[Alex Pepple]

Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart from a line in W.B. Yeats's The Second Coming.

[R. S. Gwynn]

I just finished Barbara Pym's Some Tame Gazelle. You really know your 19th century poets if you know that one. I'm getting ready to read A Glass of Blessings, which I did recognize.

[Jim Hayes]

Good one that Michael, my own personal favorite is The Quiet Woman

[Gail White]

Originally Posted by R. S. Gwynn

Ah, don't forget Murder Most Foul.

Just saw Blithe Spirit on Broadway, by the way, and am now reading Some Tame Gazelle.

Ah, another Barbara Pym fan in the making!
I've read them all, but "Gazelle" is still my favorite.

(and don't forget her other title/quotation: "The Sweet Dove Died.")

[Gail White]

Further on this topic, I've always fancied calling a book "Little Nourishment" in tribute to Elinor Wylie:

Let no charitable hope
Confuse my mind with images
Of eagle or of antelope:
I am by nature none of these.

I was, being human, born alone.
I am, being woman, hard beset.
I live by squeezing from a stone
The little nourishment I get.

In masks outrageous and austere
The years go by in single file,
But none has merited my sneer,
And none has quite escaped my smile.

[Gregory Dowling]

John wrote:

I once wrote a detective story myself (unpublished and, I think, just as well) and called it Dishonoured Shroud. When I did so it occured to me thast that quatrain of Eliot would give us an almost endless stream of tiitles.

Someone Indistinct
At the Door Apart
The Nightingales are Singing
The Convent of the Sacred Heart
The Bloody Wood
When Agamemnon Cried Aloud
Liquid Siftings
Stain the Stiff

Michael Innes actually did do The Bloody Wood - and in very Michael Innes fashion the characters in the opening pages engage in a battle of quotations about nightingales (they also prove central to the plot). Stain the Stiff is great. Somebody should use it (maybe I will).

And yes, There Came Both Mist and Snow is another Michael Innes - and a very good one.

[Esther Murer]

The British/Canadian Sara Woods wrote 48 legal whodunits, almost all with titles from Shakespeare.

Esther Murer