Word: fabulistic
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Whether a fine poetess (Selected Poems, 1935, What Are Years, 1941, Nevertheless, 1944} should have given up that much of her own writing life in homage to th 17th-century French fabulist is a question critics may well ask. Translator Moore's answer is ready and certain: "Compared with the fables, my own work is insignificant. No poet now living could have written them." By now, Poetess Moore is so soaked in the lessons learned the hard way by La Fontaine's zoo and barnyard folk that "subconsciously I live by his precepts...
...legend of the four huge, tear-shaped pearls that hang from the cross pieces of the British imperial State crown is that they were once Queen Elizabeth's earrings. Taking off from that point, Fabulist Guitry weaves "a veritable fairy tale, the most imaginative passages of which will seem real-perhaps." In the ensuing series of pseudohistorical blackouts, some are naively satirical, others playfully sexy, others plain stodgy. But each is braced up with a neat jigger of the Guitry imp, combines to form a razzle-dazzle of fact & fancy that any cinemagoer should enjoy if he can curb...
...years earlier the present ruling house of Schleswig-Holstein- Sonderburg-Gliicksburg had displaced the Oldenburgs upon the Danish throne. The Oldenburgs, notably Frederik VI, had been patrons of Hans Andersen. Hence Fabulist Andersen's friends warned him that the publication of the story might brand him as disloyal to the new reigning house. Ever easily frightened, he cautiously suppressed the manuscript, which was only recently unearthed by Herr Julius Clausen of the Royal Library at Copenhagen...
Friends of Andersen have alleged that on at least one occasion his wit came to the rescue of his timidity where royalty was concerned. Frederik VII, grandson of Andersen's original benefactor, Frederik VI, challenged the aged fabulist to a drinking bout. He accepted, but bribed a royal servitor to fill the silver cup passed to him with water. Some hours later, Frederik, by then in no mood to be trifled with, detected the fraud. '"Cheat! Will you pledge your King in water...