Word: xanadu
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...time, one who has harmoniously blended the gift of erudition and the gift of criticism. He has touched nothing he has not adorned. His "Convention and Revelt in Poetry" is a milestone in criticism. His work as an interpreter of Chaucer is unique. In "The Road to Xanadu" he has shown how psychological insight, uniting with exact and discriminating scholarship, can illumine the creative imagination of poets...
Kublai, the mighty Khan who in the 13th Century ruled from the Yellow Sea to Poland, used to decree the pitching of his gorgeous Mongol tent every summer on the wide grasslands of Xanadu or Shangtu a few hundred miles north of Peking, which he enlarged and made his Capital. Last week this same region of "Xanadu" was news again. Its trading post Dolonnor ("Seven Lakes") had been captured by the "Christian War Lord" Feng Yu-hsiang (TIME, July 24). Last week the great voice of War Lord Feng rumbled out of his barrel chest: "I command 100,000 soldiers...
...Charles W. Eliot John William Walsh Carvantes: Don Quixote Class of 1935 Caesari Lombardo Barber History of Wars of Charles XII Charles Edwin Carr Urry's Chaucer Philippe Dur Defee: Robinson Crusoe Maurice Franks Frost's Poems George Lee Haskins Everybody's Pepys John Joseph Hession Lowes: Road to Xanadu Robert Kramer Morison: Development of Harvard University Donald Vincent McGranahan Oxford Book of English Verse Thomas Burton O'Connor Thomson's Poems Leonard Raum Chesterfield's Letters to his Son Herbert Ellis Robbins Everybody's Boswell Edwin Marion Snell Johnson's Lives of the Poets Robert Wetmore Stoughton Shelley...
...dusty and the dead. In answer it must be said that it is by such dusty and often seemingly irrelevant detail that creative knowledge is broadened and the sum of human satisfactions is increased. Without the hum-drummery of fact-finding, Coleridge could never have reared in Xanadu the pleasure dome of the Khan. It is interesting to speculate as to what Coleridge would have made of the masterpiece in question if there had been a Rockefeller to pay the bills...
John Livingston Lowes, professor of English, and author of "The Road to Xanadu", is the first recipient of this professorship, which is given to a distinguished American professor, and he will occupy the chair at Oxford next year...