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E.E. Cummings, or ee cummings, if you prefer -- he didnt care much either way from what Ive read, was influenced early on by the Imagist|Imagists howe...

Lodore (1835), and  History of a Six Weeks’ Tour (1817). Who were Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’s parents? Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’s father was William Godwin, a noted social philosopher, political journalist, and religious Dissenter, and her mother was Mary Wollstonecraft, a writer and passionate advocate of educational and social equality for women. When was Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley married? Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (née Godwin) met the young poet Percy Bysshe Shelle...

Remembering Anthony Thwaite New Statesman literary editor, who has died at the age of 90. The poet Anthony Thwaite – who was in his day a university lecturer, a radio producer and one of Philip Larkin’s  literary executors – has died at the age of 90 in a nursing home in his beloved Norfolk. He was the literary editor of this magazine, from 1967 until 1972, though film, theatre and music were also in his purview. The “back half” pages of the magazine under his tenure remain an exc...

John Wieners photographed in Detroit, Mich., in 1966. (Photo by Leni Sinclair / Getty Images) During the last three decades of his life, the poet John Wieners lived in a one-bedroom walkup at 44 Joy Street, on the back side of Boston’s Beacon Hill. By some accounts it was a drab, minimalist apartment, furnished with wicker patio chairs and decorated with Wieners’s own collages of travel brochures and movie magazines. The refrigerator was empty and unplugged. After he won a fellowship from...

Philip Larkin statue placed on secret racism reviews list following Black Lives Matter protests  Poet cited on secret list of major statues of concern by Hull City Council over comments made in his published letters 6 March 2021 • 5:00pm Poet Philip Larkin, who died in 1985, was honoured with a statue in Hull in 2010 Credit: Radio Times via Getty Images Poet Philip Larkin has been cited in a secret racism review carried out by a council after officials admitted they could not be seen to be d...

Introducing BA Santamaria[1] “Sometimes depicted as a man totally dedicated to principle, even perhaps despite consequences, he emerges…rather as an agile political pragmatist reformulating theory to suit the purpose at hand… “[Santamaria’s] driving will is the explanatory key which allows us to see our intrepid anti-communist crusader not so much as a grand conspirator, but as a tragic figure in the classic sense, whose own indomitable will and imagination betrayed him, seducing him ...

January 11, 2021 By Liz Fields Laura Ingalls Wilder may have poured out her life story into the pages of her “Little House” books, but she was a woman who kept secrets. One of the biggest was her working partnership with daughter Rose Wilder Lane, which for whatever reason, the women chose to keep hidden from the world. The collaboration was only confirmed years later by historians combing through a trove of letters between the two. The correspondence not only revealed the extent of Lane’...

  Over the course of a nearly sixty-year career, Norman Mailer wrote more than 30 novels, essay collections, and nonfiction books. Yet nowhere was he more prolific or more exposed than in his letters. All told, Mailer crafted more than 45,000 pieces of correspondence (approximately 20 million words), many of them deeply personal, keeping a copy of almost every one. Now the best of these are published most for the first time in one remarkable volume that spans seven decades and, it seems, seve...

HomeOpinionBritish monk committed suicide 55 years ago, suffered from Satyriasis British monk committed suicide 55 years ago, suffered from Satyriasis 21 December 2020 03:34 am - 1     Reading Ravi Nagahawatte’s well crafted description [December 17] titled, “Was Ven. Jinawamsa ready for lessons on impermanence?”, prompted me to recollect memories of Ven. Nanavira of Bundala, Hambantota, who committed suicide in 1965. What is Satyriasis? Medical dictionaries define Satyriasis as a ...

7 local authors on unwrapping the perfect books By Kate Tuttle Globe Correspondent,Updated December 17, 2020, 2:55 p.m. Email to a Friend DAVID WILSON FOR THE BOSTON GLOBE (Custom credit) Maybe you know someone who needs just the right thing to read over the holidays. Maybe you want to mark a special occasion with a memorable keepsake. At times like these, there is nothing quite like a book. This week we asked authors from around the region to reflect on times when the perfect books came into t...