His Marmoreal Calm

"The formal perfection and clarity of her prose recall the work of one of her heroes, Edward Gibbon. Yet she contemplated and described in rapid, vivid detail scenes of past and present horror that would have robbed even the unflappable historian of the Roman Empire of
his marmoreal calm."
William Wauer  Herwarth Walden 1917 Bronze with black patina

William Wauer 
Herwarth Walden 1917
Bronze with black patina

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