Word: lyricism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Giuseppe Adami made a sorry tale out of scraps some twelve years ago, called it La Rondine (The Swallow) and gave it to Giacomo Puccini. Puccini, himself light-minded at the time, applied a handful of tunes, spliced them in his own skillful way and the result was a "lyric comedy in three acts" that had an indifferent sort of premiere at Monte Carlo in 1917. Last week and by courtesy of the Metropolitan Opera Company it was given its first performance...
...writer he is often criticized as one whose natural vein of mysticism has made him a Platonist, responsive to the mystic vein of Gaelic literature. Richness, sympathy, and mysticism are the chief marks of his lyric poetry, and appear also in his prose-drama on Irish tradition, "Deirdre". He is also a sympathetic and imaginative critic. Deeply interested in the social and political problems of Ireland, he has written and done much for his country in this connection. At one time he was the editor of The Irish Statesman...
With rhythm suited to the thought and spots of soft lyric and charm this poem squeezes through the fence, however, not without groans and short monosyllabic cries, most masculine in volume and tone but emitted from poet-made woman's lips...
...with the modern novel, but "The Dark Chamber" exhibits two of its greatest defects. The irrepressible desire to wallow in the morbidities of sex is one. The other is the continual effort to attain a "precious" style. Cline's efforts run to the use of esoteric words and a "lyric" prose...
Miss Earle gives in lyric form an intimate glimpse of the life of Paolo Strozzi, Italian painter. His lougings, his moods and inspirational moments, embroidered by Miss Earle's imagination, are as well presented as could be expected when it is an Englishwoman, cold and cultured, who tries to fathom the murky moods of an Italian who never once saw them in clear form himself...