What was Miss Lonelyhearts’ real name?
Miss Lonelyhearts’ real name was never given.
Miss Lonelyhearts’ real name was never given.
Thomas Chatterton was the author of several pseudo fifteenth-century poems supposedly written by monk Thomas Rowley. He committed suicide in his London garret by taking arsenic at age seventeen, driven to despair by poverty. He became a hero of native English verse to Romantic poets such as Wordsworth, Shelley, and Keats. Chatterton was the author…
Dr. Spielvogel is the psychiatrist to whom Alexander Portnoy tells his story in Philip Roth’s Portnoy’s Complaint.
Edward Bellamy looking backward from the year 2000 in Looking Backward.
Natty Bumppo’s Indian sidekick was Chingachgook. He appears in Cooper’s The Deer-slayer (1841), The Last of the Mohicans (1826), The Pathfinder (1840), and The Pioneers (1823).
T. S. Eliot’s “The Hollow Men” (1925) says the world ends “Not with a bang but a whimper”.
Gloriana was the name of the Faerie Queene in Spenser’s The Faerie Queene (1590-96).