Popular Culture
In The Other Boleyn Girl (2008), Mary Boleyn (Scarlett Johansson) sang this song in the presence of Katherine of Aragon (Ana Torrent).
In the 2011 BBC television miniseries South Riding, schoolmistress Sarah Burton (played by Anna Maxwell Martin) quotes Westron Wynde, telling her favorite student that, though it was written 400 years ago, it still sounds modern.
The poem is quoted in Madeleine L'Engle's book The Small Rain (1945).
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“The poet needs a ground in popular tradition on which he may work, and which, again, may restrain his art within the due temperance. It holds him to the people, supplies a foundation for his edifice; and, in furnishing so much work done to his hand, leaves him at leisure, and in full strength for the audacities of his imagination.”
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