Word: swinburnian
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...Every plummy-voiced English rose of an imitation actress should be dragged by the hair to see Miss Dailey," wrote Critic Bernard Levin in the Daily Express. "She sweats love, breathes hate, weeps desire." The Times catalogued her as "a fully-fledged, Swinburnian femme fatale." Wrote the Daily Mail's Robert Muller: "The performance will wipe the smirk off the faces of those who scoff at the school of psychological interpretation known as the Method. It is theatrical magic...
...took over as Regius Professor at Oxford, became one of Britain's reigning Hellenists. He translated 18 tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides into flowing Swinburnian verse, saw successful stage productions of many of them. When enthusiastic playgoers shouted "Murray" and "Author" after one production of a Euripides tragedy translated by Murray, the scholar rose from his seat and said simply that the author had been dead for many years. Nonetheless, Murray's translations of Electro, and Hippolytus made Euripides (484?-4O7 B.C.) an international bestseller in English...
...Toynbee allied himself with another British scholarly dynasty by marrying the daughter of Professor Gilbert Murray, famous classical scholar and the Swinburnian translator of Euripides and other Greek dramatists. They had three sons, of whom the best known is Philip Toynbee, novelist (School in Private, The Barricades) and reviewer for British magazines like Horizon, Contact and others. Shortly after World War II, Toynbee and Rosalind Murray were divorced. Toynbee then married Veronica Boulter, for many years his secretary and researcher...
...dwindles away at the end; the three quatrains are memorable; the couplet is, in my opinion, artificial and irrelevant. Neither of these poems represents Mr. Abbott at his best. Another sonnet, contributed by Mr. Herbert Jones, begins well and then surrenders to the difficulties of form, tangling the Swinburnian idea in a mass of involved constructions. Mr. Cozzens's "Two Arts" is a tar more competent piece of work, exhibiting the lyric smoothness we demand of modern sonneteers: it is unfortunate, however, that he had to employ a combination of two weak rhymes in his sextet. In his limpid classic...
...Threnody," a fresh impression of love in Aegean landscapes; and Mr. E. Whittlesey's "Along the Wall," vague but rather pretty. Mr. R. G. Hillyer's "The Voice to Respond" begins with a large idea, which becomes smaller as it becomes too subjective. His lines have a strikingly Swinburnian swing. Mr. R. Littell's "Poet Telegraphs" is so vague as to be positively obscure...