Word: crepuscular
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Dates: during 1924-1924
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...living in an age and a land vigorously dramatic. Some forty years ago Edmund Clarence Stedman, lamenting "the twilight of the poets," predicted that the next important movement would be in the theatre. It might not be easy to convince the free versiflors that their genius is fading in crepuscular gloom. But the playwrites have no doubt whatever that they are ascending the skies on the car of Aurora. Young and old, they are up and doing in the tank town and the university no less than in Broadway. If the eager groping of the many proves wiser than those...