T.S. Eliot said, "When Whitman speaks of the lilacs or the mockingbird his theories and beliefs drop away like a needless pretext".
On the last leg of the voyage Darwin finished his 770-page diary, wrapped up 1,750 pages of notes, drew up 12 catalogs of his 5,436 skins, bones, and carcasses and still he wondered: Was each Galapagos mockingbird a naturally produced variety?
In North America the mockingbird (Mimus polyglottos) is a wonderful performer with a rich, melodious, long-continued song.
Tolkien, The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank – and To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee (and breathe…) So, in short, what I'm trying to say is give them a go!
No Labour education secretary was going to ban To Kill a Mockingbird.
See article.Just a few weeks after confounding the pundits by declaring that he was seriously interested in running for president again, Mitt Romney announced that, upon reflection and a great deal of data-crunching, he was not going to enter the race after all.Harper Lee said she was "humbled and amazed" that her second novel would be published, 55 years after "To Kill a Mockingbird".
In its first year, "To Kill a Mockingbird" sold 2.5m copies.
But the differences between them are equally, if not more, important.Where "To Kill a Mockingbird" burst into public consciousness from an unknown novelist, Ms Tartt is already famous.
Any claims otherwise are false".~ A statement by Harper Lee's lawyers "'To Kill a Mockingbird' Author Repudiates Journalist's Memoir About Her" (New York Times).
One jurist with superb qualifications was scuppered when it was revealed that, at the age of 12, he had described the film "To Kill a Mockingbird" as "kind of boring".
How could a hitherto unknown novel by Harper Lee, writer of "To Kill a Mockingbird", remain hidden for 60 years, and why was it not published before?
