@artkavanagh Matt Kaul commented by email, 23-Sep-2024

I really enjoyed this essay, Art—thank you.
My favorite book of Hazzard’s is her brief memoir of befriending Graham Greene in Italy, *Greene on Capri*.

Interestingly, her first encounter with Greene resembles “The Statue & the Bust”: Greene is trying to recite “The Lost Mistress” for a friend, but can’t remember the last line. Hazzard, overhearing the conversation, stops by their table as she is leaving the cafe, recites the line, then leaves. Only later do Greene and Hazzard actually meet.

My reply, 25-Sep-2024:

Thanks for the comment, Matt.

I must read Greene on Capri. I had seen somewhere that she had first encountered Greene when she supplied the last line of a poem he’d been quoting. I hadn’t known that the poem had been one of Browning’s.