Anyone lived in a pretty how town adapted into a short film of the same name by George Lucas. In the poem, Cummings states the lines, "spring summer autumn winter", (3) and "sun moon stars rain", (8) multiple times. In reiterating these lines he changes the order of the seasons, "autumn winter spring summer", (11) and "stars rain sun moon", (21). Anyone lived in a pretty how town "anyone lived in a pretty how town" is a poem written by E. E. Cummings. First published in 1940, the poem details the lives of residents in a nameless town. Like much of Cummings's work, the poem is actually
A Gest of Robyn Hode Many elements of the Gest, including the knight's debt, form a major part of the Robin McKinley novel, "The Outlaws of Sherwood". Bob Frank has recorded the entire Gest on a CD, in a modern English version entitled "A Little Gest of Robin Hood." (Bowstring Records, 2002) He performs it with a guitar, in a "talking blues" style. Stanza 1: <poem> </poem> Stanza 144: <poem> </poem> A Gest of Robyn Hode "A Gest of Robyn Hode" is Child Ballad 117; it is also called A Lyttell Geste of Robyn Hode in one of the two oldest books that contain it.