Word: twilighter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mayday twilight O'er the bright skies pearl-coloured clouds float through the emerald space, While on the shore the wavelets Lightly take hands, rise and subside, dance like enamoured naiads. Into such a scene on the last day of May roared the poet in his speed boat. Like a mad modernist, scoffing at his own lyrics, Gabriele d'Annunzio disturbed the waters of Lake Garda (in the Italian lake district), annoyed ladies and gentlemen lolling in boats covered with bright awnings. He detests fat people and, what is more, he was out to add another title-speed...
...TWILIGHT SLEEP-Edith Wharton-Appleton...
...Lawrence: "The White Peacock," London (1911), William Heineman; "The White Peacock," New York (1911) Duffield & Company; "The Trespasser," London (1912), Duckworth and Co.; "Sons and Lovers," London (1913), Duckworth and Co.; "The Rainbow," Methuen and Co. (1915); "Twilight in Italy," London (1916), Duckworth and Co.; "Amores" London (1916), Duckworth and Co.; "Women in Love," London (1921), Martin Secker; "The Lost Girl," London (1920), Martin Secker; "Psychoanalysis and the Unconscious," New York (1921), Thomas Seltzer; "Sea and Sardinia," New York (1921), Thomas Seltzer; "Aaron's Rod," New York (1922), Thomas Seltzer; "Fantasia and the Unconscious," New York (1922) Thomas Seltzer; "Glad...
Tall, slow windmills and drowsy woodlands set the tempo of Doom, where Wilhelm II ages and declines in ease; but, recently, came a letter to strike sparks in the imperial twilight, a letter from Boston to "William the Third...
...Ubiquitous Critic Mencken: "Very few of the immortal creators have escaped periods of neglect and contumely. Shakespeare, as everyone knows, was regarded as a second-rater during part of the 18th Century, and various imbeciles set themselves to the job of editing and improving him. Even Bach had his twilight, and it took a Mendelssohn to rescue him. But only fools have ever questioned the mightiness of Beethoven-and not many fools...