5/19/2023 0 Comments Archy and mehitabel quotes![]() Bob Hicks, writing in the Ashland Report, says: I hope to reprint a few more over the next month to highlight Marquis’s craft and talent, as well as his take on some social issues that are still with us. I believe all are now in the public domain. I checked the originals to make sure the poems were both complete and had the proper spacing. Archy Confesses was copied from Poem du Jour. The Old Trouper was copied from The Crushed Tragedian‘s blog site, Pete the Parrot from. ![]() He must be grateful that he is being lynchedĪll three poems appear in his first collection, “ archy & mehitabel,” published in 1927, in the omnibus collection of his three books, “ the life and times of archy and mehitabel,” (Doubleday Doran, 1935) and in The Best of Archy and Mehitabel (Everyman’s Library, 2011), but none appear in The Annotated Archy and Mehitabel (Penguin Classics, 2006). In another example, archy writes scathingly: As H2G2 notes about the era, “Racism, jingoism and simple desperation were endemic throughout most of the world.” I don’t believe Marquis was himself a racist, but rather that he used archy to comment ironically on racism and other social ills of his day throughout his career, as he does here. I have run into similar wording in some of the sheet music I’ve collected from the 1920s. You also find in “pete the parrot” what would today be politically incorrect or even racially offensive wording. It’s interesting that while they appear odd at first read, you quickly become accustomed to the style and learn to read them quickly, despite the lack of punctuation and capitals. More information was posted in my previous blog piece about Marquis and his characters. They are indicative of his style and show both free and rhyming verse. The poems by Don Marquis were written between 19.
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