Word: shelleys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pantomime of bare-fanged marriage-they are splendid. Lahr in a plane or at a stage door, Walker in a hash house or the Garden of Eden, also have their moments. But too often, though they make their lines brighter, they cannot make them bright. TV's Shelley Berman does nicely in a character-part telephone monologue, but falls flat as a straight man, and the rest of the show alternates dullness and noise when it does not combine them...
...esthetic movement in Russian poetry that rebelled against the didactic, social-protest verse of the late 19th century. He was briefly drawn to the "Futurists." with their sprung rhythms and staccato, telegraphic style. But in many ways he also harks back to the English romantics. With them-Blake, Shelley, Keats-Pasternak sees nature as the handwriting on God's wall, or at least as the outward sign of an unseen and perhaps mystical order of things. And with the romantics, Boris Pasternak shares the belief that the creative imagination is itself divine, sharing in God's own creativity...
...these were brilliant people, and occasionally they flash free of the author's clutch, as when "Monk" Lewis, master of the supernatural, jolts Shelley by ruling him out of a ghost-story session because Shelley is an atheist; or when Shelley's friend, Thomas Jefferson Hogg, hopes to seduce Mary while Shelley is away from home; or when Shelley gets a swimming lesson and plunges straight to the bottom, tempted by death and an answer to the Great Mystery. Despite such antics, Mary's father, husband and friends were schooled-and schooled her-to put intellect above...
...Leeches. The story above all others that makes the book worthwhile is the money story. Before the big foundations were founded and before universities handed out lectureships to writers, most poetic achievement involved two persons, the poet and the patron. But Shelley and Byron both pulled a switch on the historic arrangement. In their circle of literary liberals, they had all the talent and they had all the cash. Percy Bysshe Shelley was heir to ?6,000 a year and thus a natural target for any advanced thinker down on his luck-including Editor-Author Leigh Hunt and Mary...
Intentionally or not, Biographer Big-land has written an expose of advanced thought in Shelley's England. In the Movement, her record shows more finance than romance and proves again that those who set out to rid society of hypocrisy usually have plenty of their own in case they succeed...