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...produced him. In no other country could Sir Edmund William Gosse (1849-1928) have been at the same time so respectable and so successful. And few men even in England have added knighthood** to their grey hairs by pursuing to the end such a hog-calling as a literary critic's. Evan Charteris's biography, which lets Gosse's own letters do most of the work, gives a fair picture of this peripatetic, ponderous but proficient policeman of Parnassus...
Married. Pare Lorentz, 30, cinema-critic of the New York Evening Journal and Judge; and Sally Bates, 23, actress (An American Tragedy; Sweet Adeline; Up Pops the Devil); in Oswego...
...quotation, often unjust, cannot do Willa Cather justice. Her manner of writing has little in common with her noisy day. Characterized by an English critic as "that rara avis, an autochthonous American author," she is most conveniently classified by negatives. Says the same critic: "The King Charles's head of psychoanalysis and experiment in genre does not keep continually turning up in her books as they do [sic] in those rather Mr. Dick-like compositions of Mr. Sherwood Anderson for instance." Unlike Sinclair Lewis, she does not bite her country's hand; unlike Edith Wharton (whose example influenced...
...whom she read aloud from English classics, and a storekeeping uncle who, an Oxford graduate, taught her Latin, were important aids to her education. Her first writing was for the Lincoln State Journal. After she was graduated from the University of Nebraska, Willa Cather went to Pittsburgh, became dramatic critic on the Leader. Then she tried teaching English at the Allegheny High School, wrote verse in off-hours, published a book of it (April Twilights) in 1903. Famed Editor Samuel Sidney McClure, to whom she sent her first stories, published them, gave her a job on McClure's Magazine...
Young U. S. Critic Lewis Mumjord's ends, "difficult of achievement," are: "To be alive, to act, to contemplate, to embody significance and value, to become fully human...