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The best are strong enough that it’s as if she carved them, with a knife, onto a library desk. 0.900

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Simplified: The best are strong enough as if she carved them with a knife onto a library desk

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2 months ago
These are formal workings out of impulses, appetites and intense feelings. 0.900

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Simplified: These are formal workings out of impulses appetites and intense feelings

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2 months ago
“Poems From an Attic” does not greatly extend our understanding of Murdoch. 0.900

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Simplified: Poems From an Attic does not greatly extend understanding of Murdoch

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2 months ago
Murdoch said in an interview, that “poets can express much more than novelists, this connected sense of something which is simple and lucid and true and non-bogus and at the same time oddly accidental... 0.900

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Simplified: Murdoch said poets can express much more than novelists

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2 months ago
He is headed toward an “obscure hotel / Where he is waited for.” 0.900

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Simplified: He is headed toward an obscure hotel where he is waited for

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2 months ago
She is remarried with children. 0.900

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Simplified: She is remarried with children

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2 months ago
He considers how his wife would have reacted. 0.900

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Simplified: He considers how his wife would have reacted

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2 months ago
The poem takes a turn in the middle. 0.900

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Simplified: The poem takes a turn in the middle

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2 months ago
An urbane poem titled “St. James’s Park” reads a bit like the everyday sketches of Frank O’Hara: “The people are constantly coming over the bridge / And the lips of the women are red.” 1.000

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Simplified: The poem "St James's Park" reads like the everyday sketches of Frank O'Hara

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2 months ago
I enjoyed a poem titled “Oxford to Paddington,” written on a train and dedicated to Bayley, in part because she finds herself “wondering if you are now / In the Bodleian working hard perhaps.” 1.000

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Simplified: The author enjoyed the poem "Oxford to Paddington" written on a train and dedicated to Bayley

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2 months ago
A little knowledge of Murdoch’s life helps. 0.900

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Simplified: Knowledge of Murdoch's life helps

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2 months ago
The editors note that this poem describes a concert Murdoch attended with her friends Philippa and Michael Foote, and refers to a “‘quadrilateral tale’ of partner-swapping that had occurred over a dec... 1.000

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Simplified: The editors note the poem describes a concert Murdoch attended with Philippa and Michael Foote and refers to a "quadrilateral tale" of partner-swappin...

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2 months ago
Some of this has been nonessential: for example, the diaries Murdoch kept as a young woman, published as “A Writer at War” (2010). 1.000

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Simplified: The diaries Murdoch kept as a young woman were published as "A Writer at War" in 2010

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2 months ago
We’ve also had a trickle of posthumous work. 0.800

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Simplified: There has also been a trickle of posthumous work

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2 months ago
Now comes a collection of her poetry, almost none of which was published during her lifetime. 1.000

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Simplified: A collection of her poetry, almost none of which was published during her lifetime, is now available

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2 months ago
One of the central poems in this collection, written in 1955, is titled “Musical Evening for Three.” 1.000

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Simplified: One central poem in this collection written in 1955 is titled "Musical Evening for Three"

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2 months ago
One is titled “To a Girl With Yellow Hair” and begins: “How is it that we understood each other / At once, and recognized each other / Without the usual preliminaries?” 1.000

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Simplified: One poem is titled "To a Girl With Yellow Hair" and begins "How is it that we understood each other / At once and recognized each other / Without the...

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2 months ago
She feared her poetry was mediocre. 0.900

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Literature , Poetry

Simplified: Iris Murdoch feared her poetry was mediocre

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2 months ago
In its style and subject matter, it’s very much in keeping with the most crucial of her novels, which include “Under the Net” (1954) and “The Sea, The Sea” (1978). 1.000

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Simplified: The poetry is in keeping with the style and subject matter of her novels including "Under the Net" (1954) and "The Sea The Sea" (1978)

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2 months ago
A primary theme is obsessive love. 0.900

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Simplified: Obsessive love is a primary theme

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