Word: poe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Singer's reading went beyond what was prescribed. He studied Spinoza, and still remembers many passages by heart. He read the Continental classics; "I read your Jack London in Yiddish and Poe in Polish." He has translated many Western classics into Yiddish, most recently Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain...
...wondered, in another story, whether the "A" of adultery might not stand for admirable. Williams is full of similar moral ambivalence. His oppressive, superheated tropics are Poe's "ghoul-haunted woodland of Weir," and his characters some times seem like Poe's spectral phantoms of a locked-in ego, walking somnambulically to their dooms. Williams shares Melville's somber cosmic dread. It was of the Encantadas, the desolate islands of the Galapagos, that Melville wrote: "In no world but a fallen one could such lands exist." And it is "on the beach of the Encantadas" that Sebastian...
...Poe in The Business Man and Melville in The Confidence Man aimed scathing, satirical barbs at the rising commercial spirit of the 19th century. Williams finds an ethical void at the heart of urban industrial civilization and poses against it the values-the honor, gallantry and chivalry-of the dead agrarian Southern past. "Let there be something to mean the word honor again," pleads Don Quixote in Camino Real...
During that convalescence, Mrs. Williams read to him constantly: "We used up all the children's books, and I had to turn to Scott, Thackeray, Dickens." Tom's grandfather, who knew Milton's Paradise Lost by heart, recited poetry to him. "Grandfather was crazy about Poe. He was interested in the macabre," says Williams...
Black Despair. Like his father, Yesenin-Volpin is a natural anarchist. "Only a morally and mentally defective person can fail to reach a stage of extreme indignation in the Soviet Union," he wrote. Yesenin-Volpin expressed his sense of outrage in a parody of Poe...