Upton Sinclair, a lifelong vigorous socialist, first became well known with a powerful muckraking novel, The Jungle, in Refused by five publishers and finally published by Sinclair himself, it became an immediate bestseller, and inspired a government investigation of the Chicago stockyards, which led to much reform.
In he was invited by President Lyndon Johnson to "witness the signing of the Wholesome Meat Act, which will gradually plug loopholes left by the first Federal meat inspection law" N. Times , a law Sinclair had helped to bring about. Newspapers, colleges, schools, churches, and industries have all been the subject of a Sinclair attack, analyzing and exposing their evils. Sinclair was not really a novelist, but a fearless and indefatigable journalist-crusader.
All his early books are propaganda for his social reforms. It was stanzaic, not linear; it could train the ear in a more elaborate melody and counterpoint. His observations about Hamlet, Troilus , and the last plays are not, and make no claim to be, startlingly original. Novel readings of Shakespeare are out of order for undergraduates who are still barely acquainted with the traditional ones.
I am glad that Mr. Purves has included in his selection a few light and humorous pieces. The one I enjoyed most—it reminded me of E. From then on there was no stopping her. Her two husbands tried; one dropped dead, the other went mad. In she prophesied that the Duke of Buckingham would die in August; he did.
Emboldened by success, she foretold that King Charles would come to a bad end like Belshazzar. This was too much, and she was arrested. Her persecutors, Archbishop Laud and King Charles, both ended on the scaffold, and she hailed Cromwell as the deliverer of his people.
By this time, however, her crossword skill seems to have deteriorated. It was the last, and also for she had added an H and forgotten the C the worst of her anagrams. From the time, soon after I came to the States, when I first met Professor Spencer, he became both a friend and a literary mentor, to whom I would show my unpublished writings and whose criticisms I found to be invariably just and helpful. To me, therefore, his premature death was and has remained, both a personal and a professional loss.
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Aprotean figure even in the nineteenth century, Sir Richard Burton has become practically a synonym for polymath in ours. Looking at the Evidence. The result is two of the most soberly considered looks yet at Burton—and by extension, Speke.
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