Word: woolf
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mailer has the intensely realistic style of a James T. Farrell; he has perfected this technique and keeps perfect control over his subject matter. Least, successful of the stories, perhaps, is "The Bridge," by Robert Lowry, a conscious attempt at oversimplification that strives too much for this effect. Douglas Woolf handles his more familiar theme of tough children shop-lifting with ease and restraint. A too apparent theme spoils "The Best Policy" by Harold Smith...
...course of the telling, Miss Godden gets in some beautiful local color and some sharp child psychologizing. She shows a sensitivity to moods that is almost reminiscent of Virginia Woolf. But there is so much mystification, soft-focus symbolism and feminine theatricality that an almost fine novel becomes too dreamlike and sinister for words. Extreme sensitiveness breeds a type of melodrama, even...
...year of great literary deaths - James Joyce, Sherwood Anderson, Virginia Woolf, Elizabeth Madox Roberts. It was also a year of valedictions: Virginia Woolf, Thomas Wolfe, Scott Fitzgerald and Elizabeth Madox Roberts spoke their last words as artists...
...which Laughlin considers of lasting value. Rimbaud, William Carlos Williams, Gertrude Stein, and Andre Gide are among the names included or planned for inclusion. A third series, The Makers of Modern Literature, is composed of what Laughlin terms "critical guidebooks" to the great modern authors--Joyce, Henry James, Virginia Woolf, Kafka, Lorca, Baudelaire, and a list of on display some of the products of New Directions Books from the years of its infancy to its present flourishing state. Books, pamphlets, letters from the authors, and pictures are combined to create a rather interesting survey of a little known phase...
...Virginia Woolf was the unlikeliest artist on earth to stoop to propaganda, or to any form of public ingratiation. She did not do so here. Yet England and its people, its present, past, innocence and disease, are here summarized, in much the way a nightwind can summarize a continent...