(TV) Goethe's "Praire Rose" (slightly on Topic)

["Casey, Leo J" <CaseyL@VOLPE.DOT.GOV>]

Years ago when I lived in a commune in Brookline, MA I was 
constantly quoting lines from Roxy Music/Bryan Ferry songs. 

One of the other guys in the house, hearing me one day brought 
to my attention that "Prairie Rose" [see Roxy's album Country 
Life---the one with the controversial cover] was the title of 
a poem by Goethe.

TV connection: maybe Ferry,whom Verlaine claimed 'stole' lyrics 
(e.g., "Chirp, chirp") and melodic ideas from Television in 1970s,
'borrowed' from Goethe.

	Leo 

PS: Anyone remember reading when they were a 
youngster Classics Illustrated Comic Books.

I had one of Goethe's "Faust" that had great art/cartoon 
paneling work (of course they compressed his prose 
into 25 pages)! 


-----Original Message-----
From: Maurice Rickard 
Sent: Friday, September 27, 2002 3:55 PM
To: tv@obbard.com
Subject: RE: (TV) TV Exposing Stories? / Alyler / Architecture quote

At 2:45 PM -0500 9/27/02, Dever, Paul (ELS) wrote:
>I defer to Maurice and Bartlett!
>
>Maybe Goethe stole it from von Schelling . . .

Note that the von Schelling quotation is somewhat more, um, clunky 
than the more popularly known version.  It seems entirely possible 
that Goethe read it, liked it, and sanded the rough edges off of it, 
so that it became the more elegant quip we know today.

-M
-- 
Maurice Rickard

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