Kappus's sporadic letters tracked Rilke around Europe as he went from Paris to Viareggio to Bremen to Rome to Sweden; 10 letters over six years, so Rilke, himself a prodigious letter-writer, could hardly have felt he was being pestered.
He was, indeed, brilliant, as testified by the prodigious quantities of poems, letters, stories and other papers he left behind.
His many extant letters reveal his prodigious ministerial energy; he was also irascible and a ruthless authoritarian.
A "prodigious" drinker ("Hangovers," he wrote in a letter to Jessica Mitford, "were drowned like kittens the following morning"), Fermor also never relinquished what Cooper terms "his weakness for the sleazier pleasures of the night".
The American Petroleum Institute, which leads the oil and gas industry's prodigious lobbying efforts, responded to Obama's letter with a statement attributed to chief economist John Felmy.
As big-hearted and unstintingly critical as Gray's own work, it is a fittingly entertaining tribute to this prodigious and vastly influential man of images and letters.
According to White, who had done prodigious research into the author's life, using her letters as well as her fiction, essays, and poetry, it was rumored that Porter had thirty-seven lovers and three (or was it six?) husbands.
Friends of friends, nieces of friends and even the elevator operator in his building enjoyed the benefits of Comptroller H. Carl McCall's prodigious correspondence throughout the years, according to the 61 letters on state stationery that Mr. McCall released yesterday.
The Letters of Robert Lowell, edited by Saskia Hamilton, display his prodigious talent for prose, as well as offering an intimate portrait of his friendships with figures as diverse as John Berryman and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.
Though Obama has followed his beat Hillary script to the letter, he also has shown enough political skills, stump charisma, and the prodigious ability to pile up a king's ransom campaign chest to be a bona fide competitive Democratic contender against McCain.
The intense five-day Scrabble tournament ended with a showdown in the most skilled division for a $10,000 prize, won by Nigel Richards, a four-time champion who strung together a prodigious (and clean) "four-bingo" coup: four interlaced words of seven or eight letters each, no short cop-outs.
