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    John Lennon wrote a song and Stephen King a series of novels inspired by what Victorian poet?

    Question #86503. Asked by nibbles0011. (Sep 27 07 7:30 AM)


    star_gazer

    		Edward Lear

    Sep 27 07, 7:38 AM
    nibbles0011

    		Thanks star_gazer

    Sep 27 07, 7:58 AM
    star_gazer

    		Your welcome, Lear is best know for "The Owl and the Pussycat".

    Sep 27 07, 8:18 AM
    McGruff

    		Needs a reference.

    Sep 27 07, 8:29 AM
    lanfranco

    		And I hope it will be one that mentions which novels of Stephen King were inspired by Lear. I'm very curious.

    Sep 27 07, 8:32 AM
    MonkeyOnALeash

    		I think there has been an error concerning Lear and King.

    As wiki says....


    Influences:

    Robert Bloch, Ray Bradbury, William Golding, Shirley Jackson, Fritz Leiber, H.P. Lovecraft, Richard Matheson, John D. MacDonald, Edgar Allan Poe, J. R. R. Tolkien, Stanley G. Weinbaum, Robert Browning (Dark Tower Series), Daphne du Maurier (Bag of Bones), Alexandre Dumas, père (Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption).

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_King

    Sep 27 07, 8:40 AM
    zbeckabee

    		Correct answer is Robert Browning:

    John Lennon's song "Grow old with me," which was inspired by the Robert's poem Rabbi ben Ezra, appears on his album Milk and Honey.

    Stephen King's Dark Tower series was inspired by Browning's poem Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came.


    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Browning

    Sep 27 07, 9:28 AM
    nibbles0011

    		Thanks zbeckabee that's the one

    Sep 27 07, 2:51 PM

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