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Of all the Victorians, William Morris perhaps came closest to filling the outline of that egregious myth, the Renaissance Man. Only his socialist convictions made him turn down the post of Poet Laureate after Tennyson died. He translated the Icelandic sagas into English, wrote News from Nowhere, one of the...
There are as many reasons to love Trollope as there are people who read him. High on the list is his magical ability to soothe: by rough and arbitrary calculation, 25 pages of Barchester Towers are equal to a 5-mg. Valium, while 15 pages of Can You Forgive Her...
Both Fitzgerald and Faulkner, along with their less disillusioned colleague, Aldous Huxley, would have been surprised to learn that a few years after Faulkner made these remarks, two writers again turned toward Hollywood in search of the American ideal. Nathaniel West, slaving in a B-grade studio to reduce the...
The hundred or so pages that take Wilson through his Coast Guard years would make a fine short sea novel. The writing, in general, is dogged, honest and unbrilliant, and to chronicle the Greenland patrol, those qualities are sufficient. The sea supplies the power and depth missing in his dry...
Attempts to use real contemporary music in musicals-like Richard Lester's two Beatles movies or Ken Russell's Tommy-have been random. A Chorus Line, hottest ticket on Broadway and destined to be filmed, is just a slick version of 1930s tears-and-tinsel show biz sagas...