What fierce imaginings their dark souls lit

[sovay]

I have just acquired a biography of Isaac Rosenberg. Not counting classical sources like Plutarch and Suetonius, memoirs, or novels whose protagonists are historical, this brings the sum total of biographies I own up to three. The other two are Mervyn Peake and Aubrey Beardsley. Last week when we were in Harvard Square, lesser_celery advised me not to buy any more biographies on the theory that anyone else I added would disturb the singularity of this combination, but I think a Jewish painter-poet of the First World War is probably not going to normalize it much. I am curious what I could have gotten the three of them to talk about together, though.

. . . of course, in the time it took me to shower, I remembered that I inherited from my grandmother a biography of Sholem Aleichem, written by his daughter Marie Waife-Goldberg, so I guess that's four. It's not in an easily accessible box, unlike the other two, so it didn't spring to mind. I wonder what other books I've forgotten.

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[teenybuffalo.livejournal.com]

He's the most intriguing WWI poet of whom I'd never heard before. I'll have to read his stuff.

Just to be shallow about it, he was pretty cute. His photo in uniform looks young and thoughtful.

[sovay]

I'll have to read his stuff.

I like his work very much; I discovered him after "Follow Me Home" and then did not understand why I could find almost nothing about him. That has now been remedied!

His photo in uniform looks young and thoughtful.

He did great self-portraits.