Word: doggerel
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Answers to many questions about this enigmatic bard lie in the pages of Souvenirs and Prophecies, a commingling of diaries, early writings and annotations by Stevens' daughter Holly. Here is the Harvard undergraduate, scribbling doggerel fit for a greeting card: "Long lines of coral light/ And evening star,/ One shade that leads the night/ On from afar...
...this: he is the champion and he is locked into a style. He turned professional during the last days of Dwight Eisenhower's Administration, and he has fought well, sometimes brilliantly, through five presidencies. Young, he was Cassius Clay, the "Louisville Lip," establishing himself with his fists, his doggerel and his outrageous predictions. Now, four months away from his 35th birthday, he is Muhammad, the Muslim minister, pledged to peace and God. But he is also a great ticket salesman. If vulgarity sells tickets...
Every morning for the past three months, Seychelles islanders tuning in the country's only radio station have heard an imposing roll of kettledrums and the recitation of a proud though singularly infelicitous piece of doggerel: "Independence is a sheet of virgin snow/ On which our footsteps will surely show...
...transparent. But the need for protective secrecy on behalf of the "King's Friends" in the New World is dramatic enough. By now, the harassing of known Loyalists?an estimated 15% of the population?has reached a point that might best be described by a bit of tavern-house doggerel: "Tories with their brats and wives Should fly to save their wretched lives...
...sheaves of contradictions from Raymond Chandler's long but unprolific career. His colloquial American fiction was written by a snob trained in an English public school and weaned on Latin and Greek. The disabuse Marlowe was the polar opposite of his creator, a sentimentalist who liked to write doggerel about "brief butterfly hours." Marlowe was surrounded by young ladies of wondrously easy virtue; Chandler adored his mother and married a woman 20 years his senior. Marlowe never had a pedestrian afternoon; Chandler was a preoccupied oil company executive until a combination of personal and economic depressions forced...