Appealing to the lazywebs
1 October 2006 03:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
larryhammerI'm looking for a poem I read some years ago -- a 1930's parody of Marlowe's "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love" in which a dockyard worker tempts the nymph with the delights of Depression-era working class life. Same first line, but I can't remember any phrases from it. I want to say it was written by one of Auden's friends, either Day-Lewis or Spender (I'm pretty sure not MacNeice), but my memory also insists that it's in an anthology of parody/light verse I own, and yet I can't find it -- not even in The Brand-X Anthology of Poetry.
Anyone know this poem and where I can find it? Or at least can confirm it's real?
ETA: Five minutes after finally posting, I manage to craft the right search and determine it's Day-Lewis -- and found the text on Wikipedia. In compensation, I give you Day-Lewis's grave. You can find anything on the interwebs, with the correct search terms.
---L.
Anyone know this poem and where I can find it? Or at least can confirm it's real?
ETA: Five minutes after finally posting, I manage to craft the right search and determine it's Day-Lewis -- and found the text on Wikipedia. In compensation, I give you Day-Lewis's grave. You can find anything on the interwebs, with the correct search terms.
---L.