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...Mich.; David H. Bodiker, Dayton, Ohio; Robert A. Bowman, New York City; Harold B. Downey, Elmhurst, Ill.; George B. Doyle, Worcester, Mass.; John S. Getch, Ashley, Pa.; Lewis W. Goetz, Watsoka, Ill.; Roger A. Golde, Chicago, Ill.; John W. Hurst, Bremerton, Wash.; Warren Kantrowitz, Natick, Mass.; Arthur G. Siler, Orinda, Calif.; Laurence A. Stein, Jersey City, N. J.; John W. Van Doren, Akron, Ohio...
CHALLISS GORE Orinda, Calif...
...Joel Esquith, New York, N. Y.; Morton K. Fink, Brooklyn, N. Y.; Robert Gueiroard, Paris, France; Ralph F. Lowis, St. Louis, Mo.; William Little, Cambridge; Milton J. Margolis, Dayton, O.; Richard F. Neuschel, Hamburg, N. Y.; Summer A. Pendleton, Somerville; Richard H. Rush, Washington, D. C.; Fred N. Twining, Orinda, Calif.; Morton L. Weiss, West Chester, Pa.; and John W. Welcker, Springfield...
...addition to being England's first poetess Orinda can claim attention as being one of the leaders of a new literary movement growing out of the transitional period during the time of the Commonwealth. Daughter of a Puritan and wife of a Puritan, she was, nevertheless, a Cavalier at heart and remained secretly loyal during the Commonwealth. Thus she carried the tradition of the earlier Cavalier poets over to the Restoration, soon after which she began to reap the praise of her contemporaries, including Dryden. The Matchless Orinda has now settled to her proper classification as one of the better...
...complete, accurate and well written. The volume never becomes boring even for the layman. The true merit of it, however comes in its value as a reference book for the student of that literary period. In addition to an exceedingly copious bibliography, the letters to Poliarchus are invaluable. Although Orinda did not reflect the life of the times in her writings as much as did her contemporary, Pepys, she unconsciously drew a revealing picture of herself and consequently of her times...