THE SENTIMENTAL AGE
The age of sentimentalists is to be brought back by the Coronation Year debutantes (states the London, "Daily Telegraph"). ' Young girls who are to attend next year's Courts are reading Tennyson again, and hanging their bedroom walls with copies of the most famous paintings of the pre-Raphaelite School.
Wordsworth is returning to favour. His poem "To Sleep" and Tennyson's "Choric Song" were among the pieces chosen recently for The Poetry Society's recital contest for the prima donna of verse.
Wordsworth and Coleridge have been chosen by Monkey Club members of from seventeen to twentythree years of age for their spring programme. They are also studying Byron,
They are reading Sir Walter Scott's novels and are reviving Ih6 vogue for Carlyle. ,■ :
An important section of their art programmes is devoted to- Victorian painters, including Leighton and Watts. Infant welfare and philosophy are among their other subjects.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 106, 6 May 1936, Page 17
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