Word: romanticize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next day Stephens' startled Daddy and girls heard still more shocking talk. Exclaimed Dr. Leslie Benjamin Hohman, famed Johns Hopkins psychiatrist (author of As The Twig Is Bent): "Don't marry a soldier just because he wears a uniform. . . . Marriage in this country is based too much on...
Schumann: Symphony No. 4 in D Minor (Chicago Symphony, conducted by Frederick Stock; Columbia; 6 sides; $3.50). Dr. Stock and his men, specialists in warm, romantic works, give this one a much-needed new recording.
Thus Biographer Peter Quennell (Byron: the Years of Fame} starts Byron and his retinue, like latter-day Canterbury pilgrims, on a sentimental journey that was to take the Poet away from England for ever, lead him at last to Greece and death at the age of 36. Byron in...
One of the world's great legends, the Byron story will stand almost any amount of retelling. Retold by Peter Quennell, the result is a minor literary event. Reason: Peter Quennell probably knows more about Byron and the romantic movement than any man alive, tells what he knows in...
He was not the only Englishman at the hotel. Already installed was the son of the "exceedingly respectable Member for New Shoreham," Percy Bysshe Shelley, together with his mistress, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, and her stepsister, Byron's ex-mistress, Claire Clairmont. "Like many professional libertines," says Author Quennell, "Byron...