Talk:By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept

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The remarks about the title are fatuous. Saying the title "uses metre" is meaningless, not to mention uninformative. Most of the title is a very familiar quotation, except that a modern place name is substituted for the canonical "the rivers of Babylon." The resulting metre is amphibrachic if anything, not anapestic. This kind of uninformed but confident-sounding language undermines the credibility of the article. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mstarli (talk • contribs) 06:33, 23 August 2010 (UTC)

Additional references

The final line of the article reads "has been referenced many times by the British singer Morrissey." There's a book by Brazilian author Paulo Coelho by the title By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept. If anyone knows of additional references to Smart's work, maybe a "In popular culture" section could be added. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.41.130.70 (talk) 22:40, 7 December 2007 (UTC)

In furtherance to the book's title, I recall reading that it was the idea of the publisher, not of the author. I am however unable to cite the source of this snippet -- if anyone can help? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Malcolmbryant (talk • contribs) 20:50, 28 March 2015 (UTC)

Edit request

A user wrote to OTRS making this request -

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Hello Wikipedia Volunteers,

While I love and am grateful every day for the existence and accessibility of Wikipedia, I am not a contributor and don't wish to be at this time (life stuff… you know how it is). However, today I looked at the entry for the book By Grand Central Station I Sat Down And Wept, as it's just been republished 70 years after it was first released, generating a lot of online interest by new readers, and I see there's some information in there that omits relevant information, making it rather misleading.

I can't see who wrote the article (it's in the Wikipedia Book Project) or how to contact that person to request an edit, and I'm not savvy enough to figure it out. Please can you therefore make this edit or if not add it to the Talk section of the article?

This is the information about an adaptation of the book into film as it appears in the Wikipedia article now:

Additionally, the poem was adapted for the screen by Laura Lamson though the film did not come to fruition.[2]

I see that this information was taken from an obituary of Laura Lamson written by Amanda Schiff. I can't tell if Amanda Schiff wrote the entire article.

This is what I feel would be more accurate and would ask you to please substitute on my behalf:

By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept has been been of interest to filmmakers since its initial publication and several writers submitted speculative scripts to Elizabeth Smart . She rejected all entreaties until she sold the screen and ancillary rights in perpetuity to a young London-based American producer Elizabeth Taylor-Mead in 1980 . Taylor-Mead commissioned two film scripts before Elizabeth Smart's death; one from Roy Battersby and a subsequent script from Laura Lamson. Neither came to fruition. The film rights have been optioned in the intervening years but a film based on Smart's book is yet to be made.

Many thanks for your help with this matter. If I need to provide you with further information or permission, etc, please let me know.

Kind regards, Elizabeth Taylor-Mead

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Blue Rasberry (talk) 15:53, 30 July 2015 (UTC)

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i never understood this shit

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