Word: lyrically
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...Negroes, a little boy walks "like a good prize fighter returning to his corner . . . after a round in which he has done very well" and says: "Harry Walker, that's my name." ^ Talking to You, a straight dream, constructs a context of strange beauty in which the following lyric occurs...
...Lyric Writer Bud Green had a new twist, but little else, in his On the Old Assembly Line, to Ray Henderson's music. End of the chorus...
Other great scene: the dance of the rolls. Unable to speak his happiness at having Georgia (Georgia Hale), the dance-hall girl he hopelessly adores, take dinner with him, the Little Fellow impales two rolls on forks and transforms them into the lyric legs of a ballet dancer, footing it with furious featness...
...February issue reaches such heights only through its, poets led by Katinka Loeser, an alumna of Chicago, currently studying aviation. Her "Modern Language" combines in sixteen short lines a concise explanation of the problems and techniques of the modern writers with a poetic expression coming as near the lyric as the static quality of intellectual poetry will permit. This same bound lyricism, gaining in immediacy and intellectual intenseness what it loses in fluid song, characterizes all the better poems of the issue. Helen Wieselburg's "Starway," and Creighton Gilbert's "War Poem" again display the advantages as well...
Joyce's three major works are seen by Levin as a progression from the lyric form, in which the creation and the artist are inextricably intertwined, to the epic in which the creation is in mediate relation between the artist and others, to the dramatic, in which it is in immediate relation to others. "Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man" exemplifies the first phase, "Ulysses" the second, and "Finnegan's Wake" the last. If it might seem to some readers that the last two have achieved only the most tenuous relationship with "others," Levin's study does much...