Word: valee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Brien's story of his visit among the child-like cannibals in the vale of Atuona, under the peak of Temotiu, has already won rank as a classic among books of travel. Although its author will never be held a great stylist, he is supremely readable. What is more important, he has the power to make his reader see the scenes which he describes so colorfully and know the quaint characters that live between his pages...
...into song. The snow lies, thick now upon Olympus, and its steeped scarped sides are bleak and barren, but once, we fancy, the white feet of the Muses brushed the dew from the anemones in the morning, and at evening came Apollo to sing to the shepherds in the vale. But in this we are merely lending to other ages what we desire, or think we desire, for our own. Our historical sense is at fault. Every century that produces poetry is, so far, an artificial century, and the work that seems to us to be the most natural...