Word: epics
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Significance. This first part of St. Reymont's epic of the soil is "a panorama of the whole round of peasant life, a brilliant picture of Polish nature ... the tragic sense of the elemental forces which dominate the efforts of the tillers of the soil." The work is truly epic in its scope, a carefully worked, heroic pattern. It is a sweeping view of Poland, ground under the imperial heel of Russia...
...soon be graced, or disgraced, by a jazz opera--bizarre monster which could only be conceived in this land of Puritan hymnals and Hottentot orgiastic syncopation. The jazz-some scores of American popular ballads of "blues" and "mammies" are to be metamorphosed from their present fragmentary staff into an epic-like opera of the formerly humble working girl. Where princeases and courtesans footed nimbly across the stage and devastated admirers with their blasting rant, the tender shop or factory girl, the Cinderella princess of the automobile and ready-made clothes, will share her melodious sorrows and joys with stiff shirted...
...busily prepared the advent of this luxuriously equipped film with announcements that it was a second Covered Wagon. When it arrived, it turned out to be a steam engine instead of a prairie schooner and not such an irresistable choo-choo at that. The story attempts to be an epic commemoration of the spanning of the U. S. with steel rails. It is probably pretty good history but there was oil on the tracks somewhere and the drama never got completely under...
...Significance. The book is a faery epic, astonishingly perfect. Its creatures will be recognized by Arthur Rackham and others who have traced the fairy folk. Its uncertain twilights are those that Yeats and Fiona Macleod and James Stephens have peered through. James Branch Cabell, who well knows the uses of buttered willow withes, will understand its magic. It must have been written "at an hour when hawkmoths first pass from bell to bell." Its meaning and its melody are "like the notes of a band of violins, all played by masters chosen from many ages, hidden on Midsummer...
...hope that in a nearby day some great, prescient genius will arise and sing the songs of that great epoch, linking Gettysburg with Chicamauga and Nashville with Franklin in one grand epic poem...