Abstract
These lines begin an “Ode”which has permeated culture throughout the last hundred years. In 1912, Edward Elgar set it to music, as did Hungarian composer Zoltán Kodály in 1964, to commemorate the 700thanniversary of Merton College, Oxford. In 1971, Gene Wilder spoke the opening lines as Willy Wonka in the filmWilly Wonka & the Chocolate Factory.The words appear as epigraphs in an eclectic range of novels, including science fiction (Raymond E. Feist'sRage of a Demon King), fantasy (Elizabeth Haydon'sThe Assassin King), and historical fiction (E. V. Thompson'sThe Music Makers). They are quoted in an even more varied selection of books, including travelogues (Warren Rovetch'sThe Creaky Traveler in Ireland), textbooks (Arnold O. Allen'sProbability, Statistics and Queueing Theoryand R. S. Vassan and Sudha Seshadri'sTextbook of Medicine), New Age self-help books (Raven Kaldera'sMoon Phase Astrology: The Lunar Key to Your Destiny), autobiographies (Hilary Liftin'sCandy and Me, a Love Story) and pedagogical guides (Lindsay Peer and Gavin Reid'sDyslexia – Successful Inclusion in the Secondary School).
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