Word: latinizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Though he eschews Latin-rooted words, clings to Anglo-Saxonisms almost as tightly as William Morris did, Author Linklater manages to give his bare and lusty chronicle an authentic primitive manner without ever putting the reader to sleep. Though his tale is at times reminiscent of the over-factual Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, it lifts towards the end to a narrative as stripped and swift as a Viking long ship with the oars going all together...
...Schiller's Latin Dramas," Professor Burkhard, Germauic Museum Lecture Room...
...stamped "One Sovereign" and have nothing on them to indicate what they may be worth. On one side St. George, mounted, slays a dragon with his knightly sword. On the other side the head of George V. uncrowned, is surmounted not by an English promise but by a Latin abbreviation: Georgiuns V D. G. Britt: Omn: Rex D. F. Inde...
...Pound does nothing to help his readers. He once told a friend that the key to the Cantos was "the presentness of the past," but if there is any connected idea (there is no story) in the Cantos, it is too elusive for amateur readers, too buried under Greek, Latin, Provencal, Italian, French, German, Spanish, Japanese allusions. Stunned by the almost continuous avalanche of changing subjects, the plain reader may be too dizzied to get far, but if he perseveres and keeps his eyes open he should find some picture-passages to please...
...first-hand knowledge of Greek or Latin literature seems to me of unquestionable value in education, not so much for the discipline needed to obtain it as for the sensitizing and chastening of the imagination that it will in the end produce. But it is obvious that good thinking is more usefully directed on contemporary problems than on those of a civilization that perished centuries ago. Antiquarianism and archaeology are blind alleys, and so is Classical scholarship unless it is ventilated and illumined by a perception of the present...