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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thus, in his Extempore Effusion upon the Death of James Hogg, Poet William Wordsworth solemnized the deaths of Poet-Critic Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Essayist Charles Lamb. Inhabitants of London's historic Inner Temple saw Lamb in a somewhat different context. Sometimes the door of his house near the Thames would open, and out would come Essayist Lamb and his sister Mary, carrying a strait jacket, and quietly crying. All Inner Temple Lane knew that meant that Mary was about to go insane again, and that Charles was taking her to the safety of the local asylum. They also...
...Curies is so well done that it almost makes the spectator tired. The search progresses until the search seems fruitless and then in a flash they realize their triumph. The triumph may seem anti-climactic but this is a story which must be understood in its wider context of radium's benefits to mankind...
...TIME, Feb. 19, 1934) became a synonym for the smalltime U.S. tough guy. With dogged earnestness, a lot of firsthand factuality (Farrell was born the son of a Chicago teamster in 1904) and a total lack of humor, Farrell painstakingly traced Studs's dingy career and its social context through three slablike volumes. None of the Studs series was quite as good as Volume I, but in the general flatness of U.S. letters, the trilogy raised Novelist Farrell to a knoblike eminence...
...same reason, Popes' lives are written chiefly after their deaths. The biography of a living Pope is officially meager. Pius XII is no exception. But his biographical skeleton is important for the context of history it reveals...
...called Forster and the Liberal Imagination, which set liberal tongues fussily wagging when it appeared in somewhat different form in the Kenyan Review last year. For this chapter is a shrewd study of the prevailing mentality-the liberal mind-and the first successful attempt to set Forster in the context of his time, to explain why Forster irritates so many people by "his refusal to be great," why he is a liberal "at war with liberalism...