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...VIRGINIA WOOLF-David Daiches-New Directions...
...late, probably great Virginia Woolf, Chicago University's David Daiches has written a helpful set of program notes for lay readers...
...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...