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Richard Savage, the poet, is almost a nonentity. But Savage as the friend of Pope and Samuel Johnson becomes a highly important figure in early eighteenth century English literature. And as the claimant to the title of "bastard son of the late Earl Rivers" he has created an aura of wonder which approaches an unfinished fairy tale...
Professor Clarence Tracy of the University of Saskatchewan has attempted to sort legend from fact in The Artificial Bastard. In a scholarly, dispassionate way, he weighs the existing evidence about Savage, reaches conditional conclusions, and in doing so reveals the social and literary environment of the eighteenth century. Like all Savage's biographers, Tracy is particularly concerned with His claim to nobility as it seems to be the key to Savage's complex personality...
When someone came back from the interview room he was besieged with questions: What did they ask you? Wasn't the guy on the right a bastard, Did they try to draw you into an argument, Did they ask you about the Ike speech? What...
Last October fiery William Kelly, Republican candidate for Parliament in Northern Ireland and a Roman Catholic, made a promise to his constituents. "I will not," he declared, "take the oath of allegiance to a foreign Queen of a bastard nation." When elected, Kelly refused to take his seat. Last week, in a North Irish court, he was found guilty of sedition, and given the alternative of posting a $280 bond for five years' good behavior or going to jail for a year. Cantankerous Kelly chose jail. But, said he, "I will never submit to wearing prison garb...
...Stir up the fire, Lucio . . . You have the whip and the little knife? Good . . . I don't believe he's Jack-fool enough to resist." But Richard Morandi, a bastard descendant of Stuart kings, is not one to let himself be castrated in front of his sweetheart without fighting back. Since it is Venice and the 18th century, Richard has a knife of his own up his sleeve, and he knows how to use it. Many a lesser novelist would be out of climaxes after Richard dispatches his enemy, but Novelist Samuel Shellabarger has lots more...