Absolution, emotional reality of
Academic life: challenges of teaching poetry; in Milwaukee; poetry conference planning; at Smith College; and tour of school in Lincoln; at University of Massachusetts; at Washington University
Acropolis in Athens
Adams, Robert M.
Adviser, Clampitt as: for brother Philip; on free will; and women vs. men on conflict
Aesthetics of ritual, see Ritual, aesthetics of
Age, Amy’s feelings about
Agents, literary
“Agreeable Monsters” (Clampitt)
Alcott, Louisa May
Alden, Henry
Alfred, William
Algeciras, Spain
Alice in Wonderland (Carroll)
Allen, Robert P.
All God’s Dangers (Rosengarten)
Altar, mythological origins of
American Poetry Review
American Scholar
Ammons, A. R.
Amsterdam
Anger, Amy’s struggles with
Anglican (Episcopal) Church: attraction to; disenchantment with; and experiences missed in Iowa; process of joining; vs. Quaker sensibility; ritual experiences; see also Nuns
Anglophile, Amy as
Antaeus
Antinuclear protests
Apartment on West 12th Street: attachment to; birdwatching at; conversion to co-op; death of neighbor at; moving out of; refurbishing of; subletting of
Aquinas, St. Thomas
Archaic Figure (Clampitt)
Arensberg, Ann
Aristotle
Arrests and jail time adventures
Art and artists: Amy on; and Audubon Society; Brancusi sculpture show; Cloisters tapestries; complexity of; Redouté (painter); see also Marcasiano, Peter
Arvon poetry competition
Ashbery, John
Asolo, Italy
Assisi, Italy
Atlantic
“At the Welfare Hearings” (Clampitt)
Auden, W. H.
Audubon Society: beginnings of job with; and bird people; and birdwatching; book review work for; gossip about; job-leaving considerations; job stress crisis; novel-writing sabbatical from; parties at; resignation from; working life at
Augustine, Saint
Aunt Dan and Lemon (Shawn)
Awe, definition of
Azores
Bachelard, Gaston
Bailey, Mabel
Balanchine, George
The Ballad of Baby Doe (opera)
Ballet, Amy’s fondness for
“Balms” (Clampitt)
Banton, Vivian
Baudelaire, Charles
BBC recording of poetry reading
Becoming a Heroine: Reading about Women in Novels (Brownstein)
“Beethoven, Opus 111” (Clampitt)
Bellagio, Italy
Bellow, Saul
Bells, church
Bereavement, Amy on
Berenson, Bernard
Bereny, Dorothy
Bergman, Karl-Erik
Bergson, Henri
Berkeley, California
Berlin, Germany
Berry, Eileen
The Best American Poetry
Bible, Amy on
Binder, Peter
Biography and correspondence
Birdwatching: and bird researchers at Audubon library; in Central Park; in Dallas area; in England; in Iowa; in Maine; near apartment; and respect for nature; sparrow’s home near Fifth Avenue
Bishop, Elizabeth
Bitter Lemons (Durrell)
Black and Brown Caucus
Blake, Dorothy
Blay, Barbara
Bloom, Harold
Bok, Derek
Bolshoi Ballet
Bombing of Soviet Embassy (1979)
Bonjour Tristesse (Sagan)
Book of Nightmares (Kinnell)
Book research work, see Editorial/research jobs
Bookstores, Amy’s fondness for
Boston, Massachusetts
Boston University
Bourne, Nina
Bowdoin College
Bowen, Elizabeth
Box Hill in England
Boyajian, Cecile Starr
Bradley, George
Brancusi sculpture show
Braudel, Fernand
Braverman, Libby
Britain, Great, see England
Broadstairs, England
Brodsky, Joseph
Brontë, Emily
Brown, Tina
Brownstein, Rachel
Buckley, William F.
