Word: epochal
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WRITTEN in the leisurely tempo of the epoch which is its setting, "The Singing Swan" brings another character of Doctor Johnson's time to modern literature. Anna Seward, poetess, romanticist, and the woman who dared to beard the dean of English lexicographers to his face, finds kind if at times somewhat detailed treatment at the hands of her biographer, Margaret Ashmun...
...Vale and Other Poems" is not an epoch-making volume, but then, in this day of poets and poetasters whose name is legion, it is a pleasant one to read. The poems it contains, though quiet, are profound, and admirers of the author will put it down still assured of the poet's gift...
...back on the floor; peering from a bunch of balloons; reflected in a mirror. To this is added a not nearly so flattering drawing and a slightly malicious little essay. The motif of many of his photographs and all of his drawings is charmingly and stuffily Edwardian, the epoch which is presently amusing England's Bright Young People. Photographic effects which he loses by scratchy, amateurish retouching are regained by cleverly arranged profusions of artificial flora, drapery, gimcracks, for Photographer Beaton is admittedly inspired by the early fashion pictures of Lallie Charles in the Sketch and Tatler. Beauties immortalized...
Here is the history of American life as it was lived in the years before the rumblings of the World War heralded the end of an epoch...
...epoch-making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but by the spoken word...