Word: crosland
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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English-speaking readers now have a chance to see what the controversy was about, with the publication in Britain of Minou's First Poems, translated by Poet-Biographer Margaret Crosland (Hamish Hamilton, London). There is nothing in the 20 poems to suggest that they could not have been written by a very precocious child, and at the same time nothing to keep them from being judged as poetry rather than child's play. The verses are set in the serpentine typography that Minou believes necessary because "I reread better written like this." Typical was Tree that I Love...
COLETTE: A PROVINCIAL IN PARIS (282 pp.)-Margaret Crosland-British Book Centre...
...Flight from the Factory. This new biography-appearing less than two weeks after Colette's death in Paris at 81 -has its limitations as a book. Biographer Crosland lacks two important qualities...
...full critical grasp of Colette's work. Author Crosland is so devoted to her subject that the book is full of clumsy curtsies-as when Colette's perceptiveness as a movie critic is illustrated with the un fortunate statement: "She . . . knew that the name of Mickey Rooney would be heard again." Nonetheless, the book is a timely and handsome reminder of an extraordinary career...
Colette, says Biographer Margaret Crosland, "cannot be only partially accepted. One accepts everything or dismisses her completely." In fact, a case can be made that exactly the reverse is true. Colette was revered as a queen of French literature not because her kingdom was boundless, but because it was strictly limited and superbly governed. The subjects of Queen Colette have no souls, no morals, no politics, no intellects. Their aim is to devour the maximum of sensuous pleasure at the price of a pain that they often find most enjoyable, e.g., Chéri's heroine gets...