You Are Old, Father William is a poem by Lewis Carroll that appears in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. It is a parody of Robert Southey's poem, The Old Man's Comforts and How He Gained Them. I recall once seeing a version of "You Are Old, Father William" that could perhaps be described as a pa...

"The Grand old Duke of York" is a well-known English nursery rhyme concerning the exploits of an not-specifically-identified duke of York. Wikipedia, citing the Opies and other books, gives a summary of the state of knowledge concerning which duke and which historical event are being referred to ...

D. J. Enright's poem "The Typewriter Revolution" (1971) is a text in which a typewriter appears to revolt against its owner (?), resulting in the distortion of texts and literary allusions. Below is an example: TAB e or not TAB e i.e. the ? Tygirl tygirl burning bride The poem ends with the fol...

I'm looking for a beauty and the beast type short story where the beast wears a mask and wins beauty playing cards with her dad. I remember that the beast cries diamonds or some type of gem and gives them to her to attempt to woo her. At the end beauty becomes a beast instead of beast becoming hu...