Burford Bridge Hotel
California
Calvinism, Amy on
Cambridge, England
Camus, Albert
Cancer: Amy’s ovarian; Hal’s lymphoma
Cannes, France
Canvassing for Democratic vote
Careers, see Audubon Society; Editorial/research jobs; Writing career
Carlyle, Thomas
Carroll, Lewis
Carruth, Hayden
Carson, Rachel
Carter, Jimmy
Carter, Rosalynn
“A Catalpa Tree on West Twelfth Street” (Clampitt)
Central Park: birdwatching in; as escape from city life; free Shakespeare performances in
CETA (Comprehensive Employment Training Act)
Chase, Karen
Chepstow, England/Wales
La Chinoise (Godard)
Churches: in Assisi; in Bellagio; Greek Orthodox; music in; NYC vs. Midwest; power struggles in Iowa; in Wales; see also Religion
Church of the Epiphany, NYC
Clampitt, Amy: biographical sketch; and dealing with anger; as defined by literature; gratitude attitude; last illness and death of; nonconformity of; overview of character; self-analysis
Clampitt, Beth (sister)
Clampitt, David (nephew)
Clampitt, Frank (grandfather)
Clampitt, Holly (niece)
Clampitt, Larry (brother)
Clampitt, Pauline (mother)
Clampitt, Philip (brother)
Clampitt, Richard (brother)
Clampitt, Roy J. (father)
Clapp, Sara and Steve
Clare College
Clarissa (Richardson)
Clark, Barbara (McClenon)
Clark, Ramsey
Classical music, see Music
Class reunion
The Cloisters
The Cloud of Unknowing
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
Colorado trips
Columbia University
Colwin, Laurie
The Common Reader (Woolf)
Communism
Community of St. John Baptist
Company vs. solitude, see Solitude vs. company
Comprehensive Employment Training Act (CETA)
Confession, value of
Confessions (Augustine)
Conflict of interest, human relations as
Conservatism, Amy’s flirtation with
Conventionality vs. personal growth
Convent life, visiting
Cooking and cuisine: Amy’s recipes; and entertaining guests; in Minnesota; Swiss; vegetarian
Coppelia (ballet)
Corn, Alfred
“The Cove” (Clampitt)
Creation vs. evolution
Creative Evolution (Bergson)
Crime in NYC, Amy as victim of
Critics, discovery of Clampitt; see also Vendler, Helen
Cummings, e. e.
Cynicism vs. disillusionment about love
“The Dahlia Gardens” (Clampitt)
Daily trivia as Clampitt theme; see also Observation, Amy’s powers of; Weather
Dakota: A Spiritual Geography (Norris)
Dallas, Texas
Dance: and Amy’s natural rhythm; ballet; as metaphor for life
Dance Theatre of Harlem
Daniel Deronda (Eliot, G.)
Dante Alighieri
Darwin, Charles
Day of the Locust (West)
Delos, Greece
Delphi, Greece
Democratic convention (1968)
Depression: Amy on; Amy’s holiday
Des Moines, Iowa
Dickens, Charles
Dickey, James
Dickinson, Emily
The Didactic Muse (Spiegelman)
Discipline, religious
Disillusionment vs. cynicism about love
Doctors, Amy’s skepticism about
Dogma, religious
Dominance as driving force in relationships
Don Quixote (ballet)
The Dream of a Common Language (Rich)
Dubus, André
Durrell, Lawrence
Dutton publishing house, Clampitt’s work at: boss’s role in poetry publication; editing projects; employment arrangement; end of job relationship; Lana Turner memoir; manuscript reading; overview of
Easter celebrations
Ebenezer Welsh Presbyterian Church
Eccles, Lady Mary
Eccles, Lord David
Eckelberry, Don
“The Edge of the Hurricane” (Clampitt)
Editorial/research jobs: author relations on long project; Christmas rush on; environmental position paper; Franklin project; indexing and editing project; overview of; for Schoenbrun; as source of income; see also Dutton publishing house, Clampitt’s work at
Eichelbaum, Stanley
Eisenhower, Dwight David
Elections and political views
The Electrification of the Soviet Union (opera)
Eliot, George
Eliot, T. S.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
Emotions, Amy on, see Feelings
England: Amy’s love for; and nature; 1960s trip; 1980s trips
English literature, Amy’s love for
