In an article on Squire Power, recently written by his great-granddaughter, p110 Virginia Reilly Glore (actress and dramatic reader), we read that "Illinois had been a state just three years when young George Power came to Sangamon County.
"The teacher was such a dramatic reader and actress.
His aunt, activist and dramatic reader Emily Faithfull, helped him to make his first connections in the theatre.
He was a musical, dramatic, moving reader of his own poetry, and, when he had the chance, he liked to read aloud the poetry of others: John Clare and Keats especially, and Whitman, and once I had the pleasure of hearing him read to an audience one of my own poems, which was — there's no other word for it — thrilling.
He was a musical, dramatic, moving reader of his own poetry, and, when he had the chance, he liked to read aloud the poetry of others: John Clare and Keats especially, and Whitman, and once I had the pleasure of hearing him read to an audience one of my own poems, which was there's no other word for it thrilling.
For those who think of cinema as dramatic roughage, "The Reader" should prove sufficiently indigestible.
On the other hand, Rosie's Walk by Pat Hutchins works brilliantly by setting uneventful text (and very few words) against dramatic images; the reader sees all the dangers to which Rosie the hen is oblivious.
His "Ukraine Diaries" contain his daily observations from November until April by which time the Kremlin had annexed Crimea, and Ukrainian troops were engaging Russian proxies in the east.One bonus of the diary form is dramatic irony: the reader, unlike the diarist, knows what will happen next.
In Ison's poetic depiction, Rockaway is equal parts tourist trap and salt-sprayed idyll, where beachgoers frolic in the shadow of some potent dramatic irony: the reader's awareness of the devastation soon to arrive across the river makes for an unsettling countdown.
She also alludes to the cession of Surinam to the Dutch - Oroonoko's story takes place entirely within a recognisable historical context - but Oroonoko remains a romantic hero; his uniqueness is too great and his fate too dramatic for the reader to feel that she comes to know or understand him.
I wanted to make sure it's as dramatic to a reader as it was to me in my imagination.
