I am trying to locate information and if possible drawings of the two buses in the attached images. They are both of the Cream Bus Service Ltd. I believe one is a Carrier CY and the other a Ford. I actually make model airplanes but would like to make a couple of models in remembrance of my Grandfather — hence my reach out for this help.

The early Middle English period Poetry. The Norman Conquest worked no immediate transformation on either the language or the literature of the English. Older poetry continued to be copied during the last half of the 11th century; two poems of the early 12th century—“ Durham,” which praises that city’s cathedral and its relics, and “Instructions for Christians,” a didactic piece.

All dates are AD or CE current era unless otherwise specified. Some dates are approximations or “educated guesses. You can click any hyperlinked poem title or writer name to “drill down. If you’re a student who “doesn’t like poetry” and is only here grudgingly because of a school assignment, please reconsider. Do you like music: If so, the vast majority of all such songs are rhyming poems set to music. So unless you dislike all the words of every song you’ve ever heard, you really do like poetry, after all!

Our “Top Ten” lists allow you quickly find the best poets and poems, in our estimation and according to other critics. The following sections then go into more detail, covering each major period from the Prehistoric to Modernism and Postmodernism. As we begin our quest, let’s keep in mind that the English words “story” and “history” derive from the same Latin root, historia.

Before writing existed, all knowledge had to be passed down orally, and much of it did so in the form of poetry, because poetry is easier to remember than prose, as with nursery rhymes and the lyrics of our favorite songs. Some of the poems on this page, as ancient as they are in their written forms, may be much older if they were passed down from generation to generation, orally.