As a child I enjoyed some of the Gumdrop stories, without ever realising that the name of the car Gumdrop was the same as a type of sweet. Perhaps the reason for this name is explained somewhere in the books and I've long forgotten it. Why was the car called Gumdrop? It doesn't seem to look espe...

In the poem, Endymion: A poetic romance, a stanza by the name of A Thing Of Beauty has a particular line which goes as follows:- For simple sheep; and such are daffodils With the green world they live in; and clear rills. I was told that in this line, "simple sheep" was a biblical referen...

In the poem Endymion: A poetic romance (1818), the first stanza of Book I (beginning, "A thing of beauty is a joy for ever") focuses a great deal on beauty where Keats presents some of his views on poetry with an eternally famous line, 'A thing of beauty is a joy for ever'. Was Keats ever critic...