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She replaced poet Seamus Heaney as Boylston Professor at Harvard, becoming the first woman to be appointed to this position.
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She and replaced
She refolded the letter, replaced it in its envelope, and turned with relief to one from her brother George.
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She was replaced during most of her season seven maternity leave by Mimi Davis, played by Barbara Anderson, who had just come from the show Ironside.
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She was replaced by Benay Venuta, with whom she enjoyed a long but frequently tempestuous friendship.
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She boycotted the swearing-in ceremony of the China-appointed Hong Kong Legislative Council, which replaced the elected one, along with the British contingents.
She notes however that one form may evolve into the other: ' those whose limerence was replaced by affectional bonding with the same partner might say ..." We were very much in love when we married ; today we love each other very much "'.
She was briefly replaced by Albert Dytch, but within four months Dytch in turn left, and in August 1973 James Baen joined UPD.
She and poet
She began to explain, `` There was this poet, in Italy '' He interrupted, `` Please don't judge all poets ''.
It was restored to his widow, at the pleading of the poet André Chénier ; " She is old ", he urged, " she is seventy-six, and her husband has left her no heritage save his illustrious name, his virtues and his poverty.
She had already published extensively, having won various awards, and had come especially to meet Hughes and his fellow poet Lucas Myers.
She was a Russian immigrant ten years his senior, who at that time was married to surrealist poet Paul Éluard.
( She later became California's first poet laureate and an important figure in the San Francisco literary community ).
She became acquainted with her husband, the poet and author Johann Christoph Gottsched, when she sent him some of her own works.
She claimed that Charles had physically abused her ; this claim was generally believed by contemporaries even though Louise was already involved in an adulterous relationship with the Italian poet, Count Vittorio Alfieri.
She met the young poet, Nikolay Gumilev on Christmas Eve 1903, who encouraged her to write and pursued her intensely, making numerous marriage proposals from 1905.
She later began an affair with the celebrated Acmeist poet Osip Mandelstam, whose wife, Nadezhda, declared later, in her autobiography that she came to forgive Akhmatova for it in time.
She became close friends with Boris Pasternak ( who, though married, proposed to her many times ) and rumours began to circulate that she was having an affair with influential lyrical poet Alexander Blok.
She selected poems for her third collection Belaya Staya ( White Flock ) in 1917, a volume which poet and critic Joseph Brodsky later described as writing of personal lyricism tinged with the “ note of controlled terror ”.
She found herself particularly attracted to Archibald Douglas, 6th Earl of Angus, whom even his uncle, the cleric and poet Gavin Douglas, called a " young witless fool.
She was taken to Egypt in the time of Pharaoh Amasis, and freed there for a large sum by Charaxus of Mytilene, brother of Sappho, the lyric poet.
She was powerless ( nil agis, " you can do nothing ," the poet repeats twice ); the god " occupies her with his embrace ," and after overpowering her to achieve his goal, treats the encounter as contractual: " In exchange for our intercourse ( pro concubitu ), the right ( ius ) of the hinge will be yours ; take that as payment for the virginity you deposited " ( 6. 119 – 128 ).
She recommends that as one with a troubled conscience ought to look to a minister for guidance, so should the reader ask a poet for help in understanding her poems.
She was a sister of the novelist Mrs. Humphrey Ward, niece of the poet Matthew Arnold, and granddaughter of Thomas Arnold, the headmaster of Rugby School ( immortalised as a character in Tom Brown's Schooldays ).
She had a special interest in history, philosophy, and literature, and developed a profound reverence for the German lyric poet and radical political thinker, Heinrich Heine, whose letters she collected.
Among the major writers of the period were Guo Moruo ( 郭沫若 ) ( 1892 – 1978 ), a poet, historian, essayist, and critic ; Mao Dun ( 茅盾 ) ( 1896 – 1981 ), the first of the novelists to emerge from the " League of Left-Wing Writers " and one whose work reflected the revolutionary struggle and disillusionment of the late 1920s ; satirist and novelist Lao She ( 老舍 ) ( 1899 – 1966 ); and Ba Jin ( 巴金 ) ( 1904 – 2005 ), a novelist whose work was influenced by Ivan Turgenev and other Russian writers.
She visited the poet twice at his Lake Garda villa, seeking to paint his portrait ; he in turn was set on seduction.
She had spurned the attention of the poet on their first meeting, subsequently giving Byron what became his lasting epitaph when she described him as " mad, bad, and dangerous to know.
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