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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Robert Frost who last year retired from his professorship of English at Amherst, will give the second poetry lecture some time in November. The nature of his talk has not yet been determined...
Despite the burden of versatility, Churchill has succeeded in writing one impressive work: a six-volume biography of his famous Whig ancestor, John Churchill, first Duke of Marlborough, the English Napoleon. The last volume, published last week, is perhaps the most interesting, is also the volume in which Author Churchill had to wage his stoutest defense...
...enemies: Harley, St. John, Queen Anne, Dean Swift. But it adds up to something less than Author Churchill intended. What he proves, chiefly, is that Marlborough was merely no worse than his enemies. They signed a pussyfoot treaty at Utrecht but probably prevented a revolution of the war-weary English masses. They drove Marlborough to exile, but he revenged himself with interest when he returned to riches and honors at Queen Anne's death. They hatched the great South Sea Bubble swindle, but Marlborough forced the Government to build fabulously costly Blenheim Palace as his reward for being...
Distaste for the literary classics is an inhibition commonly traced to English teachers. Cures are rare. On the contrary, the psychosis is likely to be aggravated by stuffed-shirt critics, lecturers, anthologists, Five Foot Shelves. An accidental cure sometimes occurs when a reader stumbles on to a first-rate modern critic, who illuminates the classics with insight and imagination while advising the reader to follow his own reason, draw his own conclusions. An honest reader, if he believes that Shakespeare is junk, and can say why, does the cause of great literature less harm than the snobbish or timid...
...hammer home this thought, two impassioned English oldsters-Powys is 66, Ford 65-give their best to prove to common readers that the classics are good reading. Both are concerned with the literary rather than the biographical aspect of their subjects, both agree on their main admirations: Homer, Shakespeare, the Bible, the Greek tragedies, Dostoyevsky; neither has much use for the scientific and political spirit of contemporary letters...