Word: shelleys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...studied. Although Peter Quennell's 320-page biography is limited to the years between 1811-1816, the climax of Frances Winwar's longer and more inclusive The Romantic Rebels comes with her record of the same period. The Romantic Rebels explores the interwoven lives of Byron, Keats, Shelley, gives an impression of diffuseness in comparison with Peter Quennell's vivid portrait. Even readers thoroughly familiar with the Byron legend are likely to find Byron: The Years of Fame absorbing reading, both for the sprightliness of Peter Quennell's prose and for his occasional daring insights...
Byron: The Years of Fame ends with Byron's disgrace and exile, makes the poet seem almost a weary old man by that time. The Romantic Rebels, on the other hand, makes it clear that the experiences of Keats and Shelley were only a little less sensational, that most of the figures in the smoky dramas of genius were scarcely mature. Byron was 26 at the time of his disgrace. His sister was 33, Lady Caroline 31, his wife only 24. Shelley was 22 when he abandoned his 19-year-old bride, fled to France with two girls, aged...
...there is the other side, the side with which the Elizabethans dealt, the spirit exemplified in him who would "take all nature to be his province." We must certainly know the Morphology of Shoe-laces between 1421 and 1423; scholars are perfectly correct in spending years of research on Shelley's use of the word "tig"; the world must have extrapulation, interpolation, annotation, paraphrasion, and prolocution. But also let's have big ideas; great generalities; tentative conclusions for next generations to worry about...
...Bride of Frankenstein (Universal). When Carl Laemmle Jr. resurrected the cadaver of an old story by Mary Shelley and sent it shuffling out with necrotic vivacity to become the box-office smash of 1932, he cannily left the door open for a sequel. Audiences went away from Frankenstein wondering whether the monster really died in the blazing mill that seemed to be his catafalque. Now, it appears...
...story, told as a cutback from the recital of Mary Shelley herself, who tells it to her husband (Douglas Walton) and Lord Byron (Gavin Gordon), has none of the hangdog air that one expects in sequels. Screenwriters Hurlbut & Balderston and Director James Whale have given it the macabre intensity proper to all good horror pieces, but have substituted a queer kind of mechanistic pathos for the sheer evil that was Frankenstein. Henry VIII had enough wives to make four screen stars. Elsa Lanchester is the latest to gain stellar fame in Hollywood, having had the way paved...