Word: victorians
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...merit, may be observed in six rooms, one of 1750 with Reynolds and Gainsborough portraits, a Handel duet on the table; one of 1815 designed to reproduce the character of a sitting- room of the Becky Sharp-Waterloo period; the 1852 room of the now so fashionable mid-Victorian era is the most amusing, every available inch strenuously decorated-that great age when even ladies were upholstered; the 1888 room is all preRaphaelite, with the arts, crafts and esthetics of William Morris, Holman Hunt and deMorgan pottery; ending up with two modern rooms, not too successful, particularly in the dining...
...Gilbert's Pirate King denounces the month of February with verses which approximate in length the final verse. Few survivors of the Victorian age will take kindly to this verse and to the couplet of which it is a part, or will regard a line of twenty-one words and thirty syllables (yoked by rhyme to a line of three words and six syllables) as a satisfactory successor of the traditional Alexandrine or septenary. Yet modern poets must make their own experiments, however daring; and Mr. Auslander's experiments in metre are relatively temperate. In days in which whole paragraphs...
...addition to the Garrick exhibition, a collection of autographed letters from Victorian authors and artists has been given to the Library by A. H. Parker '97, of Boston. The greater part of these letters were written to Frederic Locker Lampson, the poet and book collecter. The writers include Matthew Arnold, Eliot, Froude, Holmes, Lowell, Swinburne, Trollope, and about 35 others...
...Victorian prejudice, against novels which mildly inclined toward Jefferson's view that the result of reading them is "a bloated imagination, sickly judgment and disgust toward all the real business of life" has largely passed away; and the point has been reached where this type of literature forms a convenient and popular vehicle for the conveying of science, history, and religion to the masses. The habit of disapproval is too deeply ingrained, however, to allow the novel to escape scot-free; and it is this very subservience to science that arouses modern criticism. Speaking at St. Mark...
...visitors to the U. S. The Poet Laureate of England recently arrived in Manhattan, refused to be interviewed, refused to express any opinion at all of America, refused to give his address in Manhattan. This, of course, was not playing the game which so many Britishers have overplayed. The Victorian poet, beloved of Masefield, master technician, comes to grace the campus of Ann Arbor as visiting lecturer, patron saint, what you will; a post which was previously occupied by our own poet, Robert Frost. It has 'been rumored that at Oxford, near which he lives, the elderly poet finds...