Word: landor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...graduated; at 30 he had lost his first wife, his faith in his clerical calling, everything but his faith in himself and Nature's Neo-Platonic Over-Soul. To prove himself, to share his thought with others, he went to Europe, saw its civilized sights, met its civilizing men. Landor, Coleridge, Wordsworth and especially Carlyle delighted him. After a year he returned to Concord knowing what...
ROSAMOND LEHMANN'S new novel takes its title from a quotation from W.S. Landor, "But the present, like a note in music, is nothing but as it appertains to what is past and what is to come". The story is closely related to the mood expressed by Landor. It opens with several well chosen scenes that picture the everyday life of two picture the everyday life of two English couples living in a Northern industrial town...