Word: musee
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Blunden is often classed as of the genus pastoral: his descriptions of English countryside have been likened to Wordsworth. He is a meticulous observer of the outdoors, and couches his observations in many a good old country term. In Near and Far his Muse wanders to Japan and through the War, but she remains, in spite of all temptations, always an English Muse...
Once again a slightly ever-enthusiastic pursuit of the Muse seems to have brought down Jovian thunder upon the unprotected head of Lampy...
Reynard the Fox has been given the Laureate's Chair by the King; Dauber has left the salt sea for the National Muse; King Cole has been given a throne...
...learned heads respect, and student heads headache at the mention of his name, but he must also put into practise, a step anomalous for a professor, the facts that he has garnered. While in his all-too-short sojourn at Harvard history in the making lives as a naked muse before his classes. And so the Vagabond doffs an imaginary hat to Professor Webster and wishes him all social and diplomatic success at emperors garden parties...
...these discomforts over, the remainder of Mr. de la Mare's essay expresses a sensitive poet's delicate admiration of these notes flung from the throat of the greatest songster of them all-the Muse's charm flowering in the lonely word, and the essential 'rightness' of this word that is Shakespere's and no other's. Screened through the younger poet's interpretation, we reread the songs with new delight...