Word: lyricized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...delicacies. Arnold Schpnberg, Florent Schmitt, Sergei Prokofiev, Ernest Bloch, Arthur Honegger were all well represented by new works, guaranteed to irritate unaccustomed ears. A new composer of unquestioned merit was also brought to light oh this occasion. He is Alexander von Zemlinsky, an Austro-Czecho-Slovakian. His Third, or "Lyric", Symphony was performed; its seven long movements are all built around a single leading motif: the theme of "a man bent on conquest and adventure, to whom love is but an episode in a life of combat and struggle." Zemlinsky used a baritone voice and many kettledrums to bring home...
...Army in April, 1861, mustered out as Brigadier General in October, 1865, the Nestor of the House of Representatives, rose before his colleagues in council: "In all the 60 years that have elapsed since the war there has not been one great dramatic poem written, one lyric equal to the soldiers' songs sung during that war, nor one of high moral import. We are living in a utilitarian age, and the spirit that actuated that great war appears to have gone. "What have we now? Yes, We Have No Bananas, Take Us To the Land of Jazz, Hail, Hail...
SUNRISE TRUMPETS?Joseph Auslander?Harper ($2.00). Lyric poems, intense, fragmentary, abruptly lovely; their chiseled imagery entirely unhackneyed and often breathtakingly beautiful. One hears the "bronze murmur of bees," feels a ship at night "lifted to the level of the rime-stung stars," knows the "shattered silver" and "crushed gray light" of rain, and the devastating beauty of women long dead?Yseult, Marie Antoinette, Guinevere...
...Hilaire Belloc ?McBride ($2.75). The jacket blurb announces that the author has here collected, with a few exceptions, "all his poems which he wishes to preserve." Some of them justify the lifted eye-brow which would query "Why?" Regrettable pages of triviality are interspersed with redeeming gleams of lyric beauty...
...Bridges was born in 1844. He studied to be a physician and practised his profession until 1882 when he retired. At the death of Alfred Austin, in 1913, he was made Poet Laureate of England. His literary activities have been varied; but his chief fame is as a lyric poet. A new anthology of poetry edited by Mr. Bridges is soon to be published in this country...