Word: overworks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When husband Carlyle demanded a soundproof room in which to do his writing, it was Jane who directed its construction. When he was exhausted with overwork, it was Jane who laid him tenderly on the sofa and hushed his sonorous Scots groans by sitting down to the piano and playing "Ye banks and braes o' bonnie Doon." When he spent one vacation savoring the simple pleasures of lying under a tree, Jane could not help reminding a friend that there was a very large tree in their own backyard-"but it were too easy to repose under that...
...writing is simple and incisive, he has carefully drawn the rusting weapons carriers and fading fatigue uniforms of the demoralized armies. Yet the realism of this story is underlaid with symbolism; the symbolism of the sergeant's night journey to his childhood and attempted rebirth. Guerard tends to overwork a few images: the honey knob of a girl's shoulder and the hovering of aircraft above the battlefield, for instance. He relies upon the disturbing device of a narrator who narrates only at intervals, sees things far differently from the sergeant, and points up the ambiguity of the book...
...people were listening to nightingales, in the dawn after World War I, when Eliot began to work on The Waste Land. Their song came only faintly to Eliot himself, whose sense of general calamity was intensified by private troubles. By 1920, partly because of overwork in his dual career as banker and poet, Eliot was on the verge of a breakdown. While resting under the care of a specialist at Lausanne, he finished The Waste Land. He sent it for criticism to his friend, brilliant, erratic Poet Ezra Pound,* who blue-penciled it down to half its size. The poem...