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...black boxes take their place. These are the manuscripts, original autograph first drafts of letters and various other works, from most of the great authors of the modern period. Even a partial list of the manuscripts obtained this year would include such names as Bayle, Montaigne, Lamb, Gray, Kierkegaard, Southey, Wordsworth, Swinburne, Zola, O'Neill, Synge, and Yeats...
...Dunciad, Alexander Pope's genius and malice made Colley Cibber memorable ; in The Vision of Judgment, Byron made Southey immortal. But if the name of Victor Purcell-or Myra Buttle-is remembered in a hundred years it will be for the fact that he threw a dead cat at a living poet. Before The Sweeniad nears its inevitable conclusion ("This is the way that Sweeney ends. Not with a curse but a mutter"), the satire has fallen heavily among the bric-a-brac...
...Robert Southey...
...Other Oxonian exceptions: Matthew Arnold, Walter Savage Landor, Southey, Swinburne and a second cousin of Reader Hopkins, the Jesuit poet Gerard Manley Hopkins...
Died. Samuel Southey Hinds, 73, silver-haired Hollywood character actor (Destry Rides Again, Call Northside 777); in Pasadena, Calif. A great-grandson of British Poet Laureate Robert Southey, Hinds was a millionaire lawyer who went broke in 1929, turned to the movies as a bit-player, in time became known to millions of moviegoers by playing the distinguished man of wealth he had once been in real life...