Word: ballads
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...singing line" when used in the modern ballad can express basic mysteries of modern life, C. Day Lewis said last night in the third of his Charles Eliot Norton Lectures...
...Lewis cautioned modern poets against misusing other techniques, as Scott and Tennyson did. Too much sensibility can destroy the ballad's austere but intense story line, and too much self-consciousness or psychology can make it overly cruel or moralizing, he said...
...have to avoid condescension and not value the ballad for its quaintness," Lewis said. "It is still very much alive...
...becomes a dockside agitator and strike leader, as his father once was-a hazardous occupation that results in his violent death. Kenneth Haigh, who was the original Jimmy Porter in Look Back in Anger, is just right as the hero. Bart's music is beautifully done-"edging towards ballad-opera," as the Times put it-and full of the rhythms and sounds he picks up by wandering the streets with a tape recorder. The book by Alun Owen, who wrote the script of A Hard Day's Night for Liverpool's own Beatles, is a masterwork...
...Your Eyes, which was an early failure, having begun its existence, startlingly enough, as a military march called I'm Marching Off to War. Bagley also has some high-powered Coward, most notably an item called Carrie Was a Careful Girl, which is, of all things, a ballad about contraceptives...