User talk:Joe Kress

Desiderata
Dates are publication dates of the specific edition presented, not the date of composition of the work. --EncycloPetey (talk) 01:20, 26 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Then 1927 is also wrong because that is the date the work was copyrighted via its first phrase "Go placidly amid the noise and the haste, etc." It was not published until 1948 by Ehrmann's widow under the title "Desiderata". Furthermore, she published it as one long paragraph, not partitioned into stanzas. A photocopy of this first publication is in Desiderata under "Desiderata Original Text". I do not know when it was broken into stanzas. — (talk) 02:11, 27 January 2019 (UTC)
 * I've looked at the Wikipedia article, which seems to cover the legal status more than the poem itself. What we'd need to determine is the date our copy was printed/published/distributed, or else find a scan with known date and adjust our text to match the source copy we find. --EncycloPetey (talk) 02:30, 27 January 2019 (UTC)
 * We can already do the second option because we have the text as it was originally published in 1948. — (talk) 02:41, 27 January 2019 (UTC)