Word: testament
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hoped that the able criticism appearing in your, at all times, pithy columns regarding the Testament of Beauty will attract the attention it deserves...
...Poet. The Testament of Beauty is dedicated by the Poet Laureate to his King. Hitherto the Bridges Laureateship has been characterized by inactivity. Of all the line of laureates (which has included Dryden, Southey, Wordsworth, Tennyson) he has written the least official poetry. For his annual stipend of £72, and £27 in lieu of a butt of Canary wine, he has produced one thin official volume, October and other poems. Unlike the late great Laureate Tennyson, he has refused to vamp up verses for patriotic occasions and royal birthdays. When he visited...
...Testament of Beauty, which evidently required years in gestation, which is already being compared in England with Chaucer, Keats and Milton, should compensate for Laureate Bridges' silence. Indeed, it may prove to be the last utterance of the last of the Laureates, for the present Government talks of abolishing the post should it fall vacant in its tenure of office...
Death last month took John Gardner Murray, Presiding Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church. Bishop Murray left a will. But strangely unlike the bequest of a prince of the Church was this last testament. No hospital or needy mission gained by the primate's death. All his estate Bishop Murray left to his wife; there were no bequests to charities...
Birthday. Robert Bridges, poet laureate of England; in London. Age: 85. To celebrate, he published a 4,000-line, four-part poem entitled The Testament of Beauty, his first large work in 39 years. Of it, the London Times said: ". . . The outpouring of the accumulated wisdom, experience, scholarship and poetic craftsmanship of one of the richest and mellowest spirits of our time...