Gordon Bottomley devoted his artistic energies to poetry and to poetic drama in the manner of William Butler Yeats. He had published two volumes of poems before he turned to drama at the beginning of ...
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In the following excerpt, McMahan offers a favorable review of A Vision of Giorgione.
[A] beautiful specimen of book-making is Mr. Gordon Bottomley's A Vision of Giorgione, which has all the...
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In the following excerpt, Firkins reviews Laodice and Danaë.
In Laodice and Danaë an Oriental queen of sunken authority kills a maid of honor who has saved her conspiring lover from t...
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In the following excerpt, Firkins reviews Gruach and Britain's Daughter.
Mr. Gordon Bottomley in his early British plays [in Gruach and Britain's Daughter] takes us so very far in so ...
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In the following excerpt, Jameson discusses strengths and weaknesses in King Lear's Wife.
Mr. Gordon Bottomley is … a poet. King Lear's Wife is a poem, arranged in the form of ...
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The following review offers a positive assessment of Gruach and Britain's Daughter.
How large Mr. Bottomley's audience for his verse dramas is going to be, either in the theatre or in...
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In the following excerpt, Bryant reviews A Vision of Giorgione.
These poems of Mr. Bottomley's—stories of Giorgione—were published in a collected edition twelve years ago in Am...
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In the following essay, Warren reviews Poems of Thirty Years.
Perhaps one of the best known of Mr. Bottomley's poems is “The End of the World.” In frozen phrases, light as the ...
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In the following excerpt, Fairchild discusses major themes and ideas in Bottomley's poetry.
Born in 1874, Gordon Bottomley published two immature and derivative volumes of verse in the ninet...
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In the following excerpt, Spanos focuses on the religious pageant The Acts of Saint Peter.
Like the post-Romantic poetic Histories, the pre-Canterbury Pageant drama sought to infuse poetry into Bib...
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