The Penguin Book of English Song

The Penguin Book of English Song
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Publisher : Penguin UK
Total Pages : 2277
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ISBN-10 : 9780141982557
ISBN-13 : 0141982551
Rating : 4/5 (57 Downloads)

Synopsis The Penguin Book of English Song by : Richard Stokes

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.

Poems Seven

Poems Seven
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Publisher : Seven Stories Press
Total Pages : 452
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781609800239
ISBN-13 : 1609800230
Rating : 4/5 (39 Downloads)

Synopsis Poems Seven by : Alan Dugan

Poems Seven: New and Complete Poetry, the winner of the National Book Award, presents the life work of a giant of American letters, tracks a forty-year career of honest, tough artistry, and shows a man at nearly 80 years of age and still at the height of his poetic power. Dugan’s new poems continue his career-long concerns with renewed vigor: the poet’s insistence that art is a grounded practice threatened by pretension, the wry wit, the jibes at the academic and sententious, and the arresting observations on the quotidian battles of life. All the while he peppers his poems with humorous images of the grim and daunting topics of existential emptiness.

Songs to Seven Strings

Songs to Seven Strings
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 271
Release :
ISBN-10 : 0253061474
ISBN-13 : 9780253061478
Rating : 4/5 (74 Downloads)

Synopsis Songs to Seven Strings by : Gerald Stanton Smith

Music and Other Poems

Music and Other Poems
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Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages : 82
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9783732622764
ISBN-13 : 3732622762
Rating : 4/5 (64 Downloads)

Synopsis Music and Other Poems by : Henry Van Dyke

Reproduction of the original.

The Song of the Bell and Other Poems

The Song of the Bell and Other Poems
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 122
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ISBN-10 : OXFORD:N11187984
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (84 Downloads)

Synopsis The Song of the Bell and Other Poems by : Friedrich Schiller

Songs of Unreason

Songs of Unreason
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Publisher : Copper Canyon Press
Total Pages : 158
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781619320383
ISBN-13 : 161932038X
Rating : 4/5 (83 Downloads)

Synopsis Songs of Unreason by : Jim Harrison

One of America's leading novelists and poets, "Jim Harrison is a writer with immortality in him."-The Sunday Times

Seven Notebooks

Seven Notebooks
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Publisher : Harper Collins
Total Pages : 269
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780061751516
ISBN-13 : 0061751510
Rating : 4/5 (16 Downloads)

Synopsis Seven Notebooks by : Campbell McGrath

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

Song of the World Becoming
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 560
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015053159615
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (15 Downloads)

Synopsis Song of the World Becoming by : Pattiann Rogers

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".