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British composer Roger Quilter set the poem to music in 1905 in the composition Love's Philosophy, Op. 3, No 1. In 2003, David Gompper set the poem to music in a score for baritone and piano. [3] Choral composer David N. Childs set the poem to music scored for a four-part women's choir and piano. [4]
Oulanem, A Tragedy is a poetic play written by Karl Marx in 1839 during his years as a student, at the age of 21. [1] [2] The action takes place in a mountain town in Italy where a mysterious German stranger, Oulanem, and his companion, Lucindo, arrive. [3] The play was translated into English first by Robert Payne in 1971. [4]
In the play, Socrates appears hanging from a basket, where he delivers oracles such as: I'd never come up with a single thing about celestial phenomena, if I did not suspend my mind up high, to mix my subtle thoughts with what's like them— the air. If I turned my mind to lofty things, but stayed there on the ground, I'd never make the least ...
The directors of the prestigious Book Club of California were impressed by the play Lilith, but not by its first edition, deciding “the printing job was wretched and so full of errors that the Club’s edition was issued to give the dramatic poem a corrected text and a handsome and lasting format.” [18] In 1920, the Club published the first ...
Max Dunn's poem "I Danced Before I had Two Feet" was turned into a song ("I Danced") by the band Violent Femmes; Thrice adapted E.E. Cummings' poem "Since feeling is first" into their song "A Living Dance Upon Dead Minds" William Wordsworth's "Lucy" suite of poems was performed by The Divine Comedy on the album Liberation.
The Cure at Troy: A Version of Sophocles' Philoctetes is a verse adaptation by Seamus Heaney of Sophocles' play Philoctetes. It was first published in 1991. [1] The story comes from one of the myths relating to the Trojan War. It is dedicated in memory of poet and translator Robert Fitzgerald. [2]
Poet Laureate of Kentucky Silas House recites a poem during the second inauguration of Gov. Andy Beshear at the capitol in Frankfort, Ky, December 12, 2023. (Silas Walker/swalker@herald-leader.com)
The Songs of Bilitis (/ b ɪ ˈ l iː t ɪ s /; French: Les Chansons de Bilitis) is a collection of erotic, essentially lesbian, poetry by Pierre Louÿs published in Paris in 1894. . Since Louÿs claimed that he had translated the original poetry from Ancient Greek, this work is considered a pseudotranslation.