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...poets who helped form the idiom spoke with classical tongues. He read Theocritus and Vergil, Horace and Catullus. (In any possible hereafter, says Frost, he would like most to dine with Theocritus). Keats and Shelley were uncongenially flowery. He learned the dramatic lyric from Browning, decided that what he wanted was "the speaking tone of voice somehow entangled in the words." He set himself such exercises...
...sculptors already represented in the museum collection. Constantin Brancusi's Bird in Space had long been a polished bronze bone of contention for museumgoers. To some it looked like a crackpot design for a propeller blade; others swore they got the same upward lift from it as from Shelley's To a Skylark. The museum's new Brancusi was a six-foot slab of blue-grey marble, precariously balanced on its side and entitled Fish. It had neither head nor tail, and no one could be sure in which direction the fish was meant to be swimming...
...DAVID SHELLEY NICHOLL...
...white, the film is directed with an eye to realistic detail, an ear for the script's frequently natural dialogue and a knack for building suspense. It also has some good performances by Dan Duryea, John McIntire and Millard Mitchell, as well as Actors Stewart and McNally. Heroine Shelley Winters, who seems lost in all the uproar, might as well have been lost in the script...
...Immortal Lovers wipes the paraffin smirk off their faces. As in her past performances (lives of Byron, Shelley, Keats, Oscar Wilde, George Sand, et al.), Biographer Winwar makes the facts highly readable. The true love story of the Brownings is just as exciting as the semi-fictional versions of it, and far more warmly human...