Talk:Eugene Aram

Untitled
If P. G. Wodehouse's references to Hood's poem are to be exhausted, Joy  in the Morning,  a Jeeves-Wooster novel, should be noted. In Chapter VIII, Bertie, terrified by Stilton Cheesewright's jealously, compares himself with Eugene Aram: "At moment of going to press, with Stilton's eyes boring holes through me, I had begun to feel like Eugene Aram just before they put the gyves on his wrists.  I don't know if you remember the passage?  'Ti-tum-ti-tum ti-tumty tum, ti-tumty tumty mist  (I think it's mist), and Eugene Aram walked between, with gyves upon his wrist.'"  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.179.196.75 (talk) 06:56, 30 January 2012 (UTC)

Hood poem performances?
Are there any famous performances? I can only find this one on from Librivox. Risingrain (talk) 23:59, 6 March 2013 (UTC)

Sources for improving the article
Since I see that the article still appears to draw pretty heavily from the 1911 Britannica, I'll just note that Judith Flanders' The Invention of Murder has quite a lot of material on Aram. Her view that Aram's repute as a scholar and philologist is substantially embellished by gentrified retellings of his crime is an interesting one, and could merit inclusion, I believe. --Agamemnon2 (talk) 21:14, 16 August 2013 (UTC)

in literature
The following section seems to me insufficiently relevant, because it's only referencing the poem, not Aram directly. Like most of the poetry snippets that Wodehouse quotes in his novels, he uses this line more than once; there's the one in Joy  in the Morning mentioned above (under "Untitled") and another one I know of is in A Damsel in Distress (Jenkins, 1956, p 50) "Like the poem, don't you know. 'And poor old Percy walked between with gyves upon his wrists.' " There's no mention of Aram in either, it's just that particular line of the poem that's being referenced. The other quotes we've got, by contrast, actually mention Aram.

Bertie mentions the poem again in Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves when he recalls being recently "entertained" in Totleigh Towers. “	'The word "entertained" is not well chosen, Jeeves. If locking a fellow in his bedroom, as near as a toucher with gyves upon his wrists, and stationing the local police force on the lawn below to ensure that he doesn't nip out of the window at the end of a knotted sheet is your idea of entertaining, it isn't mine, not by a jugful.'	”

I vote it be removed. -- Ty rS  10:26, 5 December 2014 (UTC)


 * Note: yet another instance of Aram being mentioned in a piece of Wodehouse fiction (1st published 1924) is on page 279 of Bill the Conqueror (Everyman, London, 2008) ("It was with all the depression of a Eugene Aram that he strode rom the pond and buried himself in a quiet, leafy by-way.")-- Ty  rS  15:42, 2 January 2015 (UTC)

Spelling of Houseman
The article presently spells the name of Aram's accomplice both "Housman" and "Houseman." The two sources I can access that mention him (Encyclopedia Britannica 1th Ed. and the Dictionary of National Biography) spell it Houseman so I am inclined to standardize it as such through the article. I would be curious, though, to hear if/where people find it as Housman. Theturbolemming (talk) 19:19, 6 April 2022 (UTC)