A Book of Days for the Literary Year [antikvár]

A Drunkard cannot meet a Cork / Without a RevcryAnd so encountering a Fly / This January Day Jamaicas of Remembrance stir / That send me reeling in.EMILY DICKINSONnew year s day1660 Samuel Pepys records the first entry in his Diary: "This morning (we lying lately in the garret) I rose, put on my suit with great skirts, having not lately worn any other clothes but them." 1716 William Wycherley, dramatist (The Country Wife), dies at about 75 in London. 1811 James Fenimore Cooper, 21, marries Susan DeLancey in Mamaroneck, N.Y., where Cooper is attempting to farm. 1854 Sir James Frazer, author of Tfte Golden Bough, is born in Glasgow. 1879 E. M. Forster (A Passage to India; Howards End) is born in London. In May 1917 Katherine Mansfield will write in her journal: "Forster never gets any further than warming the teapot. . . . Feel this teapot. Is it not beautifully warm? Yes, but there ain't going to be no tea." 1909 When Marcel Proust, on about this date, dips a rusk of toast in hi^ tea, the flavor brings back a rush of childhood memories that become the basis for the famous madeleine episode in Swanns Way, from which the structure of Remembrance of Things Past evolves. 1919 J. D. Salinger (The Catcher in the Rye) is born in New York City.1894 Poet and novelist Robert Nathan (Portrait of ]ennie) is born in New York City. 1920 Prolific science fiction author Isaac Asimov (The Foundation Trilogy) is born in Petrovichi, Russia. 1929 When Max Perkins meets Thomas Wolfe for the first time, to discuss the manuscript of Look Homeward, Angel, Wolfe's "wild hair and bright countenance" remind the Scribner's editor of Shelley. 1942 Sinclair Lewis and Dorothy Thompson are divorced in Woodstock, Vt., after B years of marriage.Title page of the 1638 edition of T/ie Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton, who died January 25, 1640.January