Word: poignant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Humbert Wolfe himself is a poet whose work deserves its place beside that of the men he honors by including in this volume. I particularly liked the second stanza of his introduction to the Countryman's Winter, a slight thing perhaps, but to me a rather poignant expression of the effect of a country winter on the city bred...
...last thunderous rumblings were particularly poignant...
With such characters to work with Miss Lehmann has written a novel of considerable beauty. Bringing together these people in a perfectly normal situation she succeeds in giving her theme a real musical note that develops into a poignant melody when the young couple desert the town and leave the original characters to settle back into their ordinary lives...
...first their optimism was justified, but propinquity without possession grew more and more poignant. When two correct visitors from the outside world arrived, the situation came to a head, there was the devil to pay. Eventually, with the help of two fistfights, an attempted suicide, two engagements and a marriage, the tangle unwound itself...