Word: victorians
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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President Hopkins is concerned over the modern trend of cynicism and realism in life and politics and by the loss of the flowery idealism of the Victorian Age and the more recent idealism of the war. He deplores "the wide prevalence of the professionalized attitude toward life" and utilizes this attitude as the basis of an attack on the "attempt of extremists who style themselves Liberal with a capital L to exploit in their own interest the field of liberal thought." Doubtless this statement will be seized upon eagerly by a large section of the metropolitan press...
...York Evening Post: " Survivors of the Victorian age are not unlikely to echo their queen with a frigid: 'We are not amused...
...Significance. Though a sincere admirer of the classics and the beauty and strength of the past, Mr. Lindsay has endeavored through his career to get away from the conventional pseudo-Victorian style of poetry that devotes itself entirely to imitating Gems of English Literature and to write about American subjects in an American way. He is neither a hyperintellectual nor a blood-and-Kiplingite, nor a mere experimenter with unusual rhythms. He is a poet, and a true poet, and a great deal of his work will probably last much longer than some of our elaborately sophisticated cognoscenti believe...
Once readers were ignorant, and naively vain of their erudition Later readers were honest, and openly proud of their vices. Later still readers were gentle, and sentimentally enamored of their poses. Now readers are literate, and remarkably fond of their opinions. Elizabethan, Restoration, Victorian, Modern literature ? where is it going...
...work may involve the removal of the Shaftesbury Memorial fountain. This fountain was erected in 1893 in memory of the eighth Earl of Shaftesbury, whose philanthropic work among the poor of London was the pride of the mid-Victorian era. The fountain is adorned with eight plaques of scenes from the philanthropist's life, and is surmounted by a figure of Eros, God of Love...