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...days, the heroes and heroines of religious novels were "good" people who practiced what the parson preached. Nowadays, as in the novels of Graham Greene and Mauriac, the religious hero is more likely to be a fallen fellow who depends for salvation solely on the mercy of God. In his first novel, U.S. Poet Dunstan Thompson has tried to avoid both extremes...
...instance, run from ba (the soul of man in ancient Egypt) to zamia (a cycadaceous plant). The i's have such useful quickies as ai (a three-toed sloth), li (Chinese unit of measure), obi (a Japanese sash worn with a kimono) and tui (a parson bird...
...these testy quirks Parson Dodgson added a formidable string of prejudices, e.g., against ill-natured satire, preaching sermons, "bandying small talk with dull people," "jesting and flippancy on sacred topics," negligence on the part of college servants. He wrote dozens of indignant letters to the newspapers-once, at least, under the surprising pseudonym of "Dynamite." A staunch Tory, he liked nothing better than to lie awake making corrosive anagrams on the detested name of Liberal William Ewart Gladstone, e.g., "Wild agitator! Means well...
PORTRAITS OF KEATS (189 pp.)−Don-ald Parson−World...
Maine's Donald Parson has taken up the question of just what Keats looked like. According to his contemporaries, he was just over 5 ft. tall, well-proportioned, with a face, as his friend Leigh Hunt put it, "in which energy and sensibility were remarkably mixed up." None of Keats's portraitists, however, could quite agree on how the energy and sensibility should be depicted. Some sincerely meant likenesses looked as caricaturish as the unflattering version by one of Keats's London acquaintances, the aging poet-artist, William Blake, who wrote, after making...