Word: jurgens
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...slicked Manhattan mob twittered about the famed Anderson Galleries last week and endeavored to understand the mystic symbolism hidden in the 21 large mural paintings and eight pieces of sculpture there on show. Strange forms of a significance remindful of the tortuous ideas in Novelist James Branch Cabell's Jurgen revealed themselves. Famed Etcher Joseph Pennell was loud in his praise of their originality. Much interest centred about a bust of the famed Spanish Singer Raquel Meller...
...have tried to show Jurgen facing the unanswerable riddle of why things are as they are; Jurgen, 'clad in the armor of his hurt,' spinning giddily through life, strutting, posturing, fighting, loving, pretending; Jurgen proclaiming himself count, duke, king, emperor, god; Jurgen, beaten at last by the pathos and mystery of life, bidding farewell to that dream of beauty which he had the vision to see but not the strength to follow...
Thus wrote Deems Taylor, critic-composer, of his symphonic poem, "Jurgen," which was given last week by the New York Symphony Society before an audience composed partly of admirers of Mr. Taylor, of modern music and of the Symphony Society, and partly of leering persons who, well knowing that the novel of James Branch Cabell is crisp with supposed "salaciousness," came in hope that the music would furnish sauce for the same salad. These last were disappointed. He has used the "Jurgen" legend merely as a pretext for the expression of certain emotions which might have been roused...
...Author of Jurgen...
...James Branch Cabell, in Straws and Prayer-books,** permits his admirers to share with him a reticent heartache at the depressing reflection that a few centuries hence his name may be emblazoned in literary memory only as "the author of Jurgen"? his other works known only to the discriminating...