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Entry: Roses are Red, Violets are Blue - A377228
Author: Gavroche - U55761

The origin of the cliche:

Roses are Red, Violets are Blue

It's not definite, but there is good basis to believe it was the invention of Victor Hugo, perhaps with some inspiration from Edmund Spenser

You don't mention the "classic" Aqua song of the same title...

Good entry
-Lucinda

The only thing I can think of to comment on is your spelling of Spenser's "Faerie Queen" -- it should be "Queene", with the extra "e".

Oops -- also, from the Subeditor's Style page (http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/Subeditors-Style):

>>Italicize names of films, TV shows, plays, books, newspapers, magazines, titles of albums, poems of book length, scientific names (such as Homo sapiens and foreign phrases (but not the ones that have been around for ages and are almost in constant use - café is a good example of this). Also, interestingly, names of ships should be written in italics.

So you should probably change your underlines to italics. Is "The Faerie Queene" book-length? I don't know -- I've somehow luckily avoided reading the entire thing. If it isn't, it should be in single quotation marks (I'm American; I use double because that's just how I type ).

Thisis a great entry - continuing your literary themes

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I'm so glad you did mean to do so....Thanks for all the compliments.

By the way....The Faerie Queene is definitely what one would call an 'Epic' poem. It's quite long. It deserves italics.

That what I'd guessed, but rather safe and asking, than sorry and stupid-looking.

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