Word: dithyrambic
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...verse, Mr. Pulsifer's "Palace of Heart's Desire" is distinctly the best in conception and expression. "The West Today is a dithyramb, and rises at moments to dithyrambic unintelligibility, as in the first line, "Land that the lakes have brided." The lingling anapests of "Morituri Salutamus" seem fitter to "Here's a health to King Charles" than to the bleeding and tearful gladiator. "Jealousy" is an aptly turned conceit in four lines; and "Will of the Wisp" has a good second stanza...