Favorite authors:
British 18th and 19th Century novelists, particularly Trollope, Dickens, Austen as well as modern British charmers like Elizabeth [von Arnim], Marjorie Sharp, E.F. Benson. My favorite poems are Matthew Arnold's "Dover Beach," W.S Merwin's "Yesterday," Auden's "Musee des Beaux Arts," Whitman's "Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking," Dickinson's "Success Is Counted Sweetest," C. Wright's "Virgo Descending," Hayden's "Those Winter Sundays," Marvel's "To His Coy Mistress," Dickey's "The Sleep Child," oh, and so many, many more; I have a personal anthology of several hundred wonderful poems, mostly by modern poets.