Burning Bright in 1942, but, of the three, "Burning Bright" was the most complete attempt at the form. Steinbeck believed that he may have been the first person to attempt the style. At the time of writing the introduction, in which he explained his intentions, he believed it was a form that would bear further experimentation. In a continuation of the experiment, a stage production was planned to open at the same time the book was published. The original title of the book, "In the Forests of the Night", was a line from "The Tyger" by William Blake, but complaints that it
HMS Tyger approached Garden Key. The crew set fire to the wreck of the "Tyger" and again prepared to defend themselves. During a parley under a flag of truce, the Spanish informed the English that their longboat had been captured, with three of the crew killed and the rest imprisoned in Havana. After an offer of food and water was refused by the "Tyger", the Spanish sloop sailed away. In 1743 the Governor of Cuba claimed, in connection with the wreck of the "Tyger", that the Spanish had attacked and taken a launch and a sloop, and killed twelve Englishmen. The crew