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List of literary allusions in the texts, the chapters where they appear and the original source (if known)Swallows and Amazons * =====Chapter head quote: Or like stout Cortez ... silent, on a peak in Darien. see John Keats's sonnet "On first looking into Chapman's Homer".===== * =====Titty had named the peak Darien ... she had heard the sonnet read aloud at school (SA1).===== * ====='Wraggle Taggle Gipsy' is actually a song===== * ====="And what happened to Don't Care?" (Mary Walker, SA2) "Came to a bad end", said Roger. A traditional nursery rhyme: "Don’t care didn’t care / Don’t care was wild / Don’t care stole plum and pear / Like any beggar’s child. / Don’t care was made to care / Don’t care was hung / Don’t care was put in a pot / And boiled till he was done." A New York

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rdfs:comment	List of literary allusions in the texts, the chapters where they appear and the original source (if known)Swallows and Amazons * =====Chapter head quote: Or like stout Cortez ... silent, on a peak in Darien. see John Keats's sonnet "On first looking into Chapman's Homer".===== * =====Titty had named the peak Darien ... she had heard the sonnet read aloud at school (SA1).===== * ====='Wraggle Taggle Gipsy' is actually a song===== * ====="And what happened to Don't Care?" (Mary Walker, SA2) "Came to a bad end", said Roger. A traditional nursery rhyme: "Don’t care didn’t care / Don’t care was wild / Don’t care stole plum and pear / Like any beggar’s child. / Don’t care was made to care / Don’t care was hung / Don’t care was put in a pot / And boiled till he was done." A New York
dcterms:subject	Literary criticism Swallows and Amazons series Books
abstract	List of literary allusions in the texts, the chapters where they appear and the original source (if known)Swallows and Amazons * =====Chapter head quote: Or like stout Cortez ... silent, on a peak in Darien. see John Keats's sonnet "On first looking into Chapman's Homer".===== * =====Titty had named the peak Darien ... she had heard the sonnet read aloud at school (SA1).===== * ====='Wraggle Taggle Gipsy' is actually a song===== * ====="And what happened to Don't Care?" (Mary Walker, SA2) "Came to a bad end", said Roger. A traditional nursery rhyme: "Don’t care didn’t care / Don’t care was wild / Don’t care stole plum and pear / Like any beggar’s child. / Don’t care was made to care / Don’t care was hung / Don’t care was put in a pot / And boiled till he was done." A New York Times article of 29 Sept. 1870 criticising, inter alia, the lax observation of harbour quarantine regulations, begins: ' "Don't care came to a bad end" was a maxim which old-time story-books endeavored to impress upon the youthful mind, and with tolerable success. ...'===== * =====He comes dancing on to the scene. "'And well,' says he, 'and how are your arms and legs and liver and lungs and bones afeeling now?' Don't you remember?": From John Masefield's "One of the Bo'sun's Yarns" part of his Saltwater Ballads. The first part of the quote comes from an earlier verse but John has put them together.===== * =====Books taken to Wild Cat Island by the Swallows:===== * * =====Titty took Robinson Crusoe: "It tells you just what to do on an island." (SA2). Later: "So you really are Robinson Crusoe," said mother, "and I am Man Friday in earnest." (SA18).===== * =====John took The Seaman's Handybook. (The only result for this in Google Books is SA and a couple of other books about Arthur Ransome, so this might be a fictional book.)===== * =====John took Vol 3 of The Baltic Pilot: The Baltic pilot: comprising directions for the Baltic Sea, Gulf of Finland, and Gulf of Bothnia, Great Britain. Hydrographic Office, Printed for the Hydrographic Office, Admiralty, 1888 (Google Books)===== * =====Susan took Simple Cooking for Small Households: (As with The Seaman's Handybook above, the only result for this in Google Books is SA and a couple of other books about Arthur Ransome, however an unrelated reference seems to confirm this was an actual publication.) (Query, whether Jessie Conrad, Simple cooking: precepts for a little house (1921), with a preface by her husband, Joseph Conrad, and subsequently titled A handbook of cookery for a small house').===== * =====Queen Elizabeth and Sir Walter Raleigh (SA2): see Elizabeth I and Walter Raleigh===== * =====Chapter 3 header by Thackeray:=====There were three sailors in Bristol city Who took a. boat and went to sea. But first with beef and captain's biscuit And pickled pork they loaded she.

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