CAAF: Morning coffee

• Whence sprang Miss Havisham? Charles Nickerson argues that a Disraeli novel, Venetia, based on the lives of Byron and Shelley, may have been an inspiration. (Australia responds, “*cough* Emily Eliza Donnithorne.”)
• Dan Chiasson on the poetry and personality of Frank O’Hara: “… where most poets deposited words with an eyedropper, O’Hara sprayed them through a fire hose.”