Environmentalism
Epidauros, Greece
Epiphany, Church of the, NYC
Episcopal Church, see Anglican (Episcopal) Church
Essays, Amy’s
Essential nature vs. free will
European sojourns: conference trip with Harold; on France; Germany; Greece; Italy; lessons from; loss of desire for travel; memories of youthful; The Netherlands; plans for in 1970s; Switzerland; see also England
Evil, reality of
Evolution vs. creation
Exercise program
“Existential Choice” (Clampitt)
“Exmoor” (Clampitt)
Façade (ballet)
Faith, role of
Fame, period of, see Recognition, public
Family events: father’s academic honors; parents’ deaths; parents’ golden anniversary; reunions in Iowa; sister Beth’s mental illness; visits to brothers and their families; see also individual family members
Family opinion, Amy’s sensitivities to
Farb, Peter
Fashion and clothing: during final illness; in 1950s; in 1960s; in 1970s
Fear: Amy’s loss of; as primary obstacle to happiness; as root of all evil; of thinking for oneself; vs. ultimate benevolence of deity
Feelings: Amy on anger; and Amy’s response to art/literature; and appeal of religion; as central to successful writing; happiness as self-generated; importance of expressing; sorrow and joy dichotomy; and truth; virtues of emotional pain
Feldman, Irving
Fields, Barbara
Firebird (ballet)
Fitness program
Fitzgerald, F. Scott
Fleurs du Mal (Baudelaire)
Florence, Italy
Flye, Fr.
Forms and styles, literary, see Styles and forms, literary
Fox, George
France, Amy on
Francis of Assisi, Saint
Freedman, Joe
Free love
Free will, Amy on
Friendships, see Personal relationships
Frost, Robert
Funerals, apartment neighbor’s
Funiculare railway in Naples
Gabriel, Dan
Gandhi, Mahatma
Gene (apartment neighbor), death of
Generations and interaction with hippies
Germany
Ghost-writing job
Gibraltar
Ginsberg, Allen
Gittings, Robert
God and Man at Yale (Buckley)
Goodman, Joe
Goodman, Paul
Good works vs. prayer
Grace, interpersonal role of
Graham, Jorie
Grand Canyon
Grand Street
Gratitude, Amy’s attitude of
Great Britain, see England
The Great Gatsby (Fitzgerald)
Greece: mythology of; trip to
Greek language: ambitions to learn; coursework in; learning on voyage; translation project
Greek Orthodox Church
Greene, Graham
The Greening of America (Reich)
Gregory, Dick
Griffin, John
Grinnell College
Guggenheim Fellowship
Guggenheim Museum
Guide to Bird Finding West of the Mississippi (Pettingill)
Hacker, Marilyn
“A Hairline Fracture” (Clampitt)
Hamilton-Phillips, Martha
Hampstead, England
Happiness as self-generated
Harper’s
Harvard University
The Haw Lantern (Heaney)
Heacox, Tom
Health issues: colds and such; for Hal; knee problems; laryngitis and poetry readings; and Lenten privations; ovarian cancer
Heaney, Seamus
Hecht, Anthony
Herbert, George
Hippies, working with
Hirsch, Edward
History, holistic fabric of
History of England (Trevelyan)
Holden, Jonathan
Holy Week experiences
Homeric epics
Homosexuality, early views on
Honors, Amy’s, see Recognition, public
Hopkins, Gerard Manley
Horowitz, Israel
Hospital of St. Cross
Hoss, Phoebe
House in Lenox
Housing crises in NYC
Howard, Richard
Howl (Ginsberg)
Hughes, Daniel
Hughes, Ted
The Human Equation (Farb)
Human nature, observations on: bird people; and difficulties of personal transformation; and inevitability of human progress; self-acceptance needs; on stupidity; see also People watching; Personal relationships
Humboldt’s Gift (Bellow)
Humility and gifts of religion
Hungary, Soviet invasion of
I, Claudius (Graves)
Ideas Have Consequences (Weaver)
Iliad (Homer)
Illnesses, see Health issues
Illuminations (ballet)
Immortality, Amy on
Incredible String Band
Independence of mind, importance of
Inferno (Dante)
Inflation, price
Intellect, Amy on
The Interpretation of Dreams (Freud)
