Jean Stafford's story "Th
Jean Stafford's story "The Interior Castle" was inspired by a car accident involving this author, Stafford's husband at the time. He asked "will your sword / whistle and fall and sink into the fat?" in a poem addressed to his cousin Warren Winslow. That poem by this author contains a section titled "Our Lady of Walsingham" and describes "the end of the whaleroad and the whale" in a place "where the (*) bones cry out in the long night". The line "a savage servility slides by on grease" ends a poem by this man that begins with the image of "a Sahara of snow" surrounding "the old South Boston Aquarium". In that poem, he wrote of the "angry wrenlike vigilance" of Col. Shaw in St. Gaudens's monument. For 10 points, name this American poet of "The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket" and "For the Union Dead".
Jean Stafford's story "The Interior Castle" was inspired by a car accident involving this author, Stafford's husband at the time.