Word: essayed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...technique was so finished, whose lyrical expression was so singularly free from the trite and the trivial. The consistency of the verse speaks of care in composition, but seldom are the marks of the task visible. The prose, including "Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester and English Humanism" (the Potter Prize essay for 1928), and a number of stories, is adequate; the verses, however, make the volume what...
POETRY - John Masefield - Macmillan John Collings Squire once defined poetry as the writings of Chaucer, Spenser, Milton, et al. In the present essay, lately (Oct. 15) delivered as a lecture at the Queen's Hall in London, John Mase field follows much the same track, defines poetry by quoting it. He is less nationalistic than Editor Squire; Shakespeare, Dante, Aeschylus and Homer are Poetry to him. His poetic license having been conferred on him by royal appointment, Laureate Masefield does not hesitate to use it. Specimens: Poetry "is best in lands of vintage and in those sunny years which...
This conclusion serves the purposes of law & order. It is not in keeping with the rest of the picture, which is a chipper, hardboiled, amusing essay on petty thievery. In his first starring performance, James Cagney has a role in which he is more mischievous than wicked. He makes rascality seem both easy and attractive as he did in The Public Enemy and Smart Money, two previous works by Authors Kubec Glasmon and John Bright who wrote Blonde Crazy. Good shot: Cagney casting hungry glances at the female patrons of a nightclub...
...classical scholarship is not given merely for mastery of Greek and Latin. The examination will demand an essay, calculated to test his powers of original thought and expression, and a general paper which demands a fairly thorough saturation in English history and literature. Here again the school has gone out of its way to "polish him up" and the result is that he has had plenty of experience in concentrated reading in fields other than the classics. These fields also have a peculiar suitability for provoking thought about himself...
...over in the eight weeks of the Oxford term has been assigned at the beginning of the previous vacation, which varies from six weeks (Christmas and Easter) to four months (summer). It is an unwritten law that you must not attempt to take as a basis for a formal essay anything which you are reading for the first time...