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Book SynopsisWhile seeming to affirm the Western poetic and cultural tradition, Greger attacks its rational heart. The subjects of her poems--Mozart operas, Botticelli's Three Graces, narcissus flowers--are the vestments of aristocratic Europe, but her poetic issue is stream-of-consciousness. Originally published in 1990. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the
Table of Contents*FrontMatter, pg. i*ACKNOWLEDGMENTS, pg. v*Contents, pg. xi*Preface to the Collected Works, pg. 3*The 1002nd Night, pg. 4*The Opera Companion, pg. 6*The Married State, pg. 11*On the Margins, pg. 13*Action, pg. 16*The Man Who Writes Dialogue for a Living, pg. 18*To a Mockingbird, pg. 20*The Rome of Keats, pg. 22*La Serenissima, pg. 23*St. Jerome in an Italian Landscape, pg. 27*St. Jerome on the Virgin's Profession, pg. 28*The Family Rilke, pg. 30*Sleeping Beauty, pg. 32*Recent Events: The Fossil Record, pg. 34*A Reader's Guide to English Furniture: The Eighteenth Century, pg. 35*The Penguin Jane Austen, pg. 37*The Little Mermaid Later, pg. 38*The Temperate House, pg. 41*Narcissus, pg. 42*The English Tongue, pg. 43*An English Suite, pg. 44*A Guide to the Gods, pg. 48*The Afterlife, pg. 50*A Brief History of Blasphemy, for the Feast of the Assumption, pg. 55*In the Elephant Folio, pg. 57*Foolscap, pg. 58*Snow White and Rose Red, pg. 59*The Report of the Corrosion Committee, pg. 61*The Diamond of Devotion, pg. 63*Ever After, pg. 71
