Word: edwardianism
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...Grimm illustrations brought Rackham, who died in 1939, his first great success. But he went on to do nearly everything from Scrooge to Cinderella, from The Sleeping Beauty to The Wind in the Willows. Rackham's gnarled giants, dark woods and pallid, feathery Edwardian maidens still compel-and the price of this new edition is commendably...
...grandfathers were Anglican clergymen. He studied biology at Oxford and at the end of his life held a chair there at Christ College. He could (and did) recently write, "Our earth in 19697 Is not the planet I call mine/ ... My Eden landscapes and their climes/ Are constructs from Edwardian times." Early in his career, he could (and did) produce one of the most beautiful love lyrics ever written: "Lay your sleeping head, my love,/ Human on my faithless...
...Columbia; $5.98). Wildly famous in his day, the stately, sunlit tonal landscapes of Sir Edward Elgar withered before the 20th century's neoclassic revolt. Elgar died nearly forgotten in 1934. In this stylish reading of the E-flat symphony Daniel Barenboim takes a fresh look at the elegant Edwardian, holding a course of gentle restraint against an exuberance of leaping octaves and rolling timpani. Barenboim reclaims the Elgar grandeur without losing any of the buoyancy that captivated 19th century audiences...
PLUMB WRITES ABOUT everything from Detroit today to insane asylums for the last half millenium, and in case anyone objects that the two really are not so different, he throws in reflections on Samuel Pepys's diaries, Victorian social habits, and the tempo of life in Edwardian England...
...Kotlowitz has been the managing editor of Harpers magazine, and is currently a director of New York's Channel 13. In Somewhere Else, Kotlowitz's imagination fetches back through Jewish generations not only to find the bloodnests and tangles of family life in 19th century Poland and Edwardian England but to reinvent the precise gestures and textures and words and smells of those times. That of course is what any historical novelist tries to do-a kind of retrospective new journalism. But Kotlowitz's premise is more complicated. His novel seems an act of familial, almost racial...