The Wreck of the Hesperus Felicia Hemans rather than to Longfellow). Additionally, in Kevin Sullivan's 1985 film of "Anne of Green Gables", a character recites "The Wreck of the Hesperus" prior to Anne's rousing rendition of "The Highwayman". "The Wreck of the Hesperus" is also mentioned in the 2017 Woody Allen film "Wonder Wheel". "The Wreck of the Hesperus" is referenced in the comic song "Lydia the Tattooed Lady" by Harold Arlen and Yip Harburg, performed by Groucho Marx in the movie "At the Circus" (1939); by Virginia Weidler in "The Philadelphia Story" (1940); by Robin Williams in "The Fisher King" (1991); by Kermit the
The Tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher can be found in the Authorized King James Version of the Bible. "Jeremy Fisher" reflects the characteristic cadence and "employs a psalm-like caesura in the middle of [a] sentence". Carpenter sees in Potter's work thematic shifts from the early work onward. In the first stage of her work, he sees in stories such as "The Tale of Peter Rabbit" a type of Jack-the-Giant-Killer theme, in which a small creature confronts a large creature that he believes culminates in "The Tale of Jeremy Fisher". Potter places Jeremy Fisher in a dangerous world, according to Carpenter. The fishing experience is frightening: the