Word: somerset
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...readers lack; patience not merely in one reading but in many. For a long time, too, it was easy to misjudge Eliot, thanks to certain of his admirers, as the mere precious laureate of a Harvardian coterie. But that time, fortunately, is well past. So levelheaded a man as Somerset Maugham has recently (in his Introduction to Modern English & American Literature-anthology; TIME, May 24) done both poetry and plain readers a notable service by introducing Eliot to a large audience, without talking down and without so much as mentioning his "obscurity," as "the greatest poet of our time...
INTRODUCTION To MODERN ENGLISH AND AMERICAN LITERATURE-W. Somerset Maugham-The New Home Library (69c). "A selection of the most readable writing of the last 50 years," Introduction covers a wide range, gives high value at an unusually low price. Along with noted poets (Eliot, Auden, Hardy, Yeats, etc.) are examples from the lesser known (Roy Campbell, James Agee, etc.). The prose writings are also various: Churchill on Dunkirk, stories by Henry James, Eudora Welty, James Thurber, sayings by Logan Pearsall Smith, essays by Aldous Huxley and E. M. Forster, letters by John Jay Chapman, etc. Author Maugham steps...
...Somerset Maugham can spin a colorful yarn out of those aspects of human relations that usually lurk in literary backgrounds but rarely appear boldly as the central theme of a story. At times a bit maudlin, the English novelist has avoided stereotyped sentimentalities in "The Moon and Sixpence," and Warner's has followed faithfully with a moving cinema rendition of the tale of simmering desires and explosive emotional escapes...
...punch was there. The guests, the most literary minded in Cambridge, were there. But the Advocate has yet to explain what happened to their guest of honor, Somerset Maugham. As usual on such occasions, rumors were plentiful. The one picked up by those "who are in a position to know," was that he had to catch a plane "somewhere." They say that the animal who has given rides to so many celebrities in the famous Advocate barouche wept bitter tears, took a slug of the punch, and promptly died...
From the same punchbowl that has refreshed visiting Cambridge celebrities from Anna Held to Tallulah Bankhead, the editors of Mother Advocate will serve ale to Somerset Maugham, famous English novelist, whose latest contribution to the movies. "The Moon and Sixpence," had its Boston premier last evening...