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Shelley is truth itself and honour itself notwithstanding his out-of-the-way notions about religion.
Lord Byron
Truth
Religion
Honour
About
Shelley
His
Itself
Notions
Notwithstanding
When I first started out, 'Time' magazine did an article on what it called 'the sick comics,' and they were myself, Shelley Berman, Nichols & May, Jonathan Winters, Lenny Bruce, and Mort Sahl. We were considered 'sick.'
Bob Newhart
Time
Myself
First
Sick
Considered
Out
Magazine
Bruce
Winters
Jonathan
Shelley
Comics
Were
Article
Did
May
Lenny
Lenny Bruce
Started
One futuristic novel that had a huge impact on me was Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein,' which is kind of science fiction plus Gothic.
Jennifer Egan
Me
Science
Frankenstein
Kind
Futuristic
Impact
Plus
Mary
Had
Science Fiction
Shelley
Gothic
Huge
Huge Impact
Fiction
Which
Novel
I was trained in the '50s as a New Critic. I remember what literature was like before the New Critics, when people stood up and talked about Shelley's soul and such things.
Clifford Geertz
Soul
People
Remember
Before
Critic
Critics
About
New
Like
Talked
Shelley
Up
Trained
Stood
Literature
Such Things
Things
Shelley Jackson's 'Half Life' is the textual equivalent of an installation, a multivocal, polymorphous, dialogic, dystopian satire wrapped around a murder mystery wrapped around a bildungsroman.
Stacey D'Erasmo
Life
Satire
Half
Wrapped
Mystery
Installation
Around
Shelley
Equivalent
Textual
Jackson
Dystopian
I carry Yeats with me wherever I go. He's my constant companion. I always can find some comfort in Yeats no matter what the situation is. Months and months and months go by and I know I need to switch to Shelley or somebody else, but right now Yeats is enough for me.
Linda Hamilton
Me
Matter
Somebody
Situation
Enough
Else
Months
Carry
Find
Constant
Some
He
Know
Comfort
Shelley
Always
Go
Yeats
Wherever
Companion
Now
Switch
Right
Need
There's one of my new poems actually - is a good example of where my poetry has ended up. My earlier river poetry was more like a cross between Shelley and Dylan Thomas.
Robert Adamson
Good
Example
Thomas
Cross
Poems
More
Poetry
River
Between
New
Like
Shelley
Up
Ended
Where
Dylan
Dylan Thomas
Good Example
Actually
Earlier