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academic career. He was, Rubin writes, "a man in full emotional recoil from democracy, the middle class, religious latitudinarianism, and the cramp of the flesh. His adopted English identity became a badge of virtue to signify his emaricipation from vulgarity." And his poetry was a way for him to assert "an intensely per- sonal appetite for suffering, an agonizing fear of sexual appetite, and a shrinking from carnality, along with a desperate need for religious cer- tainty...