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...year of great literary deaths - James Joyce, Sherwood Anderson, Virginia Woolf, Elizabeth Madox Roberts. It was also a year of valedictions: Virginia Woolf, Thomas Wolfe, Scott Fitzgerald and Elizabeth Madox Roberts spoke their last words as artists...
Died. Elizabeth Madox Roberts, 55, Kentucky poet and novelist whose grave, searching stories of her mountain people (The Time of Man, Black is my True-love's Hair, Song in the Meadow) were told with a dignity of language that made her one of America's most distinguished women writers; of anemia; in Orlando...
...STRANGE GODS-Elizabeth Madox Roberts-Viking...
Since 1932 Elizabeth Madox Roberts (The Time of Man, The Great Meadow) has published two novels, a book of verse, no short stories until this week. Not by Strange Gods is a set of six. They concern themselves 80% with sensitive females, 100% with Kentucky...
...these as in all her elegant, strange writings Elizabeth Madox Roberts combines the qualities of a dancer, a painter, an anthropologist and a woman. As a dancer she handles space and motion with uncommon delicateness: the void of a deserted mansion, the soft shiftings-together of barn beasts, the motions of two small sisters who, with entwined arms, "pulled and twisted each other about as one creature." As a painter she delivers some of the most firmly structural, curiously cleansed landscapes in U. S. writing. As an anthropologist she is almost too sharply aware of the symbolic undertones of rural...