Word: dickinson
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Subtle Moments. What binds the second family to the Finzi-Continis, besides Jewishness and passivity, is their son Giorgio's infatuation with young Micol Finzi-Contini. He longs for her as a Fitzgerald hero might long for some always unattainable girl. Micol, who studies Emily Dickinson ("an old maid like me"), keeps Giorgio at a delicate distance, tantalizing him, finally turning him into a voyeur...
...great big grant for Victor Jones, And for the MCZ, some bones; An insect necktie for Williams, Carroll For Douglas Bryant, a Widener Carrel. And we'll relive the Battle of the Boyne again Led by Daniel Patrick Moynihan. And could we forget, at this gladsome Yule Emily Dickinson Townsend Vermeule? Courteousely our hats we'll doff, then. For Kenneth and for Stanley Hoffmann. Free, Moira, yes. And flee, Thanatos! While we drink to James Yannatos. A nice new Bible would be For Peter and Charles P. Price, loast Muhammed Ali, and his awesome fight skill, Then drink a skoal...
...fully expressed in just reading poetry or listening to poets reading on phonograph records. He decided to take the plumbing out of his house and completely replace it with poetry, and so he did." The poetry of John Donne replaced the pipes, Shakespeare the bathtub and Emily Dickinson the kitchen sink. The minor poets replaced the toilet. Then the lover of good verse ran into some trouble. When he went to the toilet the minor poets began gossiping about their careers. He decided that the poetry simply wouldn't do as plumbing but it refused to be replaced...
...Ingersoll Lecture at Harvard, Lowes Dickinson inquired "Is immortality desirable?" Ferris Greenslet, a biographer of the Lowells, has stated that he almost thought it was, if only to get at the truth of the Sacco-Vanzetti case...
...Cody takes Emily Dickinson's biographers, and there is a profusion of them, to task for their inexactness, their apologies, their kitchen table psychology, and mainly for reading into her life what they wanted from her, and not what was there. Biography stands firm when it simply chronicles a person's life. But, the urge for non-professionals to interpret behavior is irresistible...