Word: endymion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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REQUIEM-Humbert Wolfe-Dor-an ($1.50). In English drawing-rooms which once echoed with frantic praise of Shelley's Adonais or censure of Keats' Endymion people now prefer, if literature must be mentioned, to comment briefly on what Bernard Shaw said to the old lady from Nantucket. The one astounding exception to this rule is found in the poetry of Humbert Wolfe, a young Briton whose work has actually inserted itself into the lists of best sellers. Possessed of a dexterous though partly imitative technique, it has none of the raucous and hurtling sentiment which usually gives poetry...
...world sees ?leaf, thorn, flower?she deftly appraises; what few can see?the seed that springs in mystery, the slow roots thrusting through the dark of the mind to flower in beauty?she reveals with psychology for her spade. By this method, she puts the whole of Endymion through psychological reconstruction; explains why the Ode to a Grecian Urn is a "flawless example of clear, unvexed, wide-eyed beauty"; the Ode to a Nightingale "a no less perfect presentation of absolute magic"; why "Keats' whole soul was in The Eve of St. Agnes"; Hyperion she scores as "a failure...
Divisionals are Lowelling along the Homer Wace. Lamarck boards the Hollow Ships Darwin the Human Race. Swinburnes Bacons Sophocles, but Mills with Henry VII; the Roses York with Glorianna, manna falls from Heaven, Rousseauing down Endymion the Frogs are all Gladstoning Grote Joshua's Farewell Address. The Last Duchess, intoning, Lloyd John's Reform is Billing Swift, while Benton Ruskins Contract. Layamon, Macduff, the Brut! Godzooks! 'Tis well-known for a fact Hannibal Island's Robinhood is easy on the Style. Cowper all Lovelacely full went Reading to Carlyle, Chaucer Canterburies Nietzche with the milk of human wiehes; Saint-Saens...
...most valuable addition to the exhibitions of Keats' relies now being shown at the Widener Library in honor of the centennial of the poet's death, was received from Mr. J. P. Morgan yesterday. Chief among the treasures is the original manuscript of the famous poem "Endymion." In this manuscript may be found Keats' original inscription, "With every feeling of pride and regret and with 'a bowed mind' to the memory of the most English of Poets except Shakespeare, Thomas Chatterton." Fearing that such an inscription would arouse controversy, Keats' publisher induced him to change his dedication so that...
...Keats' period. Among these are a collection of editions of Keats' poems, with manuscripts, portraits, and views taken partly from the Library's own shelves, and partly from the private collections of friends. Some of the volumes have interesting personal associations. A copy of the first edition of "Endymion", lent by Mrs. Frank B. Bemis of Boston, is the copy sent by Keats to Shelley and inscribed "P. B. Shelley Esq. with J. K.'s sincere regards...