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Re: PPB: The Lonely Hunter / Fiona MacLeod

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From: parnellos.pizza@
Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2022 17:03
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NancyGene wrote:

> On Sunday, July 17, 2022 at 4:21:42 PM UTC, george...@yahoo.ca wrote:
>> Today's poem on Penny's Poetry Blog:
>> The Lonely Hunter, by Fiona MacLeod
>> [...]
>> Deep in the heart of Summer, sweet is life to me still,
>> But my heart is a lonely hunter that hunts on a lonely hill.
>> [...]
>> https://gdancesbetty.blogspot.com/2022/07/the-lonely-hunter-fiona-macleod..html

> "The Lonely Hunter," by William Sharp (aka and written as "Fiona MacLeod") is a wonderful poem.  Mr. Sharp closely guarded Fiona's identity.  Project Gutenberg has published the memoir on Mr. Sharp, written by his wife, in which the dual identities are (partially) explained.
> "William Sharp (Fiona Macleod), A Memoir Compiled by his wife Elizabeth A. Sharp" (1910), by Elizabeth A. Sharp
> https://www.gutenberg.org/files/47344/47344-h/47344-h.htm

> Carson McCullers, of course, took the title of her book from Mr. Sharp's poem.

I suspected that she had.

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