Songs of Wall Street: An Anthology of Verse for Literary Investors FROM THE PUBLISHER
You're making deals. You're watching the market. You're on the go. Who has time to wonder what the heck Robert Browning or Emily Dickinson meant when they wrote their antiquated nine-teenth-century verse? In his long-awaited Songs of Wall Street, distinguished scholar Michael Silverstein translates masterpieces of English poetry into a market-savvy language that today's investors can readily understand.
FROM THE CRITICS
Publishers Weekly
"When young day trader stoops to folly,/ And finds the Internet betrays,/ Will cokes and donuts make him jolly?/ Will Fritos keep the tears away?" asks Michael Silverstein in his (now slightly dated) takeoff on Oliver Goldsmith's "Woman." Songs of Wall Street: An Anthology of Verse for Literary Investors makes New Economized spoofs of work by 49 poets, from the Elizabethans to mystics, Romantics and English and American Victorians. Christina Rossetti's "When I Am Dead, My Dearest" becomes "What I most dread, dear client,/ Is that you will depart;// ...I shan't then get my fees;/ I shan't then buy a Hampton house/ My trophy wife, to please." Those fees are already long gone. (July) Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.
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