Word: classicized
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...causes for its popularity it seems to me that the season of the year is largely instrumental. What is more refreshing than to spend a part of a day in the most glorious season of the year, indulging in the activities of an enthusiastic spectator at a college football classic? I have seen people in the audience at the Stadium aroused almost to a point of participation in the slashing plays that they see executed before them...
However that may be, Masefield's latest production, "A Tale of Troy," is disappointing even to his admirers. It is absorbingly interesting, and as a short story it may live and be enjoyed, but it is an absurd prostitution of an epic theme. The author has imitated classic simplicity and primitive crudeness; he has made his characters tell the tale, and thereby lost the godlike detachment of the theme; he has tried the balled stanza and has made a Indicrous failure of that difficult form so losing all claim to poetic merit. Use of the classic device anacolnthon has made...
...Bernhardt, Le Gallienne et al, is represented as a wan, coughing angel-on-earth who gives up her life for a pure love. No more wan, pale or pathetic lady of the camellias ever crept the boards than Lillian Gish, who appeared last week in Manhattan in the Dumas classic...
...word might be said about Dr. Blossom's translation. In many ways it lacks that which made C. K. Scott-Moncriess' translation, one of the best examples of the art in English. The Classic flavor, for instance, of that great scholar's prose, so admirably suited to the epic "Remembrance of Things Past" is, has disappeared. On the other hand, Dr. Blossom has a marvelous command of the colloquial idiom which brings out another side of Proust's French. But in any case, "The Past Recaptured" is a vast improvement over the former translation, never published in this country, titled...
...letters in any department are no longer colonial to Britishers, with the possible exceptions of detective stories and letters-to-the-Times. But while a glaring U. S. dawn silhouets many a crude indigenous growth, England's politely setting sun bathes her literary garden in a relatively classic glow. English readers dislike and distrust such experimenters as James Joyce and David Herbert Lawrence. And many a U. S. reader, Tory if no longer colonial, shares the British dread of untrimmed edges, prefers the clipped formality of more traditional writers. For such tastes Authoresses Rosamond Lehmann, Margaret Kennedy and Victoria...