Word: poe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Poe. The plea was made by Dr. Charles Lee Buxton, 56. chairman of the department of obstetrics and gynecology at Yale University and of the obstetric services at Grace-New Haven Community Hospital. He made his case by citing the plights of two of his patients, pseudonymously listed as Mrs. Doe and Mrs. Poe...
...also are conscious self- a sewerful of unconscious Poe's "Eulalie"'. "I dwelt a world of moan, And my was a stagnant tide, Till the gentle Eulalie became my bride." Of these I on Macaulay most: to Spain and saw only disguised and increased , dominions of vast bulk strength, tempting, un, and defenseless, an empty ry, a sullen and torpid nation, on the throne, factions on the council, ministers who served only themselves, and soldiers who were terrible only to their countrymen, Men looked to France, and saw a large and compact territory, a rich soil, a central situation...
...certain medals, all of which he insists on explaining. Duc has been decorated for being in and out of Communism (like Author Vailland), in the French underground, and on and off heroin. Women call for special citations. The Hemingway heroine derives from the spectral ladies of Poe. The sleeping bag is a kind of tomb. In a catatonic trance, Lucie does Duc's bidding. "Am I to undress? That's what I came for. Isn't that what you brought...
...Stuffed Owl (title taken from a wonderfully woeful Wordsworth poem of the same name), an Anthology of Bad Verse published in 1930. He was dispirited by the six-volume collection of parody published in the 1880s, which contained 86 versions of Gray's Elegy, 60 versions of Poe's The Raven, and 21 of The Charge of the Light Brigade. He has learned that the greatest are beyond parody: Shakespeare was himself a master parodist (of Nashe, Marlowe, Lyly), but no one ever capped that starry-pointing pyramid, though Shaw and Nigel Dennis have notably tried...
Lockspeiser, who has written a biography of Debussy, said "his life-long obsession" with the writings of Poe influenced the "musical psychology" of his works, especially Peleas et Mellgande, La Cathedrale Engloutle and La. Mer. Poe's fascination with dreams and sexual symbolism cast a "subtle and profound influence over his works," and two of them, The Devil in the Belfry and The Fall of the House of Usher, so affected the composer that he used them as the basis of two never-completed operas...