How might we revisit the connection between individualistic
lyricism and revolutionary romanticism, generally treated as disconnected in discourse on the May Fourth movement and revolutionary literature?
Rogister remarkably clear orchestral textures never detracted from the nervy, frenzied
lyricism of the Schoen-berg or the fervid, brooding expression of the Bartok.
Painfully vulnerable in an industry that punishes such, Laveaux delivers a
lyricism and playing that display a complexity belying her youth and an optimism in the face of despair and uncertainty that seems strictly the domain of the young.
90 emerged clearly as the crossroads in Beethoven's pianistic output, the composer bidding a lovely farewell to the finale's song-like
lyricism and opting for the fragmentary, questing sound-world of the opening movement.
More impressive than the plot is the flowing and elegant
lyricism of Diamant's prose.
Inspired by the life and work of Russian poet Joseph Brodsky, Darren Almond's recent exhibition was a study in strategic contrasts, an orchestrated dialogue between beauty and decay designed to evoke both the
lyricism and the melancholy characteristic of the late Nobel Prize-winner's artistic outlook.
The accompanying texts trope the graphic technique, opening with opinion masquerading as fact: ('The time has come for the
lyricism of control, for calm as an ideal, for bringing the Virgilian dream, the peace of the countryside enjoyed with the self-consciousness of the city-dweller, into the notion of the city itself') before describing what they found and what they did.
The Antidote is a return to form, as sultry singer Skye Edwards is traded in for feistier Daisy Martey, and the songs here are by far the best they've made in a decade, with catchy hooks and thoughtful
lyricism matching the bright, eager sound
Like the best singer-songwriters, David Wilcox blends soft jazz and folk sensibilities with poetic
lyricism and a warm vocal tone.
A newcomer to fiction, Story writes with the plot-twisting precision of a veteran and a
lyricism reminiscent of James Baldwin's novel-turned-serenade Sonny's Blues.
When it was released in the US in 1984 the novel, set in Czechoslovakia at the time of the Soviet invasion, was hailed as an instant classic with Newsweek magazine praising its 'dreamlike
lyricism and emotional intensity.'
Let me conclude with a quotation which will allow the reader to judge the strengths of this book: the roots of La Fontaine's Fables "fed on everything germinal and vital in the literature of Old France: Roman poetry, medieval romances and fables, the Renaissance of Rome and Touraine, the cultured Catholicism of Francis of Sales and Port-Royal, liberal and humanistic Calvinism, Cornellian generosity, the libertinage of skeptical and Epicurean scholars, the poets'
lyricism and science of form, in short everything that could nurture man's knowledge of himself and free him from the power of darkness within himself" (348).
A master of classical art, he painted the poor, whose ordinary activities he imbued with melancholy and
lyricism (blue period, rose period).
