Word: tragic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Even the title of Robinson's latest poem has a tragic irony. Nightingale is the name of the piece's villain; the glory of the Nightingales comes to a sad end. As the poem opens, middleaged, destitute, half-starved Malory, onetime bacteriologist, now a tramp, is walking country roads towards the town of Sharon, on his way to an act he thinks Fate requires of him. In his pocket is the infinite wealth of a revolver. He is going to kill Nightingale, once his best friend, his onetime rival in love, his onetime benefactor, then his ruin...
Declared Jeann Friedman, tailor to New York's natty Mayor James John ("Jimmy") Walker: "I made the Mayor 30 suits a year and never did I see a turnout like that! Why, that's tragic...
...history is grave noble and tragic...
...believe the curve of the hyperbole strives - just so! to join with its asymptote, and strives in vain; and I believe that if the geometrician were to be conscious of his hopeless and desperate striving ... he would represent the hyperbole to us as a living being and a tragic one. I believe in the tragedy (in the romance) of the binomial theorem (I am not so sure that Newton saw it)." The novels (short stories) in this book are not exemplary in the conventional moral sense, but examples of tragic human characters, tragic situations. The two daughters of a grim...
Other books: The Tragic Sense of Life, The Agony of Christianity, Mist, Essays and Soliloquies...