Author: Gerald Stanton Smith
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780253061478
Category : Popular culture
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
Songs to Seven Strings
Author: Gerald Stanton Smith
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780253061478
Category : Popular culture
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780253061478
Category : Popular culture
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
The Penguin Book of English Song
Author: Richard Stokes
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141982551
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 2277
Book Description
The Penguin Book of English Song anthologizes the work of 100 English poets who have inspired a host of different composers (some English, some not) to write vocal music. Each of the chapters, arranged chronologically from Chaucer to Auden, opens with a precis of the poet's life, work and, often, approach to music. Richard Stokes's notes and commentaries constantly illuminate the language and themes of the poems and their settings in unexpected ways. An awareness of how Ben Jonson based his famous poem 'Drinke to me, onely, with thine eyes' on a Greek original, for example, increases our enjoyment of both the poem and the traditional song; knowledge of Thomas Hardy's relationships with women deepens our appreciation of songs by Ireland, Finzi, Britten and others; Charles Dibdin's 'Tom Bowling', played each year at the Last Night of the Proms, takes on a deeper resonance when we know that it was written after the death of his brother Tom, a sea captain struck by lightning in the Indian Ocean. Many composers of different nationalities appear, but the book remains quintessentially British, and includes pieces that have an established place in our national consciousness: 'Rule, Britannia' (James Thomson), 'Abide with me' (Henry Francis Lyte), 'Auld lang syne' (Robert Burns), 'Jerusalem' (William Blake), 'Once in royal David's city' (Mrs C. F. Alexander), and even 'Twinkle, twinkle, little star' (Jane Taylor). The poems are printed in their original versification and spelling, enabling us to trace the development of the English language as the book progresses. The volume presents a huge amount of information about English Song that will enlighten all those who delight in the fusion of words and music. The presence of minor as well as major poets and the unique principle of selection make The Penguin Book of English Song a highly original anthology of English verse.
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141982551
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 2277
Book Description
The Penguin Book of English Song anthologizes the work of 100 English poets who have inspired a host of different composers (some English, some not) to write vocal music. Each of the chapters, arranged chronologically from Chaucer to Auden, opens with a precis of the poet's life, work and, often, approach to music. Richard Stokes's notes and commentaries constantly illuminate the language and themes of the poems and their settings in unexpected ways. An awareness of how Ben Jonson based his famous poem 'Drinke to me, onely, with thine eyes' on a Greek original, for example, increases our enjoyment of both the poem and the traditional song; knowledge of Thomas Hardy's relationships with women deepens our appreciation of songs by Ireland, Finzi, Britten and others; Charles Dibdin's 'Tom Bowling', played each year at the Last Night of the Proms, takes on a deeper resonance when we know that it was written after the death of his brother Tom, a sea captain struck by lightning in the Indian Ocean. Many composers of different nationalities appear, but the book remains quintessentially British, and includes pieces that have an established place in our national consciousness: 'Rule, Britannia' (James Thomson), 'Abide with me' (Henry Francis Lyte), 'Auld lang syne' (Robert Burns), 'Jerusalem' (William Blake), 'Once in royal David's city' (Mrs C. F. Alexander), and even 'Twinkle, twinkle, little star' (Jane Taylor). The poems are printed in their original versification and spelling, enabling us to trace the development of the English language as the book progresses. The volume presents a huge amount of information about English Song that will enlighten all those who delight in the fusion of words and music. The presence of minor as well as major poets and the unique principle of selection make The Penguin Book of English Song a highly original anthology of English verse.
Music and Other Poems
Author: Henry Van Dyke
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3732622762
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
Reproduction of the original.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3732622762
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
Reproduction of the original.
Poetical Works, Including The Shepherd Lady and Other Poems
Author: Jean Ingelow
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 548
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 548
Book Description
The Song of the Bell and Other Poems
Author: Friedrich Schiller
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
Seven Notebooks
Author: Campbell McGrath
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061751510
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 269
Book Description
An ant to the stars or stars to the ant—which is more irrelevant? Weekend Jet Skiers— rude to call them idiots, yes, but facts are facts. Clamor of seabirds as the sun falls—I look up and ten years have passed." —from "Dawn Notebook" Such is the expansive terrain of Seven Notebooks: the world as it is seen, known, imagined, and dreamed; our lives as they are felt, thought, desired, and lived. Written in forms that range from haiku to prose, and in a voice that veers from incantatory to deadpan, these seven poetic sequences offer diverse reflections on language and poetry, time and consciousness, civilization and art—to say nothing of bureaucrats, surfboards, and blue margaritas. Taken collectively, Seven Notebooks composes a season-by-season account of a year in the life of its narrator, from spring in Chicago to summer at the Jersey Shore to winter in Miami Beach. Not a novel in verse, not a poetic journal, but a lyric chronicle, this utterly unique book reclaims territory long abandoned by American poetry, a characteristic ambition of Campbell McGrath, one of the most honored, accessible, and humanistically engaged writers of our time.
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061751510
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 269
Book Description
An ant to the stars or stars to the ant—which is more irrelevant? Weekend Jet Skiers— rude to call them idiots, yes, but facts are facts. Clamor of seabirds as the sun falls—I look up and ten years have passed." —from "Dawn Notebook" Such is the expansive terrain of Seven Notebooks: the world as it is seen, known, imagined, and dreamed; our lives as they are felt, thought, desired, and lived. Written in forms that range from haiku to prose, and in a voice that veers from incantatory to deadpan, these seven poetic sequences offer diverse reflections on language and poetry, time and consciousness, civilization and art—to say nothing of bureaucrats, surfboards, and blue margaritas. Taken collectively, Seven Notebooks composes a season-by-season account of a year in the life of its narrator, from spring in Chicago to summer at the Jersey Shore to winter in Miami Beach. Not a novel in verse, not a poetic journal, but a lyric chronicle, this utterly unique book reclaims territory long abandoned by American poetry, a characteristic ambition of Campbell McGrath, one of the most honored, accessible, and humanistically engaged writers of our time.
Song of the World Becoming
Author: Pattiann Rogers
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
This book collects all of Pattiann Rogers's published work, plus 40 new poems. Her subject matter is at once broad -- defining divinity, achieving serenity -- and specific, as she sees with a keen eye "the neon needle of a damsel fly hovering and vanishing".
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
This book collects all of Pattiann Rogers's published work, plus 40 new poems. Her subject matter is at once broad -- defining divinity, achieving serenity -- and specific, as she sees with a keen eye "the neon needle of a damsel fly hovering and vanishing".
Songs of Unreason
Author: Jim Harrison
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
ISBN: 161932038X
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
One of America's leading novelists and poets, "Jim Harrison is a writer with immortality in him."-The Sunday Times
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
ISBN: 161932038X
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
One of America's leading novelists and poets, "Jim Harrison is a writer with immortality in him."-The Sunday Times
The Song of the Bell; and Other Poems; Translated from the German [by M. M., I.e. M. Montagu].
Author: Friedrich Schiller
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
Songs of Innocence
Author: William Blake
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Illumination of books and manuscripts
Languages : en
Pages : 35
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Illumination of books and manuscripts
Languages : en
Pages : 35
Book Description