English Lit Buff Gifts

Alfred Tennyson

'The iceman cometh too soon!'

'Alas, poor Yorick, I knew you well. But dude, you're creeping me out, so I gotta un-friend you!'

"I think I may have stumbled on something, Walpole."

German Expressionist Breakfast

The writer: something who devotes a lifetime of solitude to the same of communication.

'What amazes me most is that years ago I couldn't even spell teacher - now I are one!'

"Have you read any of Shakespeare's plays?"

John Bunyan

"The spoon, he ran away with the goddam spoon."

Wishing Well, Wishing Good.

'Yorick? No, I don't think so, unless of course he was a Neanderthal!'

Emily Dickinson: Mime - "I think she's saying something about death."

Cat Burglar

Rape of the Lock- The Dream

Wordplay: In The Bag.

Doggone

Humpty Dumpty goes bungee jumping.

'Fyodor Dostoevsky sends weeks describing Alexy Karamazov's quest for a white whale, and then discards the entire chapter."

"Hamlet. By William Shakespeare." Painting.

Roget's Pet

Shakespeare Street

"If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore, and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God which had been shown! … Emerson" "Good boy!"

T.S. Eliot lacks the courage to eat a peach.

'What? You used a Welshman? The recipe specifically calls for a scot!'

Shakespeare's Brain

'..It's just that with all your amazing powers of deduction and elimination, Holmes, I'm just a little surprised that the best solution you can come up with for seeing off the hound of the Baskervilles, is to 'chase them across the moors with a hoover. up

"My dad says this pencil was once used by William Shakespeare." "Is it 2B or not 2B?"

"Some Debussy, Igor."

Richard the Turd

"You'd be angry, too, if your alter ego was a successful physician."