“A Pigs-Eye View of Literature” by Dorothy Parker March 23, 2008
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Byron and Shelley and Keats
Were a trio of Lyrical treats.
The forehead of Shelley was cluttered with curls,
And Keats never was a descendant of earls,
And Byron walked out with a number of girls,
But it didn’t impair the poetical feats
Of Byron and Shelley,
Of Byron and Shelley,
Of Byron and Shelley and Keats
I’ne always admired Dorothy Parker greatly. I remember one night at the Algonquin, Harpo Marx had just…
I like the line Parker uttered when she visited Fitzgerald’s remains at a Culver City funeral home.
Poor sonofabitch
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You have me at a disadvantage and in suspense, do tell,
No, “Poor Sonofabitch” is what Parker said of Fitzgerald.
Further on the topic:
http://8763wonderland.wordpress.com/2006/05/07/poor-sonofabitch/
Cool, that’s a multilevel story, the Fitsgerald’s are a fabulous story. This whole age was glorious in a way, a zenith of a certain idea that faded into the drabness of war, oh well, cycles, (oh by the way, you can disable pingbacks if you don’t want that autocomment from my link)
I don’t mind the pingback, Paul, as it might send some traffic in your direction.
Yeah, the so-called Lost Generation that the Fitzgeralds belonged to had World War I in the not-too-distant past and, looming ahead, the Stock Market Crash of 1929, the Great Depression, and World War II. Good times.
That made me smile. Clever little poem. =)