"The phrases ""cry wolf"" and ""sour grapes"" have a basis in which collection of stories?"
The Fox and the Grapes The Fox and the Grapes The Fox and the Grapes is one of the Aesop's fables, numbered 15 in the Perry Index. The narration is concise and subsequent retellings have often been equally so. The story concerns a fox that tries to eat grapes from a vine but cannot reach them. Rather than admit defeat, he states they are undesirable. The expression "sour grapes" originated from this fable. The fable of The Fox and the Grapes is one of the few which feature only a single animal protagonist. There are several Greek versions as well as one in Latin by
Sour Grapes (poetry collection) Sour Grapes (poetry collection) Sour Grapes: a book of poems is an early work by William Carlos Williams. Published in 1921, the collection includes poems such as "A Widow's Lament in Springtime", "The Great Figure", "Complaint", and "Queen-Ann's-Lace". Williams was still struggling to find his audience at the time that he published "Sour Grapes" and he was forced to pay for some, if not all, of the publishing expenses himself. As a book, it is highly representative of Williams's early writing. The book is filled out with improvisational pieces that Williams seems to have thrown together in the spare moments