Word: swans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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WRITTEN in the leisurely tempo of the epoch which is its setting, "The Singing Swan" brings another character of Doctor Johnson's time to modern literature. Anna Seward, poetess, romanticist, and the woman who dared to beard the dean of English lexicographers to his face, finds kind if at times somewhat detailed treatment at the hands of her biographer, Margaret Ashmun...
...first extended study of the "Swan of Lichfield" sets forth a remarkably interesting and accurate account of the literary life in England under George III. The book contains delightful glimpses of the customs, conventions, and people of that day. We see young John Andre, bashful but enterprising, set off to America where he is later executed as a spy. When the "Swan" writes denunciatory poems to General Washington, the American president sends a special officer in reply to assure her that he had tried to save Andre and had offered him eagerly in exchange for Nathan Hale...
...Captain Cook receive less consideration from Miss Ashmun than her meetings with Walter Scott; Dr. Darwin, the great Darwin's grandfather; Romney, who painted her portrait twice; Carey, the translator of Dante; and the poet Southey. Other men of similar note pass across the background of "The Singing Swan." Boswell, to whom she gave much scandal about the great doctor, Garrick, Reynolds, Coleridge, and Adam Smith...
...Singing Swan", while it suffers from a popular standpoint by its scholastic detail and consequent lengthiness. Is done in the soft, mellow style of "Jane Eyre" and was as the cause with a pleasant image of the "Picturesque Century of brocade and periwig, sedan chair, Chippendale furniture and early Wedgewood...
Sibelius' Swan of Tuonela by Conductor Leopold Stokowski and Philadelphia Orchestra (Victor, $2)?A glowing account of a hero's approach to the Finnish hell...