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Nineteenth-century France produced few greater sculptors than Antoine Bourdelle, and fewer still who had greater effect on sculptors of the twentieth century. Rodin, his longtime friend and teacher, called him a "pathfinder of the future." Bourdelle spread his influence by teaching and writing, and both Giacometti and Germaine Richier served apprenticeships in his studio...
Haiti in the mid-Twentieth Century is not much closer to republicanism than it was in its first days of independence, In 1820 Emperor Christophe committed suicide, inaugurating a succession of dictators, cabals, marine interventions, and assassinations. The whitedomed palace is presently occupied by Francois Duvalier, a 56-year old country doctor who boosted himself to power in 1957 following a ten-month, period of turmoil in which six governments ruled...
...most part, Haiti still lies outside of the Twentieth Century. She enjoys sophistication in her Creole language and literature, and her highly developed art form. So much most countries in this hemisphere cannot boast. But she totally lacks a sense of social demand or action. Her people don't have much; they don't ask much; and they don't get much...
Bate'sKeats culminates twenty-five years of loving scholarship, beginning with his undergraduate thesis at Harvard. It represents a classic synthesis of the two major styles of modern biography. With few exceptions, scholarly biography in the twentieth century has been characterized either by massive detail (what Sinclair Lewis, for example, had for breakfast) or by brisk, selective interpretation (Andrew Turnbull's fine F. Scott Fitzgerald). In reconciling the two extremes, Professor Bate has not only produced a great biography, he has also--more importantly--provided a new definition, by example, of the profounder uses of scholarship...
Writers, however, have a larger interest in Keats. "It is a commonplace," Bate writes, that poetry and indeed all the arts have seemed to become increasingly specialized throughout the last two hundred and fifty years, and especially during the twentieth century. We face even more directly the problem that was widely discussed throughout the fifty years before Keats was born and also throughout his lifetime: where are the Homers and Shakespeares, the 'greater genres'--the epic and dramatic tragedy--or at least reasonable equivalents...