Word: gentian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...like the blue gentian gleaming On the hillside by the shalin Purple blue in the sunlight Are the eyes of my Mary...
...passionate questions become more & more trivial ("Is barley syrup made from barley?"), the obsessive topics more & more Promethean and miserable ("The cowards, to keep an unarmed man imprisoned upon a rock!"). The books and encyclopedias on his tables are replaced by syringes and bowls, bottles of orange-flower water, gentian, licorice, quinine and calomel. The doctors hover around the bed, urging this & that on the dying dictator, until he shouts: "Shut up, you bore me!'' The conversation is of little else but the sickroom, the Emperor turning and twisting in pain on his iron bed. or hobbling feebly...
...GENTIAN HILL (402 pp.) - Elizabeth Goudge-Coward-McCann...
...19th should still be hugely popular. And it is plainly uncanny that such a writer as Novelist Goudge, with almost nothing to say, and small style to say it with, should be the one to write them. What is the secret of Author Goudge's success? Gentian Hill, her latest novel and the Literary Guild's first offer of the new year, can be studied as a casebook of her method...
...woof thread of joy"-which is a fair example of how the sonorous Victorian style sounds in Miss Goudge's version. However it sounds, Miss Goudge's simple optimism, her invariable happy endings and her soufflé of fairies and folklore always pull her through. Gentian Hill should do it again...