“He writes in the great English tradition, but brings a note that is essentially his own at the same time.”
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“It is always difficult to analyse charm, but in this instance the effect of the attraction is that we are apt to like poems that have very palpable faults.”
+ − Spec 124:86 Jl 17 ’20 430w + The Times [London] Lit Sup p443 Jl 8 ’20 60w
PHILLPOTTS, EDEN. Evander. *$2 Macmillan
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“Evander is an apostle of plain living and high thinking in the early days when the gods of Olympus had not settled their respective rights in the hierarchy of worship and when marriage was still a rare thing among humble folk. Festus and Livia were perhaps the first among their neighbours to wed, under the auspices of Bacchus, while Evander, as the votary of Apollo, endeavours to convert her to the higher worship of his god. He succeeds for a time in gaining her allegiance, and she leaves her husband to follow him, but finds the mental atmosphere too rarefied for her, and finally returns to her home and husband, Bacchus being able to show his half-brother the unwisdom of vengeance on Festus.”—Sat R
“The delicate, bright atmosphere in which this enchanting book is bathed must be left for the reader to enjoy.” K. M.
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