Individuals >> Fawcett, Edgar
Fawcett is mentioned in an article from the Brooklyn Eagle during the 1880s as the author of a poem about Pfaff's "wherein he is supposed to lament the worldly success that separates him from his old friends" ("Bohemianism" 9). The poem includes the following stanza:
Before I was famous I used to sit
In a dull old underground room I know,
And sip cheap beer, and be glad for it,
With a wild Bohemian friend or two. ("Bohemianism" 9).
References & Biographical Resources
- G. J. M. "Bohemianism: The American Authors Who Met in a Cellar." Brooklyn Eagle. 25 May 1884: 9. [more about this work]
- A poem by Fawcett "wherein he is supposed to lament the worldly success that separates him from his old friends" at Pfaff's is included with this article. Fawcett's poem mentions three Pfaffians in particular, "artist George," "splenetic journalistic Fred," and "dreamy Frank," which may refer to George Henry Boughton, Charles Frederick Briggs, and either Frank Goodrich, Frank Forester, Franklin J. Ottarson, or Frank Wood. [pages: 9]
