Word: lytton
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Author Wiegler, German biographer of the fashionable(Lytton Strachey-Andre Maurois) school, gives, not annotated footnotes to historical figures, but dramatic glimpses of human beings...
...Significance. Ten months ago saw the publication of Elizabeth and Essex by Lytton Strachey (TIME, Dec. 31). Katherine Anthony's picture of Elizabeth is more complete, and she is naturally able to write as one woman of another. Perhaps it is this sex sympathy which has enabled her to untie many heretofore tightly tangled Elizabethan knots. Embracing the political implications of the virgin's reign - the development of England's insularity, the alienation of the continent-she fails however to suggest as strongly as did Strachey the lusty temper of the times, the era gorgeous with talent...
Engaged. John St. Loe Strachey, of London, Laborite candidate for Parliament, son of the late Editor John St. Loe Strachey of The Spectator, cousin of Biographer Lytton Strachey (Eminent Victorians, Queen Victoria, Elizabeth and Essex); to Miss Esther Murphy, of Manhattan, daughter of President Patrick Francis Murphy of Mark Cross Co. (leather goods...
...place of Charles Lamb there is Max Beerbohm and a worthy modern equivalent he is. Follow him with James Stephens, possibly Machen, and Aldous Huxley. Hudson leads us to Cunninghame, Graham, and Shaw. For Jane Austen we shall have (let us hope) David Garnett and for Leslie Stephen, Lytton Strachey! It will not be as easy to follow the literary scientists and philosophers; somehow William James and Santayana and Bertrand Russell do not suggest the heights of the ancient Olympus. But they, along with Neitzsche, make better reading. Possibly one thinks too much of those beautiful Victorian beards...
Virgin Queen-delicately he even grants her her virginity. But to Lytton Strachey no meretricious novelty is necessary, such is the compelling freshness of his interpretation, and such the uncanny vitality of his art. Elizabeth has always made engaging reading, but from Strachey's pages she emerges in all her living bizarre glamor to fascinate a jaded 20th century as surely as she fascinated the sensitive enthusiasts of her day. And it is not the youthful Elizabeth, but Elizabeth in her triumphant old age-her enemies outplayed and outlived; her darlings still vying for her favors. In vivid galaxy...