Word: elizabethan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Elizabethan times people sang deft. contrapuntal madrigals for amusement, as they now play bridge. The present series 'is the first devoted to madrigals by continental European composers...
...writing. Of Gogarty the "wit, poet, mocker, enthusiast" and original of bawdy Buck Mulligan in Joyce's Ulysses, the poet is about all that remains. As hagiographer of Ireland's patron saint, Gogarty writes as one on holy ground, and it has taken most of the Elizabethan starch...
...University School's youngsters, art "played a vital part." One year they had a medieval Christmas, painted a church doorway for scenery. Other years they celebrated Christmas in the style of Sweden, Russia, Elizabethan England. They illustrate their book with paintings, photographs of their work, themes. Sample literary work (a summary...
...thing new appears. When Decline and Fall, published in 1929, won extraordinary acclaim for its 25-year-old author, critics said that Waugh looked like England's strongest claim to a first-rate satirist. As it was followed with weaker tales, perfunctory travel books, a pious biography of Elizabethan Edmund Campion, and as Waugh became more interested in politics, his novels became more like those of an ax-grinding P. G. Wodehouse...
...mountain folk of Kentucky, Tennessee and the Carolinas still follow customs and use much of the lingo of their early colonial ancestors. Though many of them are illiterate, they have handed down by word of mouth, from generation to generation, ballads and hymns that can be traced to Elizabethan England. Still popular among them are such hoary items as Sir Patrick Spens, Barbara Allen, Robin Hood and Little John...