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Excelsior! There is a Lancashire version or parody, Uppards, written by Marriott Edgar one hundred years later in 1941. James Thurber (1894–1961) illustrated the poem in Fables for Our Time and Famous Poems Illustrated in 1945.
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.
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 ...
Excelsior, a book of poems by Alexandru Macedonski "Excelsior" (short story), a 1948 short story by P. G. Wodehouse "Excelsior" (Whitman), a poem by Walt Whitman ...
Title page illustration for an 1864 edition of Tales of a Wayside Inn. Tales of a Wayside Inn is a collection of poems by American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.The book, published in 1863, depicts a group of people at the Wayside Inn in Sudbury, Massachusetts, as each tells a story in the form of a poem.
The Torrents of Spring front cover art. The Torrents of Spring is a novella written by Ernest Hemingway, published in 1926.Subtitled "A Romantic Novel in Honor of the Passing of a Great Race", Hemingway used the work as a spoof of the world of writers.
The Oldest Member gets an idea. They will tell Braid about the poems, and Braid, an outspoken child, will make fun of Timothy, embarrassing Timothy and Rodney will stop. The Oldest Member shows Braid one of the poems. However, Braid likes the poem, and refuses to participate in the Children's Cup if William doesn't write poems about him ...
Excelsior, Jr. is an 1895 musical comedy with music by George Lowell Tracy, A. Baldwin Sloane, and Edward E. Rice, and also with lyrics by Robert Ayres Barnet. After playing in New Haven , it debuted on Broadway to a great fanfare as the first production at Hammerstein's Olympia on November 25, 1895. [ 1 ]