Villanelle protagonist Stephen Dedalus. William Empson revived the villanelle more seriously in the 1930s, and his contemporaries and friends W. H. Auden and Dylan Thomas also picked up the form. Dylan Thomas's "Do not go gentle into that good night" is perhaps the most renowned villanelle of all. Theodore Roethke and Sylvia Plath wrote villanelles in the 1950s and 1960s, and Elizabeth Bishop wrote a particularly famous and influential villanelle, "One Art," in 1976. The villanelle reached an unprecedented level of popularity in the 1980s and 1990s with the rise of the New Formalism. Since then, many contemporary poets have written
Things That Go Bump in the Night (Dad's Army) Things That Go Bump in the Night (Dad's Army) "Things That Go Bump in the Night" is the sixth episode of the sixth series of the British television sitcom "Dad's Army" that was originally transmitted on 5 December 1973. It is a dark and stormy night. The platoon is lost. Jones' van has only half a gallon of petrol in its tank. Tired, cold and miserable, the men decide to spend to the night in a nearby house. It appears to be deserted, but is it? Due to a miscalculation by Sergeant Wilson, the platoon are lost in a thunderstorm