Word: musee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this sensitive evocation of adolescence, which its author considers her best verse, Phyllis McGinley's daughter Julie was the model. The McGinley muse, albeit a distant traveler, alights most often on the ordinary landscapes of motherhood and domesticity-the only two professions that consistently outrank the poet. Since the 1930s, Housewife Hayden has been singing the substantial pleasures of the hearth, and contentedly reminding herself...
Even so, it was on campus that the giddy prom trotter's brainy side began to show. For as far back as she could remember, the muse had been coaxing her thoughts toward verse, most of it not much better than her first quatrain, composed...
...summoned her to the office, brandished a copy of The New Yorker with a McGinley poem in it, and confided the hope that this moonlighting would not interfere with her classroom commitments. At the end of the year, the schoolteacher decided not to let classroom commitments hobble her muse. She resigned...
...Untidy Muse. This book makes no more sense than the king's English, but it projects the same fey charm. It is no longer than a summer's reverie in an aluminum chaise longue, where it was clearly designed to be read. Its gossamer plot drifts like a cloud; its characters have all the substantiality of that scarlet flash in the lilac bush that may have been a hummingbird. What delicate diplomatic mission has brought Bemis to Suruk? Why does Sajjid offer him $1,000,000 to come, and why does Bemis refuse the fee? For what reason...
...world will not stop spinning to hear the answers. It had better not, because Author Connelly's untidy muse has not bothered to tie up every loose end. Characters muster on whim, and for the same reason dissolve like smoke; promising bends in the plot lead nowhere at all, like garden paths. This should bother no one but the literal-minded reader, who is seldom found in a chaise longue anyway...