Intuition: as decision-making method; feminine origins of; importance of; and inspiration; and listening; vs. scientific knowledge
Iona, Island of
Iowa: loss of family home; memories of; nature in; plans for moving to; post-fame visits; temporary residence in; see also Family events
Iowa City, Iowa
Ischia, Island of
Isherwood, Christopher
Isolation vs. community, see Solitude vs. company
Israel, on U.S. policy toward
Israel in Egypt (Handel oratorio)
The Isthmus (Clampitt)
Italy
Jackson, Wes
Jail time adventures
James, Henry
James, William
“Japanese Characters” (Salter)
Jersey Meadows poem
Jogging program
John Keats, the Disinterested Heart (Sister Thekla)
Johnson, Charles
Johnson, Samuel
Journal writing, Amy on
Judaism
Judging of poetry, Amy on
Kansas City
Kazin, Alfred
Keats, George
Keats, John: correspondence of; as inspiration; literary production of; and philosophy; poems on; possible book about; reintroduction to; visit to haunts of
“Keats at Teignmouth” (Clampitt)
Kennan, George
Kennedy, John F.
Kenyon Review
Keswick, England
Key West, trip to
Kiesel, Margaret Matlack
The Kingfisher (Clampitt): and Amy’s response to success; arrangement of poems in; British edition; launching party for; publication process
Kinkead, Eugene
Kinnell, Galway
Kipnis, Igor
Kissinger, Henry
Kitchen, Paddy
Knopf publishing house
Knudson, Zan
Korn, Harold: and Amy’s illness and death; Amy’s missing of; appreciation of poetry readings; caring for Amy; European conference trip; first mention; illness of; Jewish background of; joys of being with; lack of correspondence to; as life partner; perfectionism of; and reading aloud tradition; relationship background; relationship issues; teaching duties; virtues of
Kybart, Peter
Laden, Henry
Lake Como, Italy
Landscape as theme, see Nature
Langer, Suzanne
Language, power of
Language of the Stage course
Lansdowne, Fenwick
Lawrence, D. H.
Lea, Sydney
Le Gallais, M.
Legionnaires’ disease
Lehman, David
Leithauser, Brad
Lenox, Massachusetts
Lent and Easter experiences
“Letters from Jerusalem” (Clampitt)
Letters to Young Churches (Phillips)
Letter writing: collection composition; demise of; editor’s method; summary of Amy’s themes
Leyden, The Netherlands
Liberalism, Amy’s; see also Politics
Liberals, Amy on
Librarian, Amy as reference, see Audubon Society
Library of Congress, readings at
Liddy, James
Lieberman, Laurence
Life: importance of natural; living vs. intellectual observation of
A Life I Did Not Plan (Clampitt, R.)
Lindsay, Hal
Lindsay, John
Lisbon, Portugal
Literary life and literature: on Audubon Society research papers; on English literature; on George Eliot; on Henry James; on literary people; literature vs. life; and reading life; on Salinger; on Wuthering Heights
Little Men (Alcott)
Little Women (Alcott)
Logic, inadequacies of
London, England
London, Jean Dimond
Loneliness, Amy on
The Lonely Crowd (Riesman)
Los Angeles, California
Love, Amy on; see also Romances
Lowell, Robert
Lucia di Lammermoor (opera)
Luxembourg, visiting dignitaries from
MacArthur Foundation grant
McCarthy, Eugene
McCarthy, Joseph
Macaulay, Thomas Babington
McClatchy, J. D. (Sandy)
Machiavelli, Niccolo
Macrae, John III
Maine sojourns
Malamud, Bernard
Mansfield, Katherine
Marcasiano, Peter: beauties of friendship with; deep conflict with; initial meeting in Paris; loss of relationship; as Mary Russel’s friend; nature of relationship; personality of; reconciliation with
March Against Death
Marjorie Morningstar (Wouk)
Marriage, Amy on
Marshall, Anne (Sr. Mary John)
Marshall, John
Matlack, David
Matlack, George
“Matoaka” (Clampitt)
Maundy Thursday
Mayer, Milton
The Maze Maker (Ayrton)
The Mediterranean (Braudel)
Mediterranean voyages
Men, Amy on
Mental illness, sister Beth’s; see also Psychoanalysis
Merrill, James
Messina, Italy
Metamorphoses (Ovid)
Michel, Rimsa
Middlemarch (Eliot, G.)
