Word: wordsworth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...moment about political figures or popular songs, Flanders and Swann are gaily whimsical the next about animals (their specialty) or plants in love. Their tone is sophisticated; they never spell words out, and use many that are foreign. Their joking is educated, with here a lurking bit of Wordsworth, there a pun on Kyd. They can be most lively when most deadpan, and most deadly when most daft. But their triumph rests on their total effect. Delightful as their songs can be (one is about an Oxford-bred cannibal who no longer likes eating people), the evening would grow...
...William Wordsworth and the Loss of Joy," by Donald T. Wesling '60, took second prize, and Jonathan F. Beecher '58 placed third with his essay, "Saint-Simon's Second Circumspection: His Legacy to 1848." The awards are $600, $400, and $150, respectively...
...Oxford. Victorian and Edwardian euphemisms such as "bally" and "ruddy" work their way into the tale of a British knight who once "allowed some hornswoggling highbinder to stick him with . . . dud Smelly River Ordinaries"*-and, of course, there are the usual Wodehousian references to or quotations from Shakespeare and Wordsworth, Walt Whitman, Lord Tennyson and Publishers Knopf, Holt, Doubleday, Simon & Schuster-all balled up together...
...adolescence, on the other hand, was dismal. It began to matter that she outweighed her contemporaries. As W. G. Rogers says in his book, When you see this remember me Gertrude Stein in person, "The normal adolescent girl, busy with playmates, clothes, parties, school lessons, does not read Wordsworth, Scott, and other poets, a set of Shakespeare with notes, Burns, Congressional Records, encyclopedias; she does not absorb Shakespeare nor pore over Clarissa Harlowe, Fielding, Smollett, and a tremendous amount of history." Strangely, she already feared that there would not be enough books to fill her lifetime...
...boxes take their place. These are the manuscripts, original autograph first drafts of letters and various other works, from most of the great authors of the modern period. Even a partial list of the manuscripts obtained this year would include such names as Bayle, Montaigne, Lamb, Gray, Kierkegaard, Southey, Wordsworth, Swinburne, Zola, O'Neill, Synge, and Yeats...