What Was The Source Of The Following Books, And Who Wrote/composed Them

[vonjon]

1) The road less travelled [M Scott Peck]
2) Cast a cold eye [Mary McCarthy]
3) Seize the day [Saul Bellow}
4) The children's hour [Lillian Hellman]
5) From here to eternity [James Jones
6) John Brown's body [Steven Vincent benet]

[Tilly2]

1 Robert Frost

[Tilly2]

3. Dead Poets' Society?

[Mamyalynne]

2 Cast a cold eye On life, on death. Horseman, pass by! That is the epitaph that Poet William Butler Yeats wrote for himself.

[JimF]

Pretty sure that Saul Bellow's fourth novel, published in 1956, didn't take its title from the 1989 film Dead Poets' Society.

I'd have said Horace.

[vonjon]

thank you Mamyalynne.
thank you Tilly2 although im not sure about number 3 being dead poets society
jimF Horace?

[pixie374]

Carpe diem was a big part of "Dead Poet's society". No film would be the "source".

[vonjon]

JimF Horace's carpe diem? is a line from dead poets society (I think)

[JimF]

Yes it is, but look at the OP - you know, the one you wrote....

[Mamyalynne]

Saul Bellow wrote his novel in the Fifties, hence an Eighties film could not have been the source..

I'd go - Horace too.

[Tilly2]

I think I have the wrong end of the stick here.

[Mamyalynne]

4

Possibly...

//Dashiell Hammett suggested the idea for the play to Hellman after he read a book titled Bad Companions (1930),a true-crime anthology by William Roughead.It related an incident that took place in 1810 at a school in Edinburgh, Scotland. //

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Children%27s_Hour_(play)

[JimF]

6 Take your pick:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Brown%27s_Body

[Mamyalynne]

5

The title was inspired by a line from Rudyard Kipling's poem "Gentleman Rankers"

Gentlemen-rankers out on a spree,
Damned from here to Eternity,
God ha' mercy on such as we,
Baa! Yah! Bah!

[JimF]

5 Rudyard Kipling (Gentlemen Rankers)

[jno]

it doesn't look as if anyone knows for sure who wrote 6

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Brown%27s_Body

[jno]

sorry, missed JimF's post.

[mallyh]

i'm not understanding the questions , are the names in brackets the op guess or what ?

[Mamyalynne]

They are the authors and the question seeks to find where the source of these titles came from. eg

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seize_the_Day_(novel)

I think we did quite well between us, hope vonjon agrees.

[mallyh]

mamyalynne I wasn't doubting the answers just I just didn't get the questions x

[Mamyalynne]

I realise that Mally, it's an unusual and interesting set of questions isn't it.

Something I hadn't given much thought to before.