Word: lyricized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...changed attitude of the others, back to their normal indulgence towards a dowdy little bitch, cast a dream-like veil over the whole episode. Not until May, when her kennel rolled with black puppy-shapes, was she sure that she had really heard the Dark Gentleman's lyric blandishments. Author Stern, social chronicler, (The Matriarch, A Deputy Was King, Thunderstorm), now deserves a niche no whit below Christopher Morley's (Where the Blue Begins), from dog-lovers. If he could read it, Toes would ejaculate: "Great Spratt! I say, you chaps, that is a book! My copy...
...buggy-couples wooed each other with "Connaistu le Pays?" sweet lyric by Ambroise Thomas. As old Dobbin ambled along the moon-patched road He would lean his head against her leg-of-mutton sleeve, and She would trill: "Knowest thou the Land?" So thorough a wooing song did this aria from Mignon become that the opera itself became boresome. People refused to go hear...
Last week, after almost 20 years, the Metropolitan produced Mignon again. The lyric is based, of course, on Goethe's sentimental play, Wilhelm Meister. Mignon, nobleman's daughter, had long been held captive by gypsies. But she dimly remembers her home. This memory grows intense after she meets dazed Lothario, who really is her father, gone daft. Sportive Wilhelm Meister she grows to love, and flirting Philene she hates. Marion Talley, adequate as Philene, showed progress as an operatic actress. Lucrezia Bori, who sang Mignon last week kept merry an audience of 4,000, many of whom...
...whole book, Mr. Lindsay builds up an aery fantasy of verse as free in line and thought as the natural beauty which inspired it. Even the Anglo-Saxon carying a heavy load of civilization up the mountain has enough of the savage in him to appreciate this lyric interpretation of the liberty of the open summit...
...long inhabited, would perish in the rigers of a "wilderness." His name is Ezra Pound.* When first he appeared in London, a most erratic youth much given to "raw silk of good color," violent tennis and fencing, more violent language and gestures, and to two strong veins of poetry, lyric and satirical, he was adopted by descendants of the Pre-Raphaelite movement-as far as a wildish young man can be adopted. They liked his "splendid invective," fashioned after the Greeks. He carried them away with his fleet excursions into the past-Norman England, old France, Rome, Egypt, Cathay-where...