poetic freedom

His two Armory recitals exhibited pianism of poetic freedom, assured interpretive choices and a D.J.’s ear for subtle musical connections.

“Ask Your Mama: 12 Moods for Jazz,” Hughes’s book-length poem, published by Knopf, in 1962, with musical cues throughout and also liner notes, epitomizes his embrace of a new poetic freedom and a continuing respect for improvisation in art.

No doubt the attraction of the stage to young persons of a vulgar character is merely the brilliancy of its trappings; but to Wilhelm, as to Gœthe, it was this poetic freedom and daily suggestion which seemed likely to offer such an agreeable studio in the greenroom.

In order to understand in any degree his eccentricities and his poetic freedom, one must go to the poems and read them as a whole.

More of poetic freedom might have been wished, in the decorative treatment of the person—a touch of wildness in the hair, a tinge of imaginative exaltation in the countenance, an air of mischance in the gashes of combat.