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...other books are "The Quest for Permanence: the Symbolism of Wordsworth, Shelley, and Keats" (1959), "Wordsworth and the Poetry of Sincerity" (1964), and "English Romantic Writers...
...given by "Doctor D.", a professor of English Literature at a nearby college. He explained that the family was unified by a common goal; to help and care for all people. His lecture was not as straight-forward: he filled it with psychology and sociology and threw in some Wordsworth and Eliot quotes that I remembered from English 10. He seemed to be a nice guy and since I had read a little psych, it seemed sound to me. Yeah, these were the people I'd been looking for--intelligent, personal, and liberal...
Lean, tireless, dapper and serenely poised, Parsky was born in Connecticut, graduated from Princeton, and was for a time an English teacher (he still unwinds by reading Wordsworth and Keats). He later became a corporate securities lawyer and then a middle-level Treasury official. He left that post in 1973 for the Federal Energy Office, then headed by Simon, where he established himself as a crack coordinator and credible witness in congressional hearings. When Simon became Treasury Secretary, he tailored a new job especially for Parsky. Among other things, Parsky is charged with developing policies to muffle the impact...
...companies quickly imitated. Ives himself wrote the firm's sales handbook The Amount to Carry-Measuring the Prospect. It became a Bible of the industry. His memos to his agents were low in sales talk and high in a thoughtful style worthy of the Concord philosophers. Example: "When Wordsworth said that he could write like Shakespeare if he had a mind to, Charles Lamb replied: 'Yes-the mind is the only thing lacking'... So if [the agent] cannot increase his business in 1916 it will be because 'the mind is lacking...
...Algonquin Indian myth. In his latest offering, Napoleon Symphony, the author, who is also a serious composer, has reached for everything from kazoos to pipe organs. The result is a mock epic about the career of Napoleon Bonaparte that sometimes reads like Dickens, sometimes like Tennyson and Wordsworth, with an occasional gash of Gerard Manley Hopkins' gold-vermilion. "The last section of the book is written in the style of Henry James," Burgess explains without a trace of solemnity, "because Henry James believed he was Napoleon when he was dying...