Word: elegiacally
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...tone of Powell's books recalls Chekhov-the elegiac irony of a world where the last of the wormy, golden apples of Empire were falling from the tree. Yet the essence of Jenkins' war with the world is neither bound to a period nor insularly British. It is essentially a secular tragedy told in the idiom of understatement (which Novelist Powell admits "has its own banality"); there is a pit beneath the parquet floor and the Old School Tie may become a garrote. It needs all his well-tended prose to keep the corpse of nihilism buried...
...Harris: Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight (Nell Tangeman and chamber group; M-G-M). A deeply pulsing lament of heavy piano chords (played by Composer Harris' wife Johana) and elegiac countermelodies played by the violin and cello. Mezzo-Soprano Tangeman sings the Vachel Lindsay words with power and feeling to produce some fine music...
Vaughan Williams: Mass in G Minor (Fleet Street Choir, conducted by T. B. Lawrence; London). A massive and elegiac work, written in 1923 by the dean of British composers. Through masterful maneuvering of block harmonies and medieval modes, he produces an antique flavor appropriate to the subject without once sounding musty...
...dictator and nobody knows "Of any world where promises were kept/Or one could weep because another wept." But even this poem is all too predictable to anyone familiar with Auden's work. Still more predictable are Marianne Moore spinning fine verbal webs, Wallace Stevens in a suavely elegiac mood, E. E. Cummings broken out in lyrical wonder. As for the younger poets, most are earnestly prosy, weary beyond their years, and cautiously derivative...
...poem is redeemed by an elegiac backward look to the early days of Paterson, when "the breathing spot of the village was the triangle square . . . Well shaded by trees with a common in the center where the country circus pitched its tents...