EServer: Today In History: September 5

We know of 3 events of note in literature and the arts that occurred on September 5:

The American poet Elinor Wylie was born on this day in 1885. The temperamental artist showed up at the door of Katherine Ann Porter's New York apartment one day declaring that she was about to commit suicide and Porter was the only person that she felt kindly enough toward to say good-bye to. Porter, sensing, I suppose her theatricality, said, "How sweet of you to think of me, Elinor, Good-bye." and shut the door. Wylie lived on.
The Flemish painter Pieter Breughel the Elder died on this day in 1569. He painted many domestic scenes with allegorical implications, such as The Fall of Icarus, which Auden made famous in his poem "Musée de Beaux Arts."
The novelist Arthur Koestler, who wrote Darkness at Noon, about the Stalinist-era purges, was born on this day in Budapest. An advocate of euthanasia, he and his wife, both ill, took their lives in 1983.

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		We know of 3 events of note in literature and the arts that occurred on September 5: The American poet Elinor Wylie was born on this day in 1885. The temperamental artist showed up at the door of Katherine Ann Porter's New York apartment one day declaring that she was about to commit suicide and Porter was the only person that she felt kindly enough toward to say good-bye to. Porter, sensing, I suppose her theatricality, said, "How sweet of you to think of me, Elinor, Good-bye." and shut the door. Wylie lived on. The Flemish painter Pieter Breughel the Elder died on this day in 1569. He painted many domestic scenes with allegorical implications, such as The Fall of Icarus, which Auden made famous in his poem "Musée de Beaux Arts." The novelist Arthur Koestler, who wrote Darkness at Noon, about the Stalinist-era purges, was born on this day in Budapest. An advocate of euthanasia, he and his wife, both ill, took their lives in 1983.