Who wrote "The Picture of Little T. C. in a Prospect of Flowers"?

Who wrote "The Picture of Little T. C. in a Prospect of Flowers" (and if you haven't read it, here's a link)?

a) Andrew Marvell
b) John Ashbery
c) Marvelous Marv Throneberry
d) Andrew Jackson
3) Percy Bysshe Shelley
e) The Merry Widow
f) Barbara Stanwyck

Follow the links for the right answer. Bonus: Someone on this list who did not write the poem in question wrote a poem with a very similar title! The first person to name the poet and give the correct title of the poem will be absolutely right. -- DL

Comments

[Antonio Kubek]

Barbara Stanwyck. She played Andrew Marvell in the great spy movie, GETTING HIGH ON THE ERNEST AND JULIO GALLOWS. The poem was written by screenwriter, John Milton Berle, and Stanwyck spoke the poem in an impassioned plea not to be executed for spying. When that didn't work, she shouted, "I want to live!"--which became the inspiration for the 1958 Robert Wise-Mann film, starring Susan Wayward, who won an Oscar Meyer wiener for her performance. A still-young John Ashbery was so moved by that film, which he saw in Paris with subtitles, that he wrote "The Picture of Little J.A. in a Prospect of Flowers" without knowing the Barbara Stanwyck-Andrew Marvell connection. In fact, Mr. Ashbery HAD NEVER EVEN KNOWN ABOUT ANDREW MARVELL, until many years later, when a theorist commented on the similarities in the title.

[The Best American Poetry]

Totally correct in every particular, "my" Antonio. -- DL