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Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2012 3:04 am Post subject: Strange things about authors/poets.

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
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Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2012 3:15 am Post subject:

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

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Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2012 3:35 am Post subject:

DJames wrote:

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

Quite interesting.

Dedalus
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Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2012 4:22 am Post subject:

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

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Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2012 6:06 am Post subject:

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.

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Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2012 6:19 am Post subject:

Hehe, thongs.

DJames
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Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2012 7:40 am Post subject:

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
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Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2012 8:46 am Post subject:

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
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Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2012 11:03 am Post subject:

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

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Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2012 7:53 pm Post subject:

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Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2012 11:26 pm Post subject:

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Posted: Wed Jan 25, 2012 1:54 am Post subject:

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