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Wuthering Heights
March 27th, 2010 · No Comments
North
March 27th, 2010 · No Comments
Love
March 27th, 2010 · No Comments
The Passionate Shepherd To His Love
March 27th, 2010 · No Comments
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I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud/Daffodils
March 27th, 2010 · 2 Comments
La Belle Dame sans Merci: A Ballad
March 27th, 2010 · No Comments
She Walks in Beauty
March 27th, 2010 · No Comments
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Complaint of the Absence of Her Lover Being upon the Sea
October 14th, 2007 · 2 Comments
Old editions of poetry books are interesting because they anthologize poems that frequently are omitted from modern editions. Sometimes these poems are better than their successors. Furthermore, in their selections, these musty volumes encapsulate the mood of their times – like old history books, in a way, that tell you more about the time in [...]
Ozymandias
October 2nd, 2007 · No Comments
“Ozymandias” is hands-down the best poem in the English language. Pithy, concise, sardonic, ironic, expressive – whatever your mode of discourse, it’s got it covered. It therefore was a natural for the “Tyger and Other Tales” project. The arrangement is supposed to be evocative, suggesting a desert caravan at first, but struggling and then surging [...]
The Lady of Shalott
June 3rd, 2007 · 1 Comment
“The Lady of Shalott” is a Victorian poem by the English poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892). It recasts Arthurian subject matter, loosely based on medieval sources, and takes up themes that would become more fully realized in “Idylls of the King” (Wikipedia). I was mesmerized by this poem back in high school (circa 1968-1970), and [...]
Tyger
April 6th, 2007 · 5 Comments
Back when I was in high school, I had an idea, which was to take some English romantic poetry, and set it to music. Yes, we were so much younger then. I worked the whole thing up, but then, due to the pressures of other events, set it aside. My daughter Lauren avows the only [...]
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