Word: stylistic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...poet's poet, though, Pushkin is still very special and-in translation-frustrating. His verse is elusively simple, unadorned by such easily translatable characteristics as splashy imagery or intellectual abstractions. Its strength lies rather in subtly suggestive tones and rhythms. No less a language snob and stylist than Vladimir Nabokov labored on and off for almost a decade to translate Pushkin's acknowledged masterpiece, the verse novel Eugene Onegin. Nabokov's rendering of this romantic (and mock romantic) panorama of Russian society was brilliant; yet even he decided to settle for strict literalism rather than attempt...
...were O'Neill's tormentors? His family, says Louis Sheaffer in the first book of his two-volume biography. Sheaffer suggests that O'Neill might have been "perhaps no writer at all, had he had a more stable and reassuring childhood." Even less a stylist than his subject. Sheaffer, a former newspaper reporter, does little more than lean over the playwright's shoulder, tirelessly paraphrasing what O'Neill wrote in his most autobiographical play and his one masterpiece, Long Day's Journey Into Night: "I will always be a stranger who never feels...
...without ever losing the shimmering roundness of his tone. In the Chopin, he adheres to the composer's theory that the melodic line should bend gracefully but never at the cost of a steady rhythmic pulse. Weissenberg's long sabbatical has transformed him into a superb Romantic stylist...
Hammond has a rich, resonant barritone that isn't always at home with his material. About half of his songs have more emotional meat than nearly any stylist can handle, and even this Dudley House gentleman cannot always get to the heart of the matter. At times he tends to be stiff in voice and movement; I wish he would let himself go more than he does. He obviously loves his stuff, and he would do his audience a favor by sharing this love more. Still, I'd walk a mile just to hear some of his tunes on Muzak...
...Even were Graham alive, he would most probably not tell. He delighted in shrouding his life and art in mystery. Nor is the rediscovery of John Graham based on any reassessment of his artistic ability. He remains, at best, only a fair draftsman and a thoroughly pedestrian stylist. Nonetheless, his wild-eyed subjects possess considerable appeal for the public that has recently developed an interest in astrology, numerology and other forms of mysticism. Graham, who thought of himself as an eccentric loner, often said that his work was not intended to be beautiful, but to convey information about the occult...