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SHELLEY: A LIFE STORY (388 pp.)-Edmund Blunden-Viking...
This new biography has been greeted in England as the first really satisfactory life of England's great romantic poet. U.S. critics should agree that, though Newman Ivey White's trenchant and scholarly two-volume Shelley (1940) has more information, Edmund Blunden's book has all that's necessary for a solid interpretation. A very fair poet himself, Blunden writes of Shelley devotedly, but with the ease and savor of long personal familiarity-not only with Shelley's works, but with his period (1792-1822), the scenes in which he lived and the mass...
...coming by a little ray, made up of such minds." A few days later their friend Percy Bysshe Shelley, aged 29, vanished with his fated little sailboat into a sultry Mediterranean storm. The next ages have been only fitfully aware of Shelley as a gigantic thinker. And Blunden's biography scarcely supports that description; but it shows the poetry maturing with the man: eloquent, fervorous, audacious, imaginative...
Lord David feels that for Thomas Hardy this time has now safely elapsed-"the world he lived in is as much a part of vanished history as the world of Queen Elizabeth." Hardy the Novelist is the first important study in its field since Edmund Blunden's Thomas Hardy. Composed of a series of lectures delivered at Oxford (Lord David, 44, youngest son of the Marquess of Salisbury, is a Fellow of New College), it lacks the polished style and brilliance that made Author Cecil's The Young Melbourne (TIME, Aug. 28, 1939) one of the finest biographies...
CHALLENGE TO DEATH-Viscount Cecil, Storm Jameson et al.-Button ($2). Fifteen British writers (among them: Rebecca West, Vera Brittain, Julian Huxley, J. B. Priestley, Edmund Blunden) inveigh against...