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...earliest artist shown is William Rush, who was born in 1756 and became the nation's first professional sculptor. His Music is a graceful wooden girl who is as pleasing in her mute way as the muse she represents. When it came to women, Rush's 19th century successors were even more gallant than he. John Rogers' Lost Pleiad shows American sculpture at its most blatantly sentimental. Daniel French's Memory is a matronly nude shown brooding about some lost and precious moment, and Augustus Saint-Gaudens' golden Diana is as winsome as the larger...
...Marlowe was stabbed to death in a tavern" brawl. The Elizabethans lived dangerously, and while they lived, they were asmile with daring. Shakespeare held a magnifying glass to the spirit of his age, and set the unroofed circle of the Globe's "wood en O" blazing with his Muse of Fire...
...night before the Ides of March. As in Warner's earlier volume, The Young Caesar, a restlessly wakeful Julius is musing -in flashbacks-over his career. Since the book covers the last 15 years of Caesar's life, he has a lot to muse over. First, Caesar remembers marching into Gaul, and Author Warner does ample justice to the tactics of the Gallic wars (as Caesar did in his own Commentaries), but considering that a million tribesmen were killed and another million taken prisoner, Warner's account of the campaigns is curiously bloodless. All the other facts...
...homage to Clio, muse of history and time, takes forms and settled attitudes that only mellowness can explain. No great-man theories of history will satisfy him, no view of the past that dwells on great events and revolves around the doers and shakers of the moment. Clio, he is convinced, cares for the little man, the steady chap who tends the store and provides the hardly discernible backbone that supports the homely burdens. And Auden can make his peace with an entire universe seem like wry resignation...
...once, his histrionics met their match; when she found another woman's hairpins in his guest room, she threatened to burn down his villa "because the temple has been profaned. Flame alone can purify it." But there was nothing preposterous about the poet when he left his muse and Duse to go to the wars. In 1915 D 'Annunzio was living on his fame in Paris, a revered symbol of Italy's risorgimento. but also a plumping man of 52. and no one would have blamed...