Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1912
- Died
- 2015
- Works
- 98
Top works
- The Norton Anthology of English Literature --Seventh Edition -- Volume 2A
- Fourth Dimension of a Poem
- The mirror and the lamp
- The Twentieth Century and After -- Ninth Edition
- The Norton Anthology of English Literature -- Fourth Edition -- Volume 1
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,938x
- Molecular mechanisms of cell death: recommendations of the Nomenclature Committee on Cell Death 2018
· 2018 · cited 5,840x
- The standardisation of terminology of lower urinary tract function: Report from the standardisation sub‐committee of the International Continence Society
· 2002 · cited 5,663x
- Statistical thermodynamics of liquid mixtures: A new expression for the excess Gibbs energy of partly or completely miscible systems
· 1975 · cited 4,322x
- The 2011 Report on Dietary Reference Intakes for Calcium and Vitamin D from the Institute of Medicine: What Clinicians Need to Know
· 2011 · cited 3,155x
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Quotes
- “John Updike is always fun. And one of my former students, Tom Pynchon. I like to read Archie Ammons, my great friend. And Harold Bloom, another former student.”
- “The theories of the major philosophers of the 18th century secular enlightenment were biblical and theological in spite of themselves.”
- “Hard work makes easy reading or, at least, easier reading.”
- “If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem.”
- “When something startlingly new comes up, young people, especially, seize it. You can't complain about that.”
- “If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.”
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