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"Dear John"/Love Letters

February 12, 2010, beginning at 7:00 p.m.

At David and Mary's Place

Janet Buda

  • OSCAR WILDE, excert from De Profundis.

    David Herder

  • CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE, The Passionate Shepher to His Love,"
  • WALTER RALEIGH, The Nymph's Reply," and
  • EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY, "What lips my lips have kissed."

    Rich Johnson

  • Excerpt from a review of a new translation of ROBERT WALSER'S The Assistant, published in the New York Review, February 11, 2010.

    Chris Murphy

  • CONRAD AIKEN, "Music I Heard with You."
  • EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY, "God's World," "The Philosopher," and Oh, think not I am faithful to a vow!

    Mary Trumbull

  • DOROTHY PARKER, "The Little Old Lady in Lavendar Silk".
  • A Valentine's Day poem my father cut from the newspaper and gave to my mother in 1953.
  • JOHN KEATS, A love letter to Fanny Brawne, from Newport, July 8, 1819.

    David Trumbull

  • PLUTARCH, abridgement of Consolatory Letter to His Wife.