Word: lyricized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Johnny Kilbane, featherweight boxing champion: "Newspapers put this lyric in my mouth: ' I have no fear,' says John Kilbane, ' Of any Eugene Criqui; ' Why, bless my honest Irish soul, 'I'll make his voice sound squiki...
PEER GYNT? Ibsen's lyric of rebellion and ambition. Joseph Schildkraut plays the magnificent, ineffectual rebel. He drinks the joys of insurrection and finally tastes its dregs because he is not great enough to be a Prometheus or a Satan...
...poems represents Mr. Abbott at his best. Another sonnet, contributed by Mr. Herbert Jones, begins well and then surrenders to the difficulties of form, tangling the Swinburnian idea in a mass of involved constructions. Mr. Cozzens's "Two Arts" is a tar more competent piece of work, exhibiting the lyric smoothness we demand of modern sonneteers: it is unfortunate, however, that he had to employ a combination of two weak rhymes in his sextet. In his limpid classic fragment called "Separation", Mr. James Sherry Mangau gives us the poignant sensations of a lover deploring the absence of his Hawatian princess...
...interesting article in Musical America, apropos of the Centenary of Home, Sweet Home, relates that the melody of that famous song is an old Italian tune. Payne, who wrote the lyric, heard a peasant girl in Italy singing a lovely snatch of song. He wrote down the notes, and afterward adapted his verses to it. Curiously, when Donizetti wanted a typical English melody for his opera Anna Bolena, he chose Home, Sweet Home, not knowing that it was not English in origin, but as Italian as his own compositions...
...shaping his character, because he devoted them entirely to reading the classics and to deep meditation. "In 'L'Allegro' and 'II Penseroso', which Milton wrote at this time", the speaker continued, "we see the poet's reaction to the beautiful scenery around him, and the evidences of his lyrical genius. Although these poems may appear dry to us because they have been forced upon us as required reading, to the readers of Milton's time they were filed with wonderful freshness, and still stand out as perfect examples of lyric poetry. In Comus, which Milton wrote next...