Author: Sappho Sappho
Publisher: Createspace Independent Pub
ISBN: 9781480094994
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 68
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The ancient world revered Sappho's poetry. Today, her work survives only in fragments. Canada's poet laureate, Bliss Carman loved those fragments. In the late Victorian Era, Carman cemented together Sappho's verses with his own poetry. The result is a sensual, musical, erotic and ravishing literary mosaic.
Author: Kate Kennedy
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691218552
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 512
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The first comprehensive biography of an extraordinary English poet and composer whose life was haunted by fighting in the First World War and, later, confinement in a mental asylum Ivor Gurney (1890–1937) wrote some of the most anthologized poems of the First World War and composed some of the greatest works in the English song repertoire, such as “Sleep.” Yet his life was shadowed by the trauma of the war and mental illness, and he spent his last fifteen years confined to a mental asylum. In Dweller in Shadows, Kate Kennedy presents the first comprehensive biography of this extraordinary and misunderstood artist. A promising student at the Royal College of Music, Gurney enlisted as a private with the Gloucestershire regiment in 1915 and spent two years in the trenches of the Western Front. Wounded in the arm and subsequently gassed during the Battle of Passchendaele, Gurney was recovering in hospital when his first collection of poems, Severn and Somme, was published. Despite episodes of depression, he resumed his music studies after the war until he was committed to an asylum in 1922. At times believing he was Shakespeare and that the “machines under the floor” were torturing him, he nevertheless continued to write and compose, leaving behind a vast body of unpublished work when he died of tuberculosis. Drawing on extensive archival research and spanning literary criticism, history, psychiatry and musicology, this compelling narrative sets Gurney’s life and work against the backdrop of the war and his institutionalisation, probing the links between madness, suffering and creativity. Facing death in the trenches, Gurney hoped that history might not “forget me quite.” This definitive account of his life and work helps ensure that he will indeed be remembered.
Author: Danielle Sainte-Marie
Publisher: Danielle Sainte-Marie
ISBN: 0557321468
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 73
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A Glimpse to Open spans 33 years of poetry in the life of American (but Norman-French by lineage), lesbian poetess and writer Danielle Sainte-Marie. It is a book meant to help open a reader to what it is like to live poetically; it is a glimpse of actively seeking and/or serendipitously finding, the mystical experience of being human. Filled with poetry, quotes she has written throughout her amazing life and even an essay on what poetry means to her, A Glimpse to Open is truly a book worth living with for many, many years.As she once remarked, "When one has mystical experience, one no longer needs faith in the mystical."
Author: W. L. George
Publisher: New York : Harper & brothers
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Category : Women
Languages : en
Pages : 264
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 646
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1582
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 988
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Author: Sandra M. Gilbert
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300050257
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 482
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V.1 the war of the words. V.2 sexchanges.
Author: Bliss Carman
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Category : Canadian poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 76
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Author: Shirlee Emmons
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199882304
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 522
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Singers are faced with a unique challenge among musicians: they must express not just the music, but the lyrics too. To effectively communicate the meaning behind these words, singers must understand the many references embedded in the vast international repertoire of great art songs. They must deal with the meaning of the lyrics, frequently in a language not their own and of a culture unfamiliar to them. From Zelter and Schubert to Rorem and Musto, Researching the Song serves as an invaluable guide for performers, teachers, and enthusiasts to the art song repertoire. Its more than 2,000 carefully researched entries supply information on most of the mythological, historical, geographical, and literary references contained in western art song. The authors explain the meaning of less familiar literary terms, figures, and authors referenced in song while placing songs in the context of larger literary sources. Readers will find entries dealing with art songs from the German, French, Italian, Russian, Spanish, South American, Greek, Finnish, Scandinavian, and both American and British English repertoires. Sources, narratives, and explanations of major song cycles are also given. Organized alphabetically, the lexicon includes brief biographies of poets, lists of composers who set each poet's work, bibliographic materials, and brief synopses of major works from which song texts were taken, including the plots of all Restoration theater works containing Purcell's vocal music. The more performers know and understand the literary elements of a song, the richer their communication will be. Researching the Song is a vital aid for singers and teachers in interpreting art songs and building song recital programs.
