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Longfellow is also directly mentioned with a fictitious poem towards the end of Act I. [8] Lorenz Hart alludes to Longfellow's poem in the title song of the musical On Your Toes: Remember the youth 'mid snow and ice Who bore the banner with the strange device, Excelsior! This motto applies to folks who dwell In Richmond Hill or in New Rochelle,
Historically, the mock-heroic style was popular in 17th-century Italy, and in the post-Restoration and Augustan periods in Great Britain.The earliest example of the form is the Batrachomyomachia ascribed to Homer by the Romans and parodying his work, but believed by most modern scholars to be the work of an anonymous poet in the time of Alexander the Great.
The New York Times even reviewed one such parody four days before reviewing Longfellow's original poem. This was Pocahontas: or the Gentle Savage , a comic extravaganza which included extracts from an imaginary Viking poem, "burlesquing the recent parodies, good, bad, and indifferent, on The Song of Hiawatha.
"Excelsior" (motto), official motto of the state of New York "Excelsior!", catchphrase of Stan Lee, who often used it at the end of his "Stan's Soapbox" column in Marvel Comics
As a work, the poem encapsulates much of the appeal of baseball, including the involvement of the crowd. It also has a fair amount of baseball jargon that can pose challenges for the uninitiated. This is the complete poem as it originally appeared in The Daily Examiner. After publication, various versions with minor changes were produced.
Loyd had a friend who was willing to wager that he could always find the piece which delivered the principal mate of a chess problem. Loyd composed this problem as a joke and bet his friend dinner that he could not pick a piece that didn't give mate in the main line (his friend immediately identified the pawn on b2 as being the least likely to deliver mate), and when the problem was published ...
Jacobs wrote 13 paperback books under the Mad imprint, including Mad for Better or Verse, a collection of poetry parodies, as well as the biography The Mad World of William M. Gaines. [ 5 ] One of Jacobs' non- Mad -related projects was the 1965 Alvin Steadfast on Vernacular Island , a gentle spoof of post-Victorian boys' books.
From Hiawatha's Wedding Feast music by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor based on the poem The Song of Hiawatha by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: 1932 Pass Everyman 1932 King John By Stanley Holloway 1933 Sam's Medal By Mabel Constanduros and Michael Hogan Stanley Holloway:The Essential Collection (2007) 1933 Old Sam's Party By Mabel Constanduros