Word: lyricist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Reporters rushed to see Bert Brecht, lyricist of Happy End, found him complacently reading a pile of press notices. Said...
...composer and lyricist could have presented a happier and more seasonable combination than the delightful Victorian couple. The flowers that bloom in the spring, tra-la, are perfect in themselves, but when they are sung to Sir Arthur's music the result is the incomparable gaiety and freshness of a season that, alas, seems all too tardy in arriving--which reminds one that The Mikado is still wandering somewhere between New York and Boston, and that Spring is unofficial until Winthrop Ames has sent his latest revival to lead those bored with sophistication to the Plymouth...
...shot in the back, at last, while in the act of straightening a motto on the wall, by a man who. had been his friend but yielded to the temptation of a $10,000 reward set by the State of Missouri for Jesse's capture or extermination. A lyricist of the day wrote: Why did they kill him thus so sudden? Why pin on him Death's awful lance? Why pluck the flower just in its budding? Why didn't they give poor Jesse a chance...
John Freeman, copious and intricate lyricist, won with his "Poems New and Old" the Hawthornden Prize for 1920. He is a rare poet, and aloof poet, and it is not surprising that he is so little known in this country. His poems are often involved, often difficult, and often demand a re-reading. But his work has nearly always subtle turns of thought and touches of startling beauty. Few poets have his wonderful, uncanny feeling about trees...