Two years ago in his book Author Unknown Foster argued that the curmudgeonly Moore's writing was full of words like "dread" and "strife, " By contrast, argued Foster, Livingston was a jolly fellow whose comic verse was much more like the famous poem.

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Mr. Carpenter relates these to the Wallace Stevens poem "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird, " whose haikulike verses he places on the wall.

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