Archer Taylor to a Young Literary Folklorist: An Exchange of Letters

After having seen a collection of Portuguese proverbs in Western Folklore in 1963, Archer Taylor initiated a correspondence with the young folklorist George Monteiro who had put together the collection. They exchanged eleven letters over the next decade, the last one mailed by Taylor only weeks before his death in 1973. From this correspondence there emerges a portrait of the senior folklorist’s kind and eager willingness to encourage the younger man’s efforts by offering him specific and detailed advice about contacts, as well as suggesting places and opportunities for collecting

Whitman, Warner, and the American Men of Letters Series

Uses a letter written from Charles Dudley Warner to the editors of Houghton Mifflin to answer the question of why it took until 1906 for Bliss Perry\u27s Walt Whitman to appear in the American Men of Letters Series

Archer Taylor to a Young Literary Folklorist: An Exchange of Letters

After having seen a collection of Portuguese proverbs in Western Folklore in 1963, Archer Taylor initiated a correspondence with the young folklorist George Monteiro who had put together the collection. They exchanged eleven letters over the next decade, the last one mailed by Taylor only weeks before his death in 1973. From this correspondence there emerges a portrait of the senior folklorist’s kind and eager willingness to encourage the younger man’s efforts by offering him specific and detailed advice about contacts, as well as suggesting places and opportunities for collecting

Robert Frost and the New England Renaissance

A poem is best read in the light of all the other poems ever written. So said Robert Frost in instructing readers on how to achieve poetic literacy. George Monteiro\u27s newest book follows that dictum to enhance our understanding of Frost\u27s most valuable poems by demonstrating the ways in which they circulate among the constellations of great poems and essays of the New England Renaissance. Monteiro reads Frost\u27s own poetry not against all the other poems ever written but in the light of poems and essays by his precursors, particularly Emerson, Thoreau, and Dickinson. Familiar poems such as Mending Wall, After Apple-Picking, Birches, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening, The Road Not Taken, and Mowing, as well as lesser known poems such as The Draft Horse, The Ax-Helve, The Bonfire, Dust of Snow, A Cabin in the Clearing, The Cocoon, and Pod of the Milkweed, are renewed by fresh and original readings that show why and how these poems pay tribute to their distinguished sources. Frost\u27s insistence that Emerson and Thoreau were the giants of nineteenth-century American letters is confirmed by the many poems, variously influenced, that derive from them. His attitude toward Emily Dickinson, however, was more complex and sometimes less generous. In his twenties he molded his poetry after hers. But later, after he joined the faculty of Amherst College, he found her to be less a benefactor than a competitor. Monteiro tells a two-stranded tale of attraction, imitation, and homage countered by competition, denigration, and grudging acceptance of Dickinson\u27s greatness as a woman poet. In a daring move, he composes—out of Frost\u27s own words and phrases—the talk on Emily Dickinson that Frost was never invited to give. In showing how Frost\u27s work converses with that of his predecessors, Monteiro gives us a new Frost whose poetry is seen as the culmination of an in¬tensely felt New England literary experience. George Monteiro is professor of English at Brown University. Lively, sensitive, and full of affection for poems, this book can show undergraduate students why a person might wish to make the study of poetry a profession and graduate students how to be learned and pleasing at the same time. —Choice A fascinating study of how a great poet\u27s mind works. —Atlanta Journal Makes illuminating connections between Frost and his publishing contemporaries .... Monteiro\u27s thorough knowledge of Frost scholarship and his work with early Dickinson texts adds weight to his arguments. —American Literaturehttps://uknowledge.uky.edu/upk_english_language_and_literature_north_america/1036/thumbnail.jp

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Optimization of Dengue Epidemics: a test case with different discretization schemes

The incidence of Dengue epidemiologic disease has grown in recent decades. In this paper an application of optimal control in Dengue epidemics is presented. The mathematical model includes the dynamic of Dengue mosquito, the affected persons, the people's motivation to combat the mosquito and the inherent social cost of the disease, such as cost with ill individuals, educations and sanitary campaigns. The dynamic model presents a set of nonlinear ordinary differential equations. The problem was discretized through Euler and Runge Kutta schemes, and solved using nonlinear optimization packages. The computational results as well as the main conclusions are shown.Comment: Presented at the invited session "Numerical Optimization" of the 7th International Conference of Numerical Analysis and Applied Mathematics (ICNAAM 2009), Rethymno, Crete, Greece, 18-22 September 2009; RepositoriUM, id: http://hdl.handle.net/1822/1083

Long-term variation in the ichthyofauna of Flamengo Cove, Ubatuba, São Paulo

The Brazilian coastline extends along more than 8,000 km covering approximately 38 degrees of latitudinal range through tropical, subtropical and warm-temperate climates and includes a wide variety of marine environments such as sandy beaches, estuaries, rocky shores and reefs. This heterogeneity of habitats is reflected in the diversity of marine fishes found in Brazilian waters which sums approximately 1,300 known species. Approximately 600 marine species are estimated to occur off the coast of São Paulo State. Long-term studies are useful to better access variation in the fish community due to slow processes, rare or episodic events, and highly variable or complex phenomena. Our survey of the fishes of Flamengo Cove, Ubatuba, São Paulo, included two periods set apart 10 years from each other (1990 and 2000), in which the soft-bottom ichthyofauna was sampled with an otter trawl in autumn and spring. We sampled 782 individuals weighing 18,113.3 g representing 37 species and 19 families. Five species are considered as threatened in the State of São Paulo, three of them under threat of overexplotation in the federal context, and two are included in the IUCN’s Red List. The dominant family was the Sciaenidae, with eight species from both periods. We evidenced a significant variation in the structure of the ichthyofauna between 1990 and 2000, and between autumn and spring, although the number of species did not change. The most important species in terms of number of individuals and biomass were Ctenosciaena gracilicirrhus and Paralonchurus brasiliensis, respectively. Data on both of these species indicate that recruitment occurred during spring, when more and smaller individuals were sampled. More long-time studies such as this are encouraged to better understand differences in the variation of the structure of fish communities in Brazilian marine waters