Word: allottments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rainer Maria Rilke ($4.50), the first full-length study of a great German poet. Others were Peter Quennell's arch Byron in Italy ($3.50) and Arthur Hobson Quinn's heavy, thorough Edgar Allan Poe ($5). Garrett Mattingly's Catherine of Aragon ($3.50) and Kenneth Allott's smart Jules Verne...
JULES VERNE-Kennefh Allott-Macmillan...
Unwittingly, this hard-working recluse had caught the whole spirit of the 19th Century, which made a faith of science. Its scientists "had about them an air of divine assurance." This faith was rooted, says Author Allott, not in Rousseau, nor in the "rational" 18th Century, but in the dynamic Renaissance and the Reformation. The idea of progress "was a Renaissance bedtime story" which seemed to come true in the 19th Century's tremendous technical realizations. Cities took on their colossal power, intricacy and ugliness; the Machine...
...toughest of them remained within their urban prison, cultivating the stoic pose of the dandy, who scrutinized putrescence through a monocle. "To the real artist it was almost necessary to be blasphemous or mad." Indeed, "the 19th Century left the defense of primary values to madmen." Much of Allott's thesis is summed up in that arresting sentence. And pointing to such diverse phenomena as Tarzan and T. S. Eliot, he argues that 19th-Century romanticism persists to this...