Word: authorities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...moreover, very good on the whole, and few writers can produce a life-like image in so few words as can Mr. Cozzens. And in addition to being convincing, his people have the eminently desirable virtue of being amusing--the combination forming a nice evidence of the author's talent. Their conversation crackles with a verve that is seldom actually attained on Wall or Main or Maple Street, though, in truth, the whole book is pitched in that vivid key, kindly reserved by Providence for fiction...
Despite the limitations of space and style selected by the author a well knit, compelling novel has been evolved. As a recorder of the current of emotion florving and ebbing in society at a wedding breakfast, it probably remains alone in the field...
...perfectly clear that the author's intention is to lay bare without any compromise the real significance of the story of Samson and Deliah. Not the moral side, however. He gives us the bald sexual narrative in all its conspicuousness. The sapping of the powerful muscular strength of the giant because of his infatuation for philistine women is hardly pleasant when the veil of old narrative in directness is stripped aside. Especially when...
...impetus he now gives us a collection of short stories. Some of them were written before the prize novel, some after. At all events, they somehow, fail to hit the mark. The opening tale, from which the collection draws its name, is an intimation of a desire of the author's to get away from the middle western background and attitude which featured his novel. In the future he will seek new fields to exploit and will let alone the Middle West which he believes is fast losing its character...
...publications include the Oxford Book of Latin verse, 1912. He is the author of numerous books of criticism, and the editor of several editions of verse, both classical and modern. At one time he was editor of the Journal of Philology...