Milne
            http://www.winniethepooh.co.uk/author.html
          Albert Schweitzer
            http://www.schweitzer.org/
           Gandhi
            http://www.gandhiinstitute.org/
           Henry David Thoreau
            http://libws66.lib.niu.edu/thoreau/
p. 133, Newspaper, The Phila-delphia Compass
p. 115, Pacifist newspaper, The Catholic Worker published by Dorothy Day
http://www.catholicworker.org/dorothyday/
p. 146, Movie, Yankee Doodle Dandy
http://www.picturegoer.com/yandooddanwb.html

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The Son of Somebody Famous

hardback
(p. 142) POEM:  To the Fat Lady Seen from the Train by Frances Cornford from Collected Poems, 1954
http://www.geocities.com/CollegePark/Union/7044/fatlady.htm
Autumn Morning at Cambridge by Frances Cornford
http://www.geocities.com/~spanoudi/poems/conford1.html
The Watch and The Coast: Norfolk by Frances Cornford
http://www.northshore.net/homepages/hope/engCornford.html

(p. 165) POEM:  The New Mistress from The Shropshire Lad by A. E. Housman from The Collected Poems of A.E. Housman, 1939
http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~martinh/poems/housman.html#ASLxxxiv
The Complete on-line version of The Shropshire Lad
http://ftp.std.com/obi/A.E.Housman/A.Shropshire.Lad
AE Housman, Master of invective
http://www.vichealth.vic.gov.au/~borth/Houseman.htm

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What Became of Her

hardback
(p. 96-97) POEM:  Passing a Truck Full of Chickens at Night on Highway Eighty by Jane Mead from The Lord and the General Din of the World, 1996
An Interview with Jane Mead
http://www.poems.com/meadint.htm
To the Body by Jane Mead
http://www.sarabandebooks.org/Authors/mead/SBmead.html
I Have Been Living by Jane Mead
http://www.poets.org/poems/poems.cfm?prmID=2120
Sometimes the Mind by Jane Mead
http://www.english.swt.edu/excerpt.dir/excerpt1.dir/mead1.htm
About Jane Mead, Poet-in-Residence at Wake Forest University
http://english.tribble.wfu.edu/english/bios/meadjw.htm

(p. 90) POEM:  Fate by Fanny Heaslip Lea from Ladies Home Journal, 1920
http://www.robotwisdom.com/solace/02seeking.html (it's at the bottom of the page)

POEM:  Point of No Return written by MEK for book, attributed to Julie's mother

SONG:  Know by Nick Drake (allegedly used in a 1995 NIKE ad but deemed an urban myth by some)
Nick Drake retrospective on NPR - 9 minute Real Audio; you can hear all of Know!
    includes: Cello Song, Pink Moon, Black Eyed Dog, Clothes of Sand, Know
http://www.npr.org/programs/morning/features/2000/nov/001117.ndrake.html
Nick Drake: Darkness Can Give You the Brightest Light by T.J. McGrath
    [From Dirty Linen #42 Oct/Nov '92]
http://www.dirtynelson.com/linen/feature/42drake.html
The Nick Drake Files
    Include some Real Audio files
http://www.algonet.se/~iguana/DRAKE/DRAKE.html
Nick Drake, Part I - article about Volkswagen commercial using Pink Moon by Nick Drake
http://www.waltbruckner.com/pages/drake/drake1.html
Nick Drake's one and only interview
http://www.nickdrakeworld.com/nickinterview.htm
Real Audio clip of Fruit Tree by Nick Drake
http://www.inkblotmagazine.com/rev-archive/drake.htm
The Nick Drake Admiration Page
http://www.geocities.com/brendan_smith2000/nickdrake/nickdrake.html
 
 

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