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Blunden defends Shelley's first efforts at "Gothic" romances (he wrote several at Eton and Oxford) as honest, would-be commercial work; Horrid Novels were popular. Shelley enjoyed Oxford, holding his own there with what Blunden calls his "wickedly perfect politeness." He was really surprised and hurt when his love of epistolary arguments and pamphleteering got him expelled for printing a reasonable discussion on The Necessity of Atheism...
...horrid imperfection...
...indispensable." The Boston press ruckus came when he answered a matronly sob-sister with conjectures that, yes, a man ought to be able to find a wife by 25, and should have several children--in line with the idea of becoming a good citizen. The result was most horrid--banner headlines and a front-page picture...
...came to buy a brand of expressionism which seemed far to the right of Evergood's politics. His strict sense of how to draw usually made a solid scaffold for his rags and flags of dramatic, loosely brushed color to fly from. When he was bad, Evergood was horrid. Some of his most obviously propagandistic work (American Tragedy, Jobs Not Dimes') looked careless-on-purpose-like that of a politician who mispronounces words for effect. But thought-out paintings such as Juju as a Wave (a portrait of his wife-see cut) had a warmth of feeling which...
Edmund Wilson, whether he liked it or not, was safe from the horrid publicity of a Boston book-banning. His Memoirs of Hecate County with its bedroom blueprints would not outrage Boston, because Doubleday publishers decided not to bother sending it there...