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After an autumn walk along the Arno in Florence he wrote his Ode to the West Wind; in Pisa The Cloud and To a Skylark...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Supreme Capacity | 1/13/1947 | See Source »

...spent most of his life in the country, kept his eyes fixed on the beautiful. Wrote Critic Ruskin scornfully: "Constable perceives . . . that grass is wet, the meadows flat, and the boughs shady; about as much as . . . might in general be apprehended, between them, by an intelligent faun and a skylark." But Constable had enough faunlike intelligence and skylark blitheness to make him Britain's classic landscape painter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Britain's Best | 10/28/1946 | See Source »

...style of the late Aimee Semple McPherson. In the other, the book's title piece, Shelley proclaims the news that "GOD IS." There is also a sort of undertaker's garland of poems written since Shelley "passed over." Many of them, like From the Death of the Skylark, are unfortunately fragments. Sample...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Seeing Shelley Plainer | 11/19/1945 | See Source »

Later Johnny wrote I'm an Old Cowhand, On Behalf of the Visiting Firemen, Jeepers Creepers, Lazy Bones and Skylark. With half the U.S. mumbling his 42nd-Street plain chant in its sleep, Mercer moved on to Hollywood. Blues in the Night, written for a Warner Brothers musical, sold over a million copies. By last week another Mercer opus. Strip Polka (for which the versatile Johnny had written the tune as well as the words), was No. 2 on Variety's list of bestsellers. Its homely refrain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Mercerized Music | 10/12/1942 | See Source »

...Skylark," this week's presentation at the Brattle Hall Theatre, is like a lot of other comedies. It starts off rather slowly and aimlessly, manages to become semi-amusing at the end of the first act, and from there on turns into a really funny show, as the actors and the script lose their awkwardness. It never becomes first-rate comedy, however, because it is never really convincing. The plot and the characters are too trite to make it anything more than a clever drawing-room farce in which the characters speak and act as they are expected...

Author: By J. M., | Title: PLAYGOER | 7/1/1942 | See Source »

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