Word: lyric
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Unless some poets are willing to experiment with words set to music, the lyric impulse may fade out completely," C. Day Lewis warned when he spoke--and sang--in last night's Charles Eliot Norton lecture...
Lewis' speech, entitled "Words and Music," pointed out the difficulties of creating a simple lyric today. The British poet suggested that writing words for music can help by "clearing away much of the verbal undergrowth." The music can be a "cover for the simplicity of the words," Lewis explained...
...Despite the distractions, smash musical after smash musical kept materializing on the quires of composition paper he kept in his luggage. By 1937, he had done 15 of them, including Paris, Fifty Million Frenchmen, Red, Hot and Blue, and Anything Goes, the show which contained a lyric whose rhymes and similes transfigured the art and cast the moon-June school into lasting shade...
...Lewis, Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry for 1964-65, will begin this year's Norton lecture series at 8 p.m. tonight in Sanders Theatre. The topic of the first lecture--and of the whole series--is "The Lyric Impulse...
...Lewis will begin his Charles Eliot Norton Lectures on poetry at 8 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 21, in Sanders Theatre. Lewis' first lecture is entitled "The Lyric Impulse"; he will speak on "Words and Music" Oct. 28 and "The Story Lyric...