Word: lyrical
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lewis, Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry for 1964-65, will begin this year's Norton lectures at 8 p.m. tonight in Sanders Theatre. His first lecture--and the entire series--is entitled "The Lyric Impulse...
...from the others by its sense of Irish gaiety in the midst of bloodletting, of poetry rising from its bitterness. Thus the most rousing songs of the best Irish tenors celebrate some irregular victory or bravely borne defeat. And it is just this-the rich lyric feeling of Irish patriotism-that is the real subject of Michael Farrell's evocative novel of the growth to manhood of Matthew Martin Reilly during the worst of the Irish troubles as they rose to a crescendo at the time of World...
...dustjacket calls Edward Dahlberg's Because I Was Flesh an autobiography--but the inadequacy of this label constantly astounds the reader. For Dahlberg's autobiography is also biography, philosophy and lyric poetry...
...plaster tendrils so slather the rooms that the ceiling is inseparable from the walls. Rococo was ornament become form, rather than the link between forms. It added asymmetry to the earlier style of baroque art, as one would add fantasy to fiction. Where the baroque was epic, rococo was lyric. It had a horror of straight lines, as if such were the symbols of reason and order...
...Mimi, which she has sung at La Scala, Mirella Freni, 29, an Italian lyric soprano of talent and beauty, can hold her own with Tebaldi, De los Angeles and Moffo. Her voice is easy and focused, but her particular strength as the little seamstress is her touching youthfulness. Tenor Ni colai Gedda is equally melodious and moving as her lover. Thomas Schippers conducts the Rome Opera House Orches tra and Chorus impetuously but artfully...