Word: wordsworth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Samuel Marshak's Twelve Months is the only surprise package in the book-and the best. Author Marshak is a translator of Wordsworth, Blake, Keats, Shakespeare, Burns, and his new play is a lyrical fantasy on the old Christmas pantomime model, complete with the wicked old woman, Cinderella-girl, a young queen, talking animals and magic wands. Twelve Months does nothing to establish a new tradition, but it does add charm and poetry to a very...
Howard Mumford Jones, professor of English, told the CRIMSON, "I have held that view for a long time." He said that in general, as American and British cultures drift inevitably apart, there is no sense in trying to impose a foreign culture upon this country. He asked, "What does Wordsworth mean to a high school boy in South Dakota...
These three lines of Wordsworth, says 72-year-old Editor Arthur Aull, are the rules he runs his paper by. Editor Aull also calls by their plain name things that smell far less sweet. Result: his Lamar, Mo. Daily Democrat (circ. 1,609) is one of the most widely quoted bush leaguers in the country...
...dingy boyhood † and his youth as a Greek Orthodox seminarist and, later, a revolutionary political organizer and jailbird, suffers from lack of documentation. Trotsky scrupulously indicates the variegated reliability of his scanty sources, most of them boy hood friends and later enemies of Stalin, whose comments suggest William Wordsworth's definition of lyric poetry: strong emotion recollected in tranquillity (usually in jail or exile). He also makes devastating use of the official encomiums* written (usually in fear of jail or exile) after Stalin became powerful. The happy paucity of source materials enables Trotsky to draw the same kind...
...justify God's ways to man. He was almost as simple as the simplest of Wordsworth, but like Wordsworth he was capable of Miltonic splendor...