Thomas Parke D'Invilliers is both a pen name of

Francis Scott Fitzgerald Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (September 24, 1896 – December 21, 1940) was an American novelist, essayist, and short story writer. He is best known for his novels depicting the flamboyance and excess of the Jazz Age—a term he popularize ...

and a character in his quasi-autobiographical first novel, ''

This Side Of Paradise ''This Side of Paradise'' is the debut novel by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald, published in 1920. It examines the lives and morality of carefree American youth at the dawn of the Jazz Age. Its protagonist, Amory Blaine, is an attractive ...

''. In the novel, which is more or less a

roman à clef ''Roman à clef'' (, anglicised as ), French for ''novel with a key'', is a novel about real-life events that is overlaid with a façade of fiction. The fictitious names in the novel represent real people, and the "key" is the relationship be ...

, D'Invilliers represents the poet

John Peale Bishop John Peale Bishop (May 21, 1892 – April 4, 1944) was an American poet and man of letters. Biography Bishop was born in Charles Town, West Virginia, to a family from New England, and attended school in Hagerstown, Maryland and Mercersburg Acade ...

, a friend of Fitzgerald's at Princeton and a member of the 1917 class. The epigraph for Fitzgerald's ''

The Great Gatsby ''The Great Gatsby'' is a 1925 novel by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. Set in the Jazz Age on Long Island, near New York City, the novel depicts first-person narrator Nick Carraway's interactions with mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby ...

'' features a poem ostensibly by D'Invilliers called ''Then Wear the Gold Hat''. : Then wear the gold hat, if that will move her; : If you can bounce high, bounce for her too, : Till she cry “Lover, gold-hatted, high-bouncing lover, : I must have you!”

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''Then Wear the Gold Hat''
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