Millett, Kate
The Mill on the Floss (Eliot, G.)
Milne, A. A.
Milton, John
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Les Miserables (Hugo)
Mitchell, Arthur
Monastic life, Amy on; see also Nuns
Money and finances, Amy on
Monica, Countess de la Salle: Amy’s replacement of; on artists; dislike of title; on evolution vs. religion; inheritance of; on Suez Canal crisis; support for Amy
Montpelier, Vermont
Moore, Fr.
Moral philosophy
Moratorium movement
Morgan Library
Morralé, Fr.
Morrisroe, Patricia
Moses, Robert
Moss, Howard: Amy’s first meeting with; on Columbia University; dinner with Amy; health problems of; at Kingfisher launch party; on monotony of manner in poetry; and publication of Amy’s poetry
Multitudes, Multitudes (Clampitt)
Mumford, Lewis
Murphy, John
Music: appreciation of; church; concerts/operas attended; David Clampitt’s career in; employment issues for musicians; government support for orchestral; listening to classical; and local friends; on ocean liners; as poetic metaphor; recorder playing; singing at parties; Welsh singing; see also Dance
The Mysteries (play)
Mysticism and stillness before unknown
The Myth of Sisyphus (Camus)
Mythology: altar origins; Amy’s love of Greek; and Gatsby as mythological character; and Greek sightseeing
Naples, Italy
Nation
The Natural History of Selborne (White)
Nature: in Colorado; in England; enjoyment of; and environmentalism; far northeast; and importance of outdoor time; in Iowa; Italian landscape; at Lenox house; loss of in city life; in Maine; in Massachusetts garden; and Pennsylvania countryside; Peter’s appreciation of; roses; seasonal observations; in southern U.S.; and spirituality; spring in NYC; as theme in writing; Welsh countryside; see also Birdwatching; Weather
Nauplia, Greece
Naxos, Greece
Neimeyer, Carl
The Netherlands
New Criticism, Amy’s critique of
Newport, Wales
New Republic
The New School
Newspapers, confusion of
New Testament anthology, contribution to
New York City: Amy’s love of; anxieties of; crime in; housing crises in; increased dangers of; loss of character; Nixon’s residence in; poetry readings in; politics in; slices of life in; vs. small town life; theater in; water supply problems; see also Apartment on West 12th Street; Central Park; Weather
New York City Ballet
The New Yorker: and income boost for Amy; minor contributions to; on Nixon’s NYC residence; Our Man Stanley; ownership changes; publication of Amy’s poetry; style of poetry for
New York Magazine profile
New York Public Library
New York Times
Nineteenth century as Amy’s inspiration,
Nixon, Richard, townhouse of
Nixon in China (opera)
Nominalism
Nonconformity, Amy’s
Norris, Kathleen
Novel writing: break from Audubon Society for; crisis vs. job; in Iowa; mid-1960s; progress of; publishing frustrations with
Nuns: Amy’s impressions of; convent visits
Oberhaldt, Ralph Observation, Amy’s powers of: at Cambridge University; on Iowa; Italian memories; natural color contrasts; NYC life; on small-city Minnesota; on Winchester; see also Nature; People watching
Ocean voyages
O’Connor, Flannery
O’Dwyer, Paul
O’Hara, Frank
Olson, Charles
Olympia, Greece
On the Trail of Vanishing Birds (Allen)
Operas
Optimism, Amy’s
“Or Consider Prometheus” (Clampitt)
Origin of Species (Darwin)
Our Man Stanley (New Yorker)
Ovid
Oxford University
Oxford University Press
Pacifism, Amy on
Padua, Italy
Pain, emotional, virtues of
Paley, Grace
Palma, Spain
“Palm Sunday” (Clampitt)
Palm Sunday experience
Papp, Joseph
Paradise Lost (Milton)
Paradiso (Dante)
Parties and social life, see Social life and parties
Past vs. present, living in
Paul, Saint
Pavia, Italy
Peale, Norman Vincent
Penguin poem
