Word: poetic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first of which he was noticeably nervous and therefore inaccurate. The second he played with a real depth of emotion and stylistic discrimination perhaps unexpected of him. In the Chopin number which followed, the Fantasie-Impromptu, a Mazurka, the A Flat Ballade, he again disclosed a wealth of poetic imagination, proving himself a really great Chopin player...
...best translators we have collects his verse. Influence of T. S. Eliot, influence of sonnets, classic and modern, some satire, pleasingly keen, capability, technique, promise, no great originality, a mind that has not quite found itself, a voice a little too fond of the accent of other poetic voices. But still, capability, technique, promise-no more unusual promise than in the case of several others, but indubitably present nevertheless...
FitzGerald gilded Omar Khayyám, and Elihu Vedder's now classic illustrations have regilded FitzGerald. Vedder is academic, imaginative, poetic, and about everything else that he ought to be under the circumstances, except Persian. He is Roman, but not romantic...
...dramatic art, poetic gift, keen insight and subtlely of Moliere are lacking, but Goldoni's place in the history of comedy, if not among the highest is nevertheless secure
...topic sentence and so forth; and to a certain extent an illustration of how stupid the sue of mechanical rules alone can be. The baccalaureate sermon, on the other hand, is replete with dignity and yet grace; while the prophecy of the next hundred years is filled with almost poetic fire. Almost all through the book, except in the inaugural address, there is a lilt to the words that is akin to the Homeric. And throughout there is a vividness of picture and choice of words...