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...group, the 32 poets were remarkably hardy: ten lived to be over 70; only four died before 40. Of these four, Shelley was drowned and Marlowe killed in a tavern brawl, Keats died (at 26) of tuberculosis, and Byron of an unspecified disease (from his symptoms, diagnosticians now suspect typhoid or malaria...
Most Britons, as Lord Byron once put it, "till by losing rendered sager, will back their own opinions by a wager." Some have even been known to back their wagers by some sage manipulation, like doping a horse or marking cards...
...been a poetry teacher himself.* In his chapter in a new symposium, The Teaching of English in Schools (Macmillan & Co. Ltd., London), Strong distinguishes six common deficiencies in poetry teachers: The teacher dislikes poetry. "A great deal of the current British hostility to poetry dates from the careers of Byron and Shelley, reinforced by that of Oscar Wilde, which have connected it with effeminacy, goings-on, incapacity for sport...
...turns out, she is a bit too young and imperious for the job. Sister Briony (Judith Furse) is taken along for her medical knowledge. Sister Honey (Jenny Laird) is a gentle creature, a tonic for jangled nerves. Sister Philippa (Flora Robson) is responsible for the garden. Sister Ruth (Kathleen Byron) is a jagged-voiced, quarrelsome neurotic; it is hoped that the drastic change of surroundings will do her good...
Beneath such stark dedication, not much of common humanity is visible. Gromyko reads mostly books on economics, though he once admitted that he likes Lord Byron (because he had a "social consciousness"). Gromyko drinks little, eats moderately. He plays some chess, some volleyball. Muffled reports say that he collects stamps. His buxom wife, Lidiya. has borne him a son, Anatoli, 15, and a daughter, Emiliya, 9. Whatever time he can spare (which is not much), he spends with his family. The story goes that when a newsman once called his home, Gromyko's daughter answered the telephone. The newsman asked...