英语词汇battle of the aesthetes的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

Battle of the Aesthetes. Irish-born author Ernest Boyd (1887–1946) became an important literary figure after immi- grating to America in 1913. His essay “Aesthete: Model 1924,” which appeared in the first issue of H. L. Mencken’s The Ameri- can Mercury that year, attacked the young idealists of New York’s Greenwich Village and launched what was called the Battle of the Aesthetes. Before it was over, a terrified Boyd suf- fered insulted would-be aesthetes picketing his apartment house, throwing stink bombs through his window, jamming his doorbell with pins, and making obscene phone calls to him in the early hours of the morning.

词汇	battle of the aesthetes
词源	Battle of the Aesthetes. Irish-born author Ernest Boyd (1887–1946) became an important literary figure after immi- grating to America in 1913. His essay “Aesthete: Model 1924,” which appeared in the first issue of H. L. Mencken’s The Ameri- can Mercury that year, attacked the young idealists of New York’s Greenwich Village and launched what was called the Battle of the Aesthetes. Before it was over, a terrified Boyd suf- fered insulted would-be aesthetes picketing his apartment house, throwing stink bombs through his window, jamming his doorbell with pins, and making obscene phone calls to him in the early hours of the morning.
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