Sonnets of City Life and Evening Calm
A meditation on urban confinement contrasted with the heavenward calm of nature. The speaker longs for open skies and gentle romance as the day ends, listening to birds and watching clouds drift while feeling time slip away.
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Translating French texts poses stylistic challenges for Lang
The article discusses translator Andrew Lang and the difficulties of rendering French into English while preserving style. It notes his method of reading Balzac without a dictionary, praises the effort to capture Homer through translations, and touches on portraits of Rabelais and reactions to Stanely Weyman and his latest novel The Wind Geese.
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Andrew Lang
Pioence
Alexandre Dumas
Homer
Dumas
Alexandre
Lang
Stanley Weyman
Waynen
Shrewsbury
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Tudor Architecture in England Tudor Domestic Style
A critical review of Garner and Stratton The Domestic Architecture of England During the Tudor Period praising its practical focus and documentary plates. It notes royal dissensions and monastery dissolutions funded Tudor building, the shift to comfortable home life, and Italian influence on English Gothic forms while defending the book’s originality and photographic drawings.
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Arthur Stratton
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Henry
Elizabeth
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