Word: byronic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plays-one of which makes its American debut on the Agassiz House stage-share twin billing in the spring program lined up by Radcliffe's Idler Players. Patricia Troxell '49, president of the Annex experimental theater group, announced this week that Tennessee Williams' "Lord Byron's Love Letter" and Christopher Fay's "Phoenix Too Frequent" will be produced at the Annex next month...
...indeed an honor. J. Edgar Hoover and Byron Price were offered honorary knighthoods by George VI for their wartime services-Hoover as FBI chief, Price as Director of Censorship. Price could now call himself an Honorary Knight Commander of the Civil Division of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire...
...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...
...least bit peculiar, at that. Germany's Schiller whetted his inspiration by keeping rotten apples in his writing table drawer. Charlotte Brontë often mooned about the house for months without being able to put pen to paper. Milton could write only between October and March; Balzac, Byron, Dostoevsky and Conrad, only at night...
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...