Word: colley
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Antipodes in the early years of the 19th century, concludes the private journal he has been keeping for his godfather and patron back home. Talbot's shipboard jottings have coalesced into the remarkable story he witnesses at sea: the long scapegoating and mysterious death of Robert James Colley, an Anglican clergyman...
...Swift's Description of the Morning and his Verses On The Death Of Doctor Swift. There are generous selections from Mathew Prior, Isaac Watts, John Gay, Thomas Gray, Oliver Goldsmith, Christopher Smart, Robert Burns, and William Blake, and an appropriately limited one from that misplaced Poet Laureate Colley Cibber. Lonsdale has often embellished Smith's selections from deserving poets like William Cowper and the dazzling and vitriolic Charles Churchill...
Dissatisfied as they are almost none of the characters leave the home turf of West Virginia. In "Trilobites," one of the finest stories the young man Colley is tempted to wander, to Michigan or may be even Germany or China. His father has died: his mother wants to sell the farm ("about the last real farm left") and move north: and he is no good at farming anyway. But he is held by the past his own past and the palpable history of the country he knows so well. When Colley thinks of leaving he sees "the spot of ground...
...this and in most of the stories. Pancake deftly integrates meaning and feeling into physical sensations and images. At one point Colley listens to a real estate agent convincing his mother to sell the farm. Just returned from hunting turtle in one of the creeks on his land. He tells us that the smell of turtle has soaked between his fingers and that "it's the same smell as the pools. "We see that the land and nature of his home have soaked too deeply into his being for him to leave easily...
...close. The district's congressional seat has been in Republican hands for 20 years, but that has been largely due to the popularity of Representative J. William Stanton, 58, who is retiring because of poor health. Registered Democrats outnumber Republicans 34% to 21%. Says State Republican Chairman Michael Colley: "It's a horse race...