Word: victorian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...victim's mind, and compels him, not only in his own phrase and vocabulary but in his own kind of mental operation, to make fun of himself. Perhaps the beet example of this deadly skill in modern literature is that of Charles Stuart Calverly, that most brilliant of Victorian pranksters, who fairly reincarnated the very personality of his victims, An able citizen he, by the way, and of university fame; he still stands as the only undergraduate who ever won the Chancelors' prizes at both Oxford and Cambridge - for Latin verse...
...obligation of reading authors who have reached a perilous stage in this habit, may be allowed to register here his mild protest, and to express the hope that writers at Harvard, if only for the sake of a change, may turn their attention to imitating the clarity of the Victorian age or even of the eighteenth century...
...later years his methods sobered somewhat, his interests widened and his sympathies broadened. As to the permanent value of his output it is too early to heard a guess. But of his value as a teacher there can be no question. In a group of men suavely Victorian, he stood for the unconventionality, the daring and the happy irresponsibility of the twentieth century. New York Times...