Word: victorian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...kill her because of his belief that she is unfaithful. The shots stir in her a spirit of rebellion which sends her out, in spite of a reconciliation, to defy him. In the playwright's mind she sinks lower and lower. That, however, is against a background of Victorian moral standards. What would happen to Katerina in real life in 1929 would make an entirely different play. Andreyev deals with the Russia of before the War. That Russia is gone, so much of his play vanishes...
Charles Townsend Copeland '82, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, Emeritus, will give a program of readings from the great Victorian writers, on Monday, March 25, in the Dining Room of the Harvard Union. Professor Copeland will make a brief address on Tennyson and Browning, followed by a reading of some of the most noted and best liked selections from their works, as well as from the works of Dickens and Thackeray. Last year, the readings were from Shakespeare and the King James version of the Bible...
President Arthur, "the dilettante mid-Victorian, the ornament of New York club life, draped hangings of pomegranate plush over windows and mantels, built a partition of colored glass across the entrance hall, caused potted palms to spring from the red plush carpets and otherwise strove to reproduce in the interior the funereal effects that prevailed in the homes of wealthy New Yorkers of the period...
...Stephen, Lytton Strachey! It will not be as easy to follow the literary scientists and philosophers; somehow William James and Santayana and Bertrand Russell do not suggest the heights of the ancient Olympus. But they, along with Neitzsche, make better reading. Possibly one thinks too much of those beautiful Victorian beards. But as I write this I think of Havelock Ellis who has the beard, the science, and the literary style too. From this group we cannot exclude Henry Adams...
...have not named Henry James, possibly the greatest of modern English language novelists and possibly greater than that. A victorian in "The American" but a contemporary modern (and a model impossible to copy) in "The Golden Bowl" and the "Wings of the Dove"! All modern English writers have copied him and aped him without success. The which has made many of them damn him! After him come Edith Wharton and Virginia Woolf. And possibly, too, Marcel Proust, as great but in a limited sphere and another tongue...