The Female of the Species (poem) says Kipling, has the greater determination - the greater courage and single-mindedness in the pursuit of the important in life. "The Female of the Species" and its refrain have been used as a catchphrase in other works. In 1928 the Bulldog Drummond story "The Female of the Species" may have lifted the title. This story was adapted as the 1967 European spy movie "Deadlier Than the Male". Scott Walker of The Walker Brothers wrote and performed the accompanying musical theme and scored a minor hit on the UK Singles Chart in 1966. In 1996 the English pop group Space released
The Task (poem) that occur to him naturally in the course of his reflections rather than being suggested by poetic convention, and the diction throughout is, for an 18th-century poem, unusually conversational and unartificial. As the poet himself writes, <poem> ...my raptures are not conjured up To serve occasions of poetic pomp, But genuine...</poem> Cowper prefaced "The Task" with an account of its genesis: A lady, fond of blank verse, demanded a poem of that kind from the Author, and gave him the S for a subject. He obeyed; and, having much leisure, connected another subject with it; and, pursuing the train of