Word: sky
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...excellent; the former is not so good; Mr. Norris lets his penchant for the pictorial run away with him. It is true he speaks no more of the sea as "an enchanted moan," but allows the moon to shine brightly on a snowy hill above which is a black sky. Nevertheless, a pretty movement runs throughout, the idea is splendid, and the verses are well finished...
...found the soul of Bordeaux, that something which exists in every old city and distinguishes it from all other cities. He has the external features, the names of streets and parks, the jangling of old bells, the seasoned stone of the buildings, bridges and docks, and the "spire-shattered" sky. But frequently he seems to have been too busy being an imagist to be a poet as well. I do not mean to disparage imagism save when it becomes a conscious pose. Then it goes in search of the strange angle of vision, the unheard-of adjective, the interpretation...
...flung sky...
...Gardner's residence, as is well known, is built in the style of the Venetian Renaissance palace, and incorporates many original structural details which have been brought over from Italy. The central court, protected by a sky-light, is a marvellous complex of floral color and fragrance...
...color, tumultuous music. But in fact its hills are desolate, its color gray, the dress of its people largely black. That austerity that is only hinted at in the saddest parts of Brittany, is in Spain magnified to the dignity of a persistent vision, brooding in the colorless sky, dispelled, or rather, transformed, only for a moment in the heat of noon, intense, akin to the early Gothic. It is strain to the verge of insanity. In England, Blake's engravings have something of its spirit. It is fundamental in Spain and it is what Goya and el Greco...