Word: ariels
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Also Martin Karplus of Newton and Adams House; Robert Kenyon Nesbet of Lakewood, Ohio and Kirkland House; Anthony Gervin Oettinger of New York and Lowell House; and Ariel Zemach of New York and Kirkland House...
...1920s, Andre Maurois wrote Ariel, a pastiche of Shelley's life which was neither imaginative enough to be a good novel nor close enough to history to be a good biography. But since Ariel was highly readable, and since a lot of people proved to be curious about romantic poets, Maurois soon had a hit on his hands. With this encouragement he turned out polished and readable, and somewhat empty lives of Disraeli, Byron and Dickens. Reread today, such Maurois works seem pretty thin; where the peerless Lytton (Eminent Victorians) Strachey was genuinely witty, Maurois was merely suave; where...