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Dorothy Parker (née Rothschild; August 22, 1893 – June 7, 1967) was an American poet and writer of fiction, plays and screenplays based in New York; she was known for her caustic wisecracks, and eye for 20th-century urban foibles.
Rose was said to have been the first to buy a copy of Philip James Bailey's 1839 poem Festus, which had been slow to leave the shelves of Wilmot Henry Jones, 'the 'Manchester Moxon, the provincial poets printer'. [5] The Chartist bookbinder Benjamin Stott included a sonnet to Rose in his Songs for the millions, and other poems (1843). [6]
Eight Poems is a 1962 poetry collection by the American poet Marianne Moore, with illustrations by Robert Andrew Parker. It was published by the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. Only 195 copies were produced; each was signed by Moore and Parker. [1] Each of Moore's poems in the volume was accompanied by an image from Parker.
Lipton was 19 when he wrote the poem that was adapted into the lyrics for the 1963 song "Puff, the Magic Dragon", performed by Peter, Paul and Mary. His inspiration was a 1936 Ogden Nash poem, "The Tale of Custard the Dragon". "Pirates and dragons, back then, were common interests in stories for boys", Lipton said.
Edgar Lee Masters, Jack Kelso: A Dramatic Poem [14] Joseph Moncure March, "The Wild Party" Edna St. Vincent Millay, The Buck in the Snow [14] Dorothy Parker, Sunset Gun [14] Ezra Pound: Selected Poems, edited by T. S. Eliot, London, [15] American poet living in Europe; A Draft of the Cantos 17–27 [14] Edward Arlington Robinson, Sonnets, 1889 ...
Donald Ogden Stewart (November 30, 1894 – August 2, 1980) was an American writer and screenwriter best known for his sophisticated golden age comedies and melodramas such as The Philadelphia Story (based on the play by Philip Barry), Tarnished Lady and Love Affair.
Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle is a 1994 American biographical drama film directed by Alan Rudolph from a screenplay written by Rudolph and Randy Sue Coburn. The film stars Jennifer Jason Leigh as writer Dorothy Parker and depicts the members of the Algonquin Round Table, a group of writers, actors and critics who met almost every weekday from 1919 to 1929 at Manhattan's Algonquin Hotel.
The Penguin Dorothy Parker by Dorothy Parker: Bed: more: 22 August 1981: Paul Eddington: Experiences of an Irish R.M. by Martin Ross: Boathouse at Dawn by Ivon Hitchens: more: 29 August 1981: Frank Oz: Complete works by Emily Dickinson: Clean sheets: more: 5 September 1981: Alan Jones: Eagle in the Sky by Wilbur Smith: Australian lager: more ...