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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
PUBLICITY MEN, by BOYCE HOUSE Poet's Biography
First Line: Does the skylark sing as gloriously as shelley says?
Last Line: And, by the way, he did a swell job, too.
Subject(s): Publicity; Public Relations; Press Agents
First Line: Does the skylark sing as gloriously as shelley says?
Last Line: And, by the way, he did a swell job, too.
Subject(s): Publicity; Public Relations; Press Agents
Does the skylark sing as gloriously as Shelley says?
And does the nightingale live up to Keats' claims?
Dexter Fellowes, with his sesquipedalian words, and the
Hollywood publicists, with their chronicles of "glamor girls" --
These are no new phenomena.
What was Homer except a press-agent for a super-star named Helen?
And, by the way, he did a swell job, too.
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