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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 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
Also apophthegm. A terse, pithy saying, akin to a proverb, maxim, or aphorism. aposiopesis A rhetorical device in which speech is broken off abruptly and the sentence is left unfinished. apostrophe A figure of speech in which a speaker breaks off from addressing the audience (e.g., in a play) and directs speech to a third party such as an opposing litigant or some other individual, sometimes ...
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 ...
Alfred Edward Housman (/ ˈ h aʊ s m ən /; 26 March 1859 – 30 April 1936) was an English classical scholar and poet. He showed early promise as a student at the University of Oxford, but he failed his final examination in literae humaniores and took employment as a patent examiner in London in 1882.
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.