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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Adapting the interior point method for the solution of linear programs on high performance computers

In this paper we describe a unified algorithmic framework for the interior point method (IPM) of solving Linear Programs (LPs) which allows us to adapt it over a range of high performance computer architectures. We set out the reasons as to why IPM makes better use of high performance computer architecture than the sparse simplex method. In the inner iteration of the IPM a search direction is computed using Newton or higher order methods. Computationally this involves solving a sparse symmetric positive definite (SSPD) system of equations. The choice of direct and indirect methods for the solution of this system and the design of data structures to take advantage of coarse grain parallel and massively parallel computer architectures are considered in detail. Finally, we present experimental results of solving NETLIB test problems on examples of these architectures and put forward arguments as to why integration of the system within sparse simplex is beneficial

Modeling molecular hyperfine line emission

In this paper we discuss two approximate methods previously suggested for modeling hyperfine spectral line emission for molecules whose collisional transitions rates between hyperfine levels are unknown. Hyperfine structure is seen in the rotational spectra of many commonly observed molecules such as HCN, HNC, NH3, N2H+, and C17O. The intensities of these spectral lines can be modeled by numerical techniques such as Lambda-iteration that alternately solve the equations of statistical equilibrium and the equation of radiative transfer. However, these calculations require knowledge of both the radiative and collisional rates for all transitions. For most commonly observed radio frequency spectral lines, only the net collisional rates between rotational levels are known. For such cases, two approximate methods have been suggested. The first method, hyperfine statistical equilibrium (HSE), distributes the hyperfine level populations according to their statistical weight, but allows the population of the rotational states to depart from local thermodynamic equilibrium (LTE). The second method, the proportional method approximates the collision rates between the hyperfine levels as fractions of the net rotational rate apportioned according to the statistical degeneracy of the final hyperfine levels. The second method is able to model non-LTE hyperfine emission. We compare simulations of N2H+ hyperfine lines made with approximate and more exact rates and find that satisfactory results are obtained.Comment: 34 pages. Pages 22-34 are data tables. For ApJ