Word: essayistic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...GEORGIAN HOUSE-Frank Swinnerton-Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). Comedy of English village life, by England's most pedestrian essayist...
Professor Eliot, who has in recent years lived in London as a British citizen, where he is editor of "The Criterion," is widely known, both as a poet and critical essayist. He received "The Dial" award for poetry in 1922. His most widely, known works are: "The Sacred Wood," "The Waste Land," "Homage to John Dryden," "Poems: 1909-1925," "An Essay of Poetic Drama," "Shakespeare and the Stoicism of Seneca," "For Lancelot Andrews" and "Dante...
...biographer (Damaged Souls, Darwin, The Quick & The Dead); after lingering illness; in Wellesley Hills, Mass. Eighth in lineal descent from Governor William Bradford of Plymouth Colony, he termed himself a "psychographer." Critics called him "the U. S. Lytton Strachey," rated him less urbane and epigrammatic but more profound. An essayist and editorialist (for the Boston Herald), he said: "My biographical work is laborious and hard. . . . But plays and novels! It's easy and fun to write them. . . . That's what . . . I've done year after year without much encouragement." Biographer Bradford, though sickly all his life, wrote...
...more by suggestion and implication than by action. Save for the first act which starts at a fountain-head of irritation, and streams along until the floodgates burst and matricide results, the force of the piece is derived from the pathetic circumstances which inextricably bound the lives of the essayist and his demented sister...
...above is true because in 1793 a boy was born who was destined to become one of America's greatest literary figures, called Washington Irving. He was one of the most versatile figures in the country's literature. An ambassador to Spain, a biographer of Mohamet, of Washington, an essayist of some eminence, a lawyer of none, the coiner of the phrase, "the almighty dollar," all these things he was. For delicacy and precision of style he has few superiors in America. "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" and "The Alhambra" show a grace and beauty that is carefully wrought, while...