Word: caucassin
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Dates: during 1917-1917
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...essay, Mr. Hillyer's "Caucassin and Nicolette," is a charmingly pictorial evocation of vague literary atmosphere, a mood induced by the tale rather than an essay dealing with it. The style suffers a little in places from the sort of poeticizing that marred Oscar Wilde's "Poems in Prose," but is one the whole graphic and full of sensuous charm. The first paragraph might have been written by Turgenieff, so vivid is it and so full of the very scent and rustle of a landscape...
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