"Worstward Ho" is a work of prose by

Samuel Beckett Samuel Barclay Beckett (; 13 April 1906 – 22 December 1989) was an Irish writer of novels, plays, short stories, and poems. Writing in both English and French, his literary and theatrical work features bleak, impersonal, and Tragicomedy, tra ...

. Its title is a parody of Charles Kingsley's '' Westward Ho!''. Written in English in 1983, it is the penultimate novella by Beckett. Rotterdam kunstwerk formule b

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'' and '' Ill Seen Ill Said'', it was collected in the volume '' Nohow On'' in 1989. Beckett’s famous quote can be found in Worstward Ho – "Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." Pianist John Tilbury set the piece to music. Tilbury referred to the "remarkable text" of Worstward Ho as "a deconstruction, no less, of the grammar and syntax of the English language with an extreme economy of words, many of which are monosyllabic."

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Short stories by Samuel Beckett 1983 short stories {{1980s-story-stub