Word: cressida
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...clue to the Trojan War not in Paris' seduction of Helen but in the opposing temperaments of the Greeks, whose civilization is on the make, and the Trojans, whose civilization is (in the best sense) finished. She makes her mouth piece-heroine a character unmentioned by Homer-Cressida, daughter of the Trojan's Chief Priest of Apollo, ill-famed in literature (by Boccaccio, Chaucer, Shakespeare) as a heartless jilt. Chosen as a central character because her "legendary real" identity offers the widest freedom for creating a sensitive female observer, Laura Riding's Cressida is not jilt...
Approaching Honolulu in his yacht the Cressida, George Vanderbilt his wife and three friends put on bathing suits, put off in a speedboat and skimmed ashore. Next day the Vanderbilts & friends were fined $500 each for evading customs inspection...
TROILUS & CRESSIDA - Geoffrey Chaucer; Englished anew by George Philip Krapp-Random House ($3.50). Geoffrey Chaucer (circa 1340-1400), whom posterity has agreed to call a pretty poet, has had his ups & downs. Many a lesser man, making light of Chaucer's archaic English, has tried to re-drape his sturdy uncouthness in modern dress. 17th-century Poet John Dryden ("Chaucer, I confess, is a rough Diamond; and must first be polish'd e'er he shines") was one. Latest is Columbia Professor George Philip Krapp. Partly because new books are scarce around Christmastime, partly because Random House...
...PLAYS & POEMS OF W. S. GILBERT- Random House ($3.50). RECORDS OF NORTH AMERICAN BIG GAME-edited by Prentiss N. Gray- Derry dale Press ($10). RIDING REFLECTIONS-Piero Santini- Derrydale Press ($10). THE SILVER HORN-Gordon Grand- Derrydale Press ($7.50). TENNIS ORIGINS & MYSTERIES-Malcolm D. Whitman - Derrydale Press ($10). TROILUS & CRESSIDA-Geoffrey Chaucer -Random House ($3.50). See below. THE WESTERN PONY-William R. Leigh -Huntington Press...