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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 ...
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
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 ]
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 ...
Most of these poems parody the style ("chatty comfortable rhymes" that were "the delight of the enlightened bourgeois of the day") and form (alexandrine couplets arranged in ten line verses) of some short poems by Coppée. [7] Rimbaud published them under the name François Coppée. [8]
Critics have seen the story as a parody of such genres as the epic, the romance, and the saint's life. [1] "Few Old French genres escape parody in this concise literary encyclopedia." [1] For example, the theme of distant love (amor de lonh), common in Provençal poetry, is reversed: the lady dresses up as a troubadour and seeks out her beloved ...
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But Núñez de Arce's talent was more lyrical than dramatic, and his celebrity dates from the appearance of Gritos del combate (1875), a collection of poems exhorting Spaniards to lay aside domestic quarrels and to save their country from anarchy, more dangerous than a foreign foe.