Word: spiritedly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last scene of all is laid in Dumfries, as the gallant spirit wavers in a body only 37 years old. Holy Willie comes to taunt him, chanting...
...Burns' spirit still has the fire to reply...
Slowly his spirit fades. He turns to Jean...
...Significance. There are few dramas of action in which the climax comes as the hero dies from natural causes; but the drama of Burns is the drama of his spirit. Mr. Drinkwater has "cribbed," freely and wisely, from Burns' poetry,* but so well that the play is not just a setting for its songs. Probably no other poet's life (excepting Villon's) could be dramatized with the use of so much of his poetry without artificiality. Burns' songs were, however, part of him, and they rise naturally from his lips?such songs...
...might prescribe spiritual vitamines. The subtitle of his book is "A Pocket Medicine Chest of Verse." He furnishes 14 packets of medicine for specific mental ailments: "Stimulants for a Faint Heart (Poems of Courage)"; "Mental Cocktails and Spiritual Pick-Me-Ups (Poems of Laughter)"; "Massage for a Muscle-bound Spirit (Poems of Emancipation)"; "Poppy Juice for Insomnia (Soothers and Soporifics)"; "To Deflate the Ego (Ingredients for a Humble Pie)"; etc. Although the editor offers them half with tongue- in-cheek, there is no reason why his prescriptions should not effect cures quite as marvelous and as numerous as those produced...