Word: doggerel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stay at Columbia College in Eugene. Ore. lasted only three months and no records survived, but Joaquin always said that he was valedictorian of his class. He soon added horse-stealing, jail-breaking, and pony express riding to his postgraduate skills. Already writing doggerel himself, he was bowled over by the newspaper poems of one Minnie Myrtle, "Sweet Singer of the Coquille." Joaquin met, wooed and won Minnie in three days...
There is strong internal evidence that one of these books, And I Learn About People, was actually written by a cocker spaniel named Delmar W. Beman Sr. The author writes as a dog, in the first person, sometimes even breaks into doggerel. Sample verses to a watchdog: Watching o'er one's mind and soul, / Watching o'er one's kin and friend, / Make time and living worth the while, / Breed strength and sureness / And warmness of smile...
...lover, sings out: "Who am I?-I am a poet ... In poverty I yet indulge myself like a Grand Seigneur in rhymes . . ." When Richard Tucker sings those lines he can partly mean them: in his eight years at the Metropolitan Opera, he has been privately amusing himself by writing doggerel. Last week Tucker gave out some samples...
...good sign. This country was raised on whisky. Anyone who can't stand to see a little whisky, there's something wrong with them." At week's end the Battle of the Bottle was still unresolved; while waiting for a decision Denver chanted a bit of doggerel supplied for the occasion by the Rocky Mountain News...
...story, told in doggerel verse against a background of music, makes hardly more sense as fantasy than as realism. Conceivably the doggerel expresses the rubbishy lives of the modern London sophisticates, while the hovering music symbolizes the lost world of poetry. But the actual effect is that of an oldtime, trashy silent movie, with the pianist dishing out lachrymose Tchaikovsky. Chatterton may have deserved a second life; this play about...