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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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3 months ago
The best thing about being God, Murdoch once wrote, would be making the heads. 1.000

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Simplified: Murdoch once wrote the best thing about being God would be making the heads

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3 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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3 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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3 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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3 months ago
Some has been sumptuous. 0.800

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Simplified: Some posthumous work has been sumptuous

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3 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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3 months ago
The book is called “Poems From an Attic: Selected Poems, 1936-1995.” 1.000

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Simplified: The book is titled "Poems From an Attic: Selected Poems 1936-1995"

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3 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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3 months ago
Two of this book’s editors were invited up into the attic of Murdoch and Bayley’s last house, on Charlbury Road in Oxford, in 2016. 1.000

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Simplified: Two editors were invited into the attic of Murdoch and Bayley's last house on Charlbury Road in Oxford in 2016

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3 months ago
Murdoch’s letters, published as “Living on Paper” (2016), are among the most ardent and vivid literary letters of the previous century. 1.000

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Simplified: Murdoch's letters published as "Living on Paper" in 2016 are among the most ardent and vivid literary letters of the previous century

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3 months ago
She feared her poetry was mediocre. 0.900

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Simplified: Iris Murdoch feared her poetry was mediocre

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3 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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3 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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3 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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3 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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3 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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3 months ago
Since then, the Murdoch industry has churned. 0.800

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Simplified: The Murdoch industry has churned since then

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3 months ago
We’ve had three memoirs about her from her husband, John Bayley (one was published shortly before her death), as well as Peter Conradi’s cleareyed and context-rich biography, “Iris Murdoch: A Life,” p... 1.000

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Simplified: Three memoirs about Iris Murdoch from her husband John Bayley and Peter Conradi's biography "Iris Murdoch: A Life" were published

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3 months ago
Iris Murdoch, the formidable Irish and British novelist and philosopher, died in 1999. 1.000

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Simplified: Iris Murdoch died in 1999

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3 months ago