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Excelsior! This motto applies to folks who dwell In Richmond Hill or in New Rochelle, In Chelsea or In Sutton Place. "Excelsior" also became a trade name for wood shavings used as packing material or furniture stuffing. In Bullwinkle's Corner, Bullwinkle the Moose parodies the poem in Season 2 Episode 18 (1960–61) of The Rocky and Bullwinkle ...
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 Recordings, a record label from the Netherlands; Excelsior Brass Band, an 1879-1931 brass band from New Orleans "Excelsior", a setting of Longfellow's poem to music by Michael William Balfe
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 characters telling the stories ...
An illustrated version of this poem is contained in Fables for Our Time and Famous Poems Illustrated by James Thurber (1940). The poem is mentioned by author Antonia White in her autobiography As Once in May. As a child she read it repeatedly until she knew it by heart. A parody poem Towser shall be Tied Tonight was written by Anonymous. Set in ...
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 ]
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.
His literary reputation was first made by a flair for parody, in a column Imaginary Speeches in The New Age from 1909. His poetry from World War I was satirical; at the time he was reviewing for the New Statesman , using the name Solomon Eagle (taken from a Quaker of the seventeenth century) – one of his reviews from 1915 was of The Rainbow ...