Penrith, England
Pentagon of Power (Mumford)
People watching: in arrests for protesting; in Greece; and Italian greengrocer; in Italy; in Maine; on ocean voyages; at parties in NYC
Performance in front of audiences: enjoyment of; Iowa experience; overcoming of shyness in
Personal relationships: Amy’s privacy on; conflict of interest as basis for; with father; on fine line between love and hate; on friendships with women; generosity of friends; with Mary Russel; psychoanalysis affect on; truthfulness in; and virtues of emotional pain; youthful romances; see also Korn, Harold; Marcasiano, Peter
Petrement, Simone
Pettingill, Olin Sewall
Phi Beta Kappa poet, Amy as
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Philosophy: Amy’s comprehension difficulties with; and Keats; on Machiavelli; moral; nominalism
Philosophy in a New Key (Langer)
Pirsig, Robert
Plath, Sylvia
Play It As It Lays (Didion)
The Play of Daniel (church pageant)
Playwright, Amy as
Poe, Edgar Allan
Poetic Closure (Smith)
Poetry
Poetry and poets: Amy’s attraction to; Amy’s late entry into poetry; on Anthony Hecht; cultural revival of; dance themes; on Dylan Thomas; forms and styles; and George Eliot’s novels; Howard Moss on; inspirations; on James Merrill; judging of; and Keats; during last illness; letters to up-and-coming poets; on meetings with poets; on modernism in; personal transformation and poet’s birth; Peter’s rejection of Amy’s poem; pride in accomplishment; production levels; and reading of Bible aloud; sharing with other poets; on subjectivity of appreciation; teaching of poetry; Vermont as mecca for poets; virtues of reading aloud; William and Mary commission; workshop in poetry; see also Publishing of work; Readings, poetry
Poetry Northwest
Politics: Amy’s dedication to; anti-McCarthyism; antinuclear protests; anti-Vietnam War protests; in church power struggles; and disillusionment with Anglican Church; and elections; and function of art in culture; lack of long view in; NYC; and pacifism; Quaker roots of activism; reading of conservative ideas
Ponsot, Marie
Poor People’s Campaign
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog (Thomas)
Prayer, uses of
Present vs. past, living in
Presidential elections
Private property and Amy’s politics
Prose vs. poetry style; see also Novel writing
Prostitutes, life of
Protestantism, Amy’s critique of
Psychoanalysis: conflicted feelings about; and Philip’s depression; and religion
Publishing business, Amy on; see also Editorial/research jobs
Publishing of work: book collections; frustrations with novels; and life vs. literature; loss of desire for; poetry in magazines; possibilities for poems; on rejection notices
Purgatorio (Dante)
Pym, Barbara
Quakerism: Amy’s commentary on; and family history; vs. high Anglican church; and political activism; and simple life
Quinn, Alice
Quint, Robert
Radcliffe Camera
“Rain at Bellagio” (Clampitt)
Raine, Craig
Ransom, John Crowe
The Rapture (Lindsay)
Ravenna, Italy
Reader, Amy as: ancient Greek authors; and attention to style; biographies; and books as reflections of personality; on Camus; childhood favorites; and holistic fabric of history; natural world; 1950s choices; 1970s choices; 1980s choices; and old bookshops; overview; on personal growth through reading; reading aloud tradition; tiresomeness of books; and trading of books with friends
Readings, poetry: after-parties; in Boston; cultural revival of; in England; first performances; at Kenyon College; for Kingfisher launch; at Library of Congress; in NYC; and other poets; payment for
