Things the Internet has brought me (part II)

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The perfect gift for English professors and librarian-types: Holy Tango of Literature, by Francis Heaney, a survey of literature through the ages, "if poets and playwrights wrote works whose titles were anagrams of their names."

For example:

SKINNY DOMICILE
EMILY DICKINSON

I have a skinny Domicile—
Its Door is very narrow.
’Twill keep—I hope—the Reaper out—
His Scythe—and Bones—and Marrow.

Since Death is not a portly Chap,
The Entrance must be thin—
So—when my Final Moment comes—
He cannot wriggle in.

That’s why I don’t go out that much—
I can’t fit through that Portal.
How dumb—to waste my Social Life
On Plans to be—immortal—

You can also read the whole thing online, but that doesn't help with the gift-giving.