Strange things about authors/poets.

Page 1 of 1 [ 16 posts ]

Joined: 18 Jan 2012
Gender: Female
Posts: 401
Location: In a musical wonderland ♬ ♭ ♫ ♩

24 Jan 2012, 3:04 am

A teacher once told me that Emily Dickinson used to answer her front door in a wedding dress because she was obsessed with love.

Does anyone else have some strange thongs they have heard about authors/poets?

DJames
Tufted Titmouse

Joined: 13 Jan 2012
Gender: Male
Posts: 40

24 Jan 2012, 3:15 am

Lord Byron kept a bear in his dorm after he was forbidden a dog.

MusicIsLife2Me
Velociraptor

Joined: 18 Jan 2012
Gender: Female
Posts: 401
Location: In a musical wonderland ♬ ♭ ♫ ♩

24 Jan 2012, 3:35 am

DJames wrote:

Lord Byron kept a bear in his dorm after he was forbidden a dog.

Quite interesting.

Dedalus
Yellow-bellied Woodpecker

Joined: 12 Dec 2011
Age: 37
Gender: Male
Posts: 60
Location: Ireland

24 Jan 2012, 4:22 am

W.B. Yeats proposed to, and was rejected by, the same woman for decades. He eventually married her daughter.

MusicIsLife2Me
Velociraptor

Joined: 18 Jan 2012
Gender: Female
Posts: 401
Location: In a musical wonderland ♬ ♭ ♫ ♩

24 Jan 2012, 6:06 am

Dedalus wrote:

W.B. Yeats proposed to, and was rejected by, the same woman for decades. He eventually married her daughter.

I love finding out weird things like this.

Sparx
Veteran
Veteran

Joined: 23 Oct 2011
Gender: Male
Posts: 2,186

24 Jan 2012, 6:19 am

Hehe, thongs.

DJames
Tufted Titmouse

Joined: 13 Jan 2012
Gender: Male
Posts: 40

24 Jan 2012, 7:40 am

Dedalus wrote:

W.B. Yeats proposed to, and was rejected by, the same woman for decades. He eventually married her daughter.

He did not marry Maud Gonne's daughter. Although he did propose marriage, they chose to remain friends.
Speaking of Yeats, I referred in my first thread to speculations by a recent specialist as to Yeats having had
Aspergers - observations which seem curiously befitting in many respects. Having read his biography, his
complete poems and many of his essays, I would be loath to repudiate the possibility of his having had the condition,
or else some other mild form of Autism.

Percy Shelley came face to face with a fetch - his own ghost, in the form of a double - who asked him
"How long do you mean to be content?" Shortly after this visitation, Shelley's boat was capsized in a tempest
by which he died.

Dedalus
Yellow-bellied Woodpecker

Joined: 12 Dec 2011
Age: 37
Gender: Male
Posts: 60
Location: Ireland

24 Jan 2012, 8:46 am

Ah, I was sure he did! But a quick search proves you right. I guess that was just leftover rumours from when I was in school.

Are you talking about Dr. Michael Fitzgerald? Yeats is certainly an interesting one with regards to autism.

DJames
Tufted Titmouse

Joined: 13 Jan 2012
Gender: Male
Posts: 40

24 Jan 2012, 11:03 am

Yes, he appears to be the chief proponent. I found this link:

Yeats

Chipshorter
Velociraptor

Joined: 16 Jan 2012
Age: 47
Gender: Male
Posts: 477
Location: The Georgian Quarter of The Pool of Life, The Centre of The Creative Universe

24 Jan 2012, 7:53 pm

Roger McGough was a member of The Scaffiold.
The Scaffold got a gold disk for Lily the Pink.
The song Lily the Pink is about Lydia Estes Pinkham the inventor of a vegetable compound for the relieve of
menstrual and menopausal pains.

_________________
Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself. It is a hallmark of an authoritarian regime. --Potter Stewart
Corruption is authority plus monopoly minus transparency. --Unknown

snapcap
Veteran
Veteran

Joined: 12 Oct 2011
Age: 44
Gender: Male
Posts: 2,328

24 Jan 2012, 11:26 pm

They all live in their heads, they create online persona's that mimic characters they are writing about for other people to interact with so that they can gauge how people react to them so they can determine how concrete their personality is.

_________________
*some atheist walks outside and picks up stick*

some atheist to stick: "You're like me!"

artrat
Veteran
Veteran

Joined: 6 Nov 2011
Age: 41
Gender: Female
Posts: 1,269
Location: The Butthole of the American Empire

25 Jan 2012, 1:54 am

Leo Tolstoy developed a new Christian philosophy which resulted in excommunication from the church.
His beliefs caused him to live in a commune,become a pacifist vegetarian and not consume alcohol.
In his earlier life he was an obsessive gambler and failed law school because he showed no interest in learning.

_________________
?During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act" ~George Orwell

"I belive in God, only I spell it Nature."
~ Frank Llyod Wright

MusicIsLife2Me
Velociraptor

Joined: 18 Jan 2012
Gender: Female
Posts: 401
Location: In a musical wonderland ♬ ♭ ♫ ♩

25 Jan 2012, 3:10 am

Sparx wrote:

Hehe, thongs.

Lmao. I'm on my phone all the time and it tends to type out what it wants at times.

MusicIsLife2Me
Velociraptor

Joined: 18 Jan 2012
Gender: Female
Posts: 401
Location: In a musical wonderland ♬ ♭ ♫ ♩

25 Jan 2012, 3:12 am

I get so excited learning all these strange things about famous people. Good stuff

Ambivalence
Veteran
Veteran

Joined: 8 Nov 2008
Age: 48
Gender: Male
Posts: 3,613
Location: Peterlee (for Industry)

25 Jan 2012, 5:16 pm

MusicIsLife2Me wrote:

I get so excited learning all these strange things about famous people.

Just visualise the (citation needed) stickers and you'll be fine.

_________________
No one has gone missing or died.

The year is still young.

artrat
Veteran
Veteran

Joined: 6 Nov 2011
Age: 41
Gender: Female
Posts: 1,269
Location: The Butthole of the American Empire

25 Jan 2012, 10:12 pm

Ambivalence wrote:

MusicIsLife2Me wrote:

I get so excited learning all these strange things about famous people.

Just visualise the (citation needed) stickers and you'll be fine.

It may be hard to imagine but some people use other more reliable sources over wikipedia (if that's what you were referring to).

_________________
?During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act" ~George Orwell

"I belive in God, only I spell it Nature."
~ Frank Llyod Wright

Page 1 of 1 [ 16 posts ]

Jump to:

Strange things about authors/poets. Post Reply New Topic

Strange things about authors/poets.