Recognition, public: Amy’s attitude toward; correspondence from old associates; fan letters; honorary degree at Bowdoin College; in Iowa; Phi Beta Kappa honor; William and Mary commission; see also Performance in front of audiences; Readings, poetry
Recorder, playing of
The Red and the Black (Stendhal)
Redouté, Pierre-Joseph
The Red Shoes (ballet)
Reference librarian work, see Audubon Society
Reform Democratic club
Reich, Charles
Relationships, see Personal relationships
Religion: Amy’s attraction to; art and music in; on Augustine; dogma vs. doctrine; and intuitive knowing of faith; Judaism; Protestantism’s shortcomings; Quakerism; Roman Catholicism; and seasonal rituals at churches; spirituality in nature; as subject of first inspired poem; and suffering as path to growth; virtues of; see also Anglican (Episcopal) Church
Reviewer, Amy as book
Rich, Adrienne
Riesman, David
Rigoletto (opera)
Rilke, Rainer Maria
Ritual, aesthetics of: Amy’s fondness for; Assisi commemoration; general appeal of; Greek Orthodox; and importance of funerals
Roman Catholicism
Romances: clues to Amy’s lovers; in Greece; and life lessons; and ocean voyage courting rituals; youthful; see also Korn, Harold
Rome, Italy
Rosen, Ken
Der Rosenkavalier (opera)
Rovere, Richard
Russel, Mary
Saint Augustine
Saint Cloud, Minnesota
Saint Francis of Assisi
Saint John Baptist, Community of
Saint Louis, Missouri
Saint Luke in the Fields, Church of, NYC
Saint Mark’s Church, NYC
Saint Paul
Saint Paul’s Church, Manhattan
Saint Thomas Aquinas
Salinger, J. D.
Salter, Mary Jo: Amy’s analysis of “Japanese Characters”; as Amy’s correspondent; birth of child; discovery of Amy; marriage of; publishing progress
“Salvage” (Clampitt)
Salzburg, Austria
Samos, Greece
Santa Fe, New Mexico
Santayana, George
Savannah, Georgia
Scandinavian Poetry Festival
The Scarlet Letter (Hawthorne)
Schnackenberg, Gjertrud
Schoenbrun, David
Schulman, Grace
Scientific approach, drawbacks of
Scribner’s publishing house
Seigel, Sam
Self-acceptance, human need for
Self-analysis, Amy’s
Self-interest and fear of independent thought
Self-righteousness, Amy on
Sestina form of poetry
Sewing
Sexton, Anne
Sexuality as sin
Shakespeare, William
Shakespearean plays in Central Park
Shawn, Wallace
Shearer, Moira
Shelley, Percy Bysshe
Sicily
Silas Marner (Eliot, G.)
Sills, Beverly
Simone Weil: A Life (Petrement)
Simple life, Amy’s comfort with
Sin and need for moral compass
Sister Mary John (née Anne Marshall)
Sister Thekla
Sleeplessness, Amy on
Smith, Barbara Herrnstein
Snodgrass, Jennifer
Social life and parties: at Audubon Society; for book launchings; on European sojourns; excessive singing at; with Goodmans; holiday season; hosting of; in Kansas City; and Mary Russel; and Monica’s new-found wealth; as moral imperative; and music appreciation; and NYC scene; original ambitions for; politically related; postpoetry reading; and real vs. superficial conversation; see also Cooking and cuisine; People watching
Society, Amy on
Solitude vs. company: and Amy’s dedication to reading; and Amy’s family environment; human need for both; and loneliness; solitude as sin of self-indulgence; and talking to self; for writers
Somerset, England
Sonnenberg, Ben
Sons and Lovers (Lawrence)
Sontag, Susan
Soul on Ice (Cleaver)
South, observations on the
Soviet Embassy bombing (1979)
Space exploration
Spain as stop-off on way to Italy
Specialization, inevitability of
Sphere (Ammons)
Spiegelman, Willard
Spirituality: Amy’s expanded; dogma vs. spiritual feeling; first poem as expression of; and nature; necessity of transcendent reality; spirit as more real than matter; summation of Amy’s Anglican; see also Religion
Squatters’ movement in NYC
Staffa, Scotland
Starbuck, George and Kathy
Stendhal (Henri-Marie Beyle)
Stephen, J. K.
Stevens, Wallace
Stevenson, Adlai
Stevenson, Anne
Stone, I. F.
Strand, Mark
Stromboli, Island of
Styles and forms, literary: Amy’s; Amy’s attention to as reader; New Yorker‘s preferred poetry style; poetic forms; and poetry-writing challenges
Suburbia, Amy on
Suez Canal crisis (1956)
Suffering as gateway to growth
“Sunday Music” (Clampitt)
“The Sun Underfoot Among the Sundews” (Clampitt)
Swenson, May
Switzerland visit
The Taming of the Shrew (Shakespeare)
Teaching profession, critique of; see also Academic life
Telepathic experiences
Terza rima poem
Theater: Amy as playwright; in Central Park; in England; in NYC; religious; student staging of Waiting for Godot
Thekla, Sr.
The Lonely Crowd (Riesman)
Thesiger, Wilfred
Thomas, Dylan
Thoreau, Henry David
“The Tides” (Clampitt)
Tinbergen, Niko
Tindall, William York
Tintern Abbey
Tortoise story
Toynbee, Arnold J.
Transformation, personal, Amy on
Translation projects
Travel, Amy’s love of; see also individual destinations
Travel sketches writing idea
Trevelyan, G. M.
The True Believer (Hoffer)
Truth, Amy on
Turner, Frederick: on Amy’s essay; on Amy’s poetry reading performance; Amy’s reluctance to meet; dedication of poem to; hosting of Amy; on James Merrill
Turner, Lana
Turner, Mei Lin
12th Street apartment, see Apartment on West 12th Street
Tyrrell, Arthur
United Kingdom, see England
University of Massachusetts
Varieties of Religious Experience (James)
Vendler, Helen: Amy’s regard for; comments on Amy’s work; as correspondent; initial interest in Amy’s poetry; Keats book by; meetings with; support for Amy; surgery of
“Venice Revisited” (Clampitt)
Vermont
Vesuvius, Mount
Vietnam War: and disenchantment with church; letter to Kissinger; protests against
Village Independent Democrats
Villanelle as exercise in poetry writing
Villa Serbelloni, Bellagio, Italy
Vocation, Amy on
“Voltaire at Ferney” (Clampitt)
Vonnegut, Kurt
Vosburgh, John
Voting, Amy on
The Voyage of the Beagle (Darwin)
“Voyages: A Homage to John Keats” (Clampitt)
Waard, Ely de
Waiting for Godot (Beckett), staging of
Wakulla Springs, Tennessee
Wales and Welsh singing
Wall, Bea Mills
Wall, Joe
Warren, Rosanna
Washington, DC
Washington Square Park
Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri
The Waste Land (Eliot, T. S.)
Wayne State University
Weather: and birds in Central Park; in England; foggy NYC; in Iowa; in Italy; on ocean liners; rainy NYC; spring in NYC; summer in NYC; as theme in letter writing; winter in NYC
Weaver, Richard M.
Weed, Fr.
Weil, Simone
West, Nathanael
Weston, Edward
West 12th Street apartment, see Apartment on West 12th Street
What the Light Was Like (Clampitt)
White, Gilbert
Whitman, Walt
Wilbur, Richard
William and Mary College
Williams, William Carlos
Winchester, England
The Wings of the Dove (James, H.)
Wittgenstein, Ludwig
Women: Amy on gender relations; difficulties in friendships with; and feminine origins of intuition; in George Eliot’s novels
The Women’s Room (Durrell)
Wood, John
Woolf, Virginia
Wordsworth, Dorothy
Wordsworth, Richard
Wordsworth, William
Wouk, Herman
Writer-in-residence positions, see Academic life
Writing career: confidence in style; and distractions of NYC social scene; essays; ghost-writing; jobs as interfering with; vs. love of living; naturalness of for Amy; see also Novel writing; Poetry and poets; Styles and forms, literary
Wuthering Heights (Brontë)
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (Pirsig)