Word: acold
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...smelling of neurosis, manic depression and similar 20th-Century ills. Collier offers a fuller-blooded evil often conjured up with appropriate 17th-Century English suggesting the grimmer scenes of King Lear. From that play he plucked titles for two former books: Defy the Foul Fiend and Tom's Acold. Author Collier, 39, has hitherto rusticated in Hampshire, England, now finds Virginia more suited for the cultivation of prose, verse and prize-winning flowers. But the label "whimsy" withers within ten feet of his pungent, multifoliate fancies...
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