A Recitation of John Keats' Poetry; a Lecture on the Origin of Language and Music
By Fred Haight This video discusses the origin of language in classical poetry rather than prose, the birth of both music and poetry from...
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- Oct 30, 2018
- 2 min
The Treasure Seeker (1797) by Johannes Goethe
With an empty purse and a heavy heart I lugged myself through the dreary days. Poverty knows this life’s lowly ways, But gold can bring...
By David B. Gosselin
- Oct 29, 2018
- 32 min
Why John Keats Is Not a Romantic
While most professors and critics place John Keats in the same category of poets as Romantics like Lord Byron, William Wordsworth and...
Original Translation
- Oct 22, 2018
- 2 min
Beautiful New Rose by Guido Cavalcanti
Beautiful new rose, Precious renewer, By field and river I’ll happily sing Your every blessing - to the blooming verdure. Your sacred...
Original Translation
- Oct 15, 2018
- 1 min
Death and the Maiden
Maiden Away! Away from me fiend! Off you bare-skulled savage! I’m still young, with long to live! Away! And leave me be. Death Lend me...
By David B. Gosselin
- Oct 11, 2018
- 4 min
Beyond the Lines: Lerchengesang
We are inaugurating a new series, aimed at taking a different poem on each occasion and analyzing it from the standpoint of how a great...
Original Translation
- Oct 10, 2018
- 5 min
15th and 16th Century Spanish Love Poems from Schumann's "Spanische Liebeslieder"
Discover the true magic of these poems: read along as you listen to the settings of Robert Schumann's Spanische Liebeslieder cycle found...
By Michael R. Burch
- Oct 8, 2018
- 1 min
Observance
Here the hills are old and rolling carefully in their old age; on the horizon youthful mountains bathe themselves in windblown fountains...
Translation
- Oct 4, 2018
- 1 min
"Lerchengesang" (Lark Song) Set by Brahms
Ethereal, distant voices, Heavenly greetings of larks, How sweetly you move men's hearts With your enchanting voices. As my eyes begin...
Translation
- Oct 3, 2018
- 1 min
The Fishergirl by Heinrich Heine
