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In 1971, Les Crane used a spoken-word recording of the poem as the lead track of his album Desiderata. [20] His producers had assumed that the poem was too old to be copyrighted, but the publicity surrounding the record led to clarification of Ehrmann's authorship and the eventual payment of royalties.
Max Ehrmann (September 26, 1872 – September 9, 1945) was an American writer, poet, and attorney from Terre Haute, Indiana, widely known for his 1927 prose poem "Desiderata" (Latin: "things desired"). He often wrote on spiritual themes.
It is a parody of Les Crane's 1971 spoken word recording of "Desiderata", the early 20th-century poem by Max Ehrmann. ("Desiderata" is Latin for "desired things"; "deteriorata" is a portmanteau of the verb "deteriorate" and "desiderata".) The parody was written by Tony Hendra for National Lampoon, and was recorded for the album Radio Dinner.
Desiderata, plural of a desideratum, the objects of desire; Desiderata of the Lombards (fl. 770–771), wife of Charlemagne; Kerckhoffs's desiderata; 344 Desiderata, a main belt asteroid; Desideratum, a horse which won the Prix du Lys in 2006; Desiderata Valley, a fictional neighborhood in The Sims 2: FreeTime
My attempt to justify the poem in the article on both the right and left, that was reverted, was to make it as faithful as possible to the earliest published version in 1948, a photocopy of which is two-thirds down www.desiderata.com. This includes requiring each line to begin and end with the same words as those in the photocopy, as poems are ...
To encrypt a message, the agent would select words from the poem as the key. Every poem code message commenced with an indicator group of five letters, whose position in the alphabet indicated which five words of an agent's poem would be used to encrypt the message. For instance, suppose the poem is the first stanza of Jabberwocky:
Desiderata (fl. 771) was a queen consort of the Franks. She was one of four daughters of Desiderius , King of the Lombards , and his wife Ansa, Queen of the Lombards . Desiderata was married to Charlemagne in 770 in effort to create a bond between Francia and the Kingdom of the Lombards .
William Hughes Mearns (1875–1965), better known as Hughes Mearns, was an American educator and poet.A graduate of Harvard University and the University of Pennsylvania, Mearns was a professor at the Philadelphia School of Pedagogy from 1905 to 1920.