While staying in this place, a poet misquoted his own poem in a letter to his daughter Mary reading “First must thou go the road to hell / & to the bower of Circe’s daughter Proserpine.” For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this place that titles a nursery rhyme-like Elizabeth Bishop poem that mentions a “Jew in a newspaper hat.” Charles Olson commented on the “jumps in conversation” undertaken by his friend living in this place.
ANSWER: St. Elizabeths Hospital [accept “Visits to St. Elizabeths”; prompt on mental hospital or insane asylum]
[10e] St. Elizabeths Hospital was the unwilling home of this poet after his capture in Italy for broadcasting fascist propaganda.
ANSWER: Ezra Pound
[10m] During a visit to St Elizabeths, this poet recalled Pound excitedly greeting him by mentioning Wyndham Lewis’s support of Truman. This poet described his father’s suicide by noting he “rose with his gun and went outdoors by my window / and did what was needed.”
ANSWER: John Berryman [prompt on John Allyn Smith, Jr] (The poem is “Dream Song 145.”)
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