Word: lyric
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...interplay of a neurotic count's daughter and her sadistic butler lover baring their psyches for two hours is about as static as an opera can get without freezing right in its tracks. To give it life and thrust, music of explosive lyric power and sweep was needed. Rorem, a conservative composer who scorns the avant-garde ("They are all writing the same piece"), provided instead a score that is largely music-to-probe-the-subconscious-by-moody, groaning, occasionally dissonant. The few lighter moments-a duet between two village lovers, the chorus celebrating the festival of Midsummer...
...hospital where the poet lay stricken with a "massive alcoholic insult to the brain." The answer is no. Twelve years after his death, even people who think poetry is what appears on greeting cards have heard the legend that the wild Welsh wonderboy was the greatest lush, lecher, and lyric poet produced in this century by the English-speaking world...
...Bards began in the 18th century, and before long, these professional singers had assembled enormous anthologies of sijo. In one of them occurs a macabre little lyric by Yi Jong-bo that reads like one of Rimbaud's more lurid Illuminations...
...Stella the organization for his Coney Island, with its warring scene of roller coasters and jumbled humanity. German expressionism gave the discipline to Marsden Hartley's strong Maine landscapes fishermen and lumberjacks. Georgia O'Keeffe, now 77 and living in New Mexico, depicts with barebone simplicity her lyric view of "my country−terrible winds and wonderful emptiness." Even more sharp-focused was Charles Demuth's I saw the Figure 5 in Gold, with its exulation of typography and kaleidoscopic street imagery, is now revered as an icon...
Goethe was a notable philosopher, a crack professional scientist, a successful political administrator, a stylist second to none in German literature, a major novelist and dramatist, and probably the most richly expressive lyric poet who ever lived-a genius who differed in kind but not in degree from Dante and Shakespeare. He wrote a hundred times more than either of them-his collected works fill 150 volumes-and consequently more of what he wrote is dated; The Sorrows of Young Werther, for instance, reads in this unsentimental century like soap opera written in gold ink. But his finest works-Iphigenia...