But who wrote it, and what do the lyrics mean? ‘Twinkle Twinkle Little Star’ is based on a 19th-century English poem, written by Jane Taylor. The poem, which is called ‘The Star’, is in couplet form ...

More than three decades later, this poem by Ann and Jane Taylor was set to music: a 1761 French folk tune that, coincidentally, seemed to fit perfectly: “Twinkle, twinkle, little star / how I ...

When discussing the meaning of the traditional lullaby and nursery rhyme, “Twinkle ... from a 19th-century poem—”The Star“—written by author Jane Taylor, who was born in 1783 and ...

The English lyrics of "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star" were written by Jane Taylor (1783-1824), an English poet and writer. The poem was first published in 1806 in a collection of poems by Taylor ...

An art exhibition inspired by the poet who wrote the first verse of Twinkle Twinkle Little Star is to be held 200 years after her death. Jane Taylor published a poem called The Star, having ...

By chance, it is curiously appropriate for cosmology: “Twinkle, twinkle, little star ... known the name of the author of “The Star”? It is Jane Taylor who, along with her sister Ann ...

The rhyming verse “Twinkle, twinkle, little star / How I wonder what you are” made more sense as a question when it was first penned by poet Jane Taylor in 1806 than it does today.

Twinkle, twinkle, little star. Jane Taylor herself is little known. She and her writer sister Ann lived in Essex, England, where Jane died at 40 of breast cancer “teeming”, it was said “with ...

A narrative nonfiction style and interspersed quotes distinguish this biography of Jane Taylor ... would become “Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star.” Brown’s lyrical lines trace Taylor’s ...

A statue of the poet who wrote the first verse of Twinkle Twinkle Little Star will be formally unveiled. Sir Bob Russell raised £90,000 to create the life-sized tribute to Jane Taylor, and her ...

Ardleigh sculptor Mandy Pratt created a statue of Jane and Ann Taylor for Colchester High Street An art exhibition inspired by the poet who wrote the first verse of Twinkle Twinkle Little Star is ...