Word: lyric
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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SELECTED POEMS, by Andrei Voznesensky. These first-rate translations by W. H. Auden and others justify Voznesensky's reputation as Russia's finest lyric poet since Pasternak...
...Russia, and his public readings have packed a Moscow sports palace with 14,000 bellowing poetry buffs. What is more, in these always adequate and sometimes redoubtable translations, Voznesensky (pronounced Voz-nes-yen-ski) considerably surpasses Evtushenko in poetic capacity. He is indisputably the most powerful lyric poet to appear in Russia since Pasternak...
...book was written largely during the final racking months before Welch's heart gave out. Echoing his own tragedy, it is a lyric, rebellious plaint of pain, fear and despair...
gaining its interest from a doubling of the natural number of stresses those words demand. Earlier, in Opus 6's "Desolation Row," a typical fine lyric operated within the confines of natural speech rhythm and normal stress...
Little can be said about the most powerful of these songs. "Sad Eyed Lady of the lands" has no lyric language quite as beautiful as its title; it could only be misrepresented by summary or excerpting. Let it be note that the "lowlands" seem to be the opposite of "pot's "highlands," and that the song seems already to have acquired some reputation psychedelic roadmap. No doubt they that will know will know. Here below, we can only await the next installment of Time Magazine's running gloss on pop music drug allusions...