Cabell, James Branch
Cabell, James Branch( 1879–1958),born in Virginia, graduated from William and Mary (1898), and began his literary career with The Eagle's Shadow (1904), a romance of modern money-worship. With The Line of Love (1905), short stories set in medieval times, he began his sophisticated romanticizing of historical themes, continued in Gallantry (1907) and Chivalry (1909). The Cords of Vanity (1909) is a romance of contemporary Virginia, and later novels with similar settings include The Rivet in Grandfather's Neck (1915), satirizing the romantic idealism of the South, and The Cream of the Jest (1917). He is best known for his series of urbane, highly mannered, pseudo-erudite romances of Dom Manuel, set in the mythical medieval country of Poictesme. The first of these was The Soul of Melicent (1913; revised as Domnei, 1920); others are Jurgen (1919), which attracted much attention...
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