Word: musee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Robert Graves is one literary campaigner against God who refuses to find his compensation in Communism, Existentialism, or any other materialistic system. In eccentric loneliness, Graves worships his own spectacular deity-a lady known as the White Goddess, whom he declares to be the true Godhead and only true muse of poets, and to whose abandonment by erring man he attributes most of the mess in the world today...
...Innocence. In 1928, Evelyn (pronounced Evil in) Arthur St. John Waugh (rhymes with raw) leaped, like a literary commando, out of nowhere and, establishing a beachhead in that dismal waste land which Poet T. S. Eliot had charted six years before, began to commit merry mayhem on the comic muse...
...Connecticut. It's a quiet life, very few people." But he seemed to yearn for the tragic actors and the monumental stage sets of Renaissance Europe. He began to produce ever larger, ever emptier pictures of a girl with her back turned (she might have been his own Muse). At last, as if his pictures were decaying with his talent, he gave his canvases a moldy, gnawed-on look by painting cracks and holes in them...
...cranked out his sweet-&-sour rhymes for 25 years, not even pausing at the death of his son (1942) and his first wife (in childbirth, two years later). Lately he seemed to tire of his monotonous Muse; in January Donna Wahnna wrote...
When Clio, the Muse of History, gets her diary up to date, whom will she write down as the Man of the 20th Century? Barring the unlikely appearance, before 2000, of an extraordinarily effective saint or major prophet, the Man of the Century will be a German intellectual, devoted to children, caviar and Aeschylus...