Word: wessex
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thomas Hardy, the last of the great Victorians, is now writing only for private reading. His latest efforts, written in the seclusion of his home in Wessex, are mostly short poems, written for his friends. He has no desire, he states, that these should ever see print, or that they should ever be placed on sale. He is writing because he loves...
...desperate combat for the city of London the army of Wessex last week locked in a death grapple with the army of Mercia. Rain fell and fell until even Noah's contemporaries would have been convinced that there was going to be a flood. And finally after everyone had been soaked to the bone, the umpires decided that the sham battle had saved London for Mercia...
...there was a casualty. Prince Henry, third son of the royal house, galloping at the head of his company of Mercian Hussars fetlock deep in mud, dawn a country road, was caught in the open by advancing Wessex tanks, spitting death from their three-pound guns. He dismounted and stood grinning by the roadside in his steel helmet, crying: "I guess we're out of action!" even before the umpires wrote him down as "killed in the field of battle...
...expected to publish at least one book a year. He tried in The Gang to present a faithful picture of the folkways of New York City?extraordinary, colorful folkways, as native as the customs of gypsies, or of South African tribes, or of the dwellers in Thomas Hardy's Wessex...
...most of it is so very good indeed! "The Deacon Speaks" is so much the real Kipling that Kipling need not be ashamed to own it. The Dunsany piece, "Apotheosis and the Peer", strikes this particular admirer of Dunsany as one of the high points in the collection. "A Wessex Tale" is quite Handyesque in tone and manner, though a keener study of Hardy might reveal to the writer the secret of that sureness of touch that makes the consumate artist. Joseph Conrad in the bathtub is almost Conrad's self, and Edgar Masters' cutting edge is in at least...