Word: essayed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...express purpose of gathering together as many as possible of the cheapest sort of magazines for sale in the Times Square district. He worked on the theory that the Grub Street products of an age had a distinct place in its literary history. William W. Watt, in his essay on the penny, sixpenny and shilling Gothic stories that persisted long after "Frankenstein" and "The Monk" had passed out of fashion, has proved this unanswerably...
...Watt has made a delightful, as well as searching, essay out of this somewhat minor subject. He recounts many of the amusing plots, and shows their amazing similarity. Various of the characters he describes with sympathy and humor, and points out recurrent mannerisms in style: the sighs, exclamations, and questions of the heroine, the Latinate names, and the "sententious association of polysyllabic ratiocination." If all honors and Ph.D. theses were made as interesting as this one, the many attacks on the scholarship and pedantry of universities would be unfounded...
...essay signed "A Student" apparently had been penned by one of the young editors. Excerpts: "Sounding trumpet-calls to youth is a sorry and futile gesture. . . . With the time ripe as it hasn't been in 150 years for youth really to start something, to organize and make its influence felt, nothing will happen...
...Eliot is here chiefly concerned with the sanity and breadth of Dryden's genius, and the influence of those qualities of the poet on English poetry from his day to our own. In the first essay of the book he says: "It was Dryden who for the first time, and as far as we are concerned, for all time, established a normal English speech, a speech valid for both verse and prose, and imposing its laws which greater poetry than Dryden's might violate, but which no poetry since has overthrown." This statement covers both of Mr. Eliot's main...
...British citizen, where he is editor of "The Criterion," is widely known, both as a poet and critical essayist. He received "The Dial" award for poetry in 1922. His most widely, known works are: "The Sacred Wood," "The Waste Land," "Homage to John Dryden," "Poems: 1909-1925," "An Essay of Poetic Drama," "Shakespeare and the Stoicism of Seneca," "For Lancelot Andrews" and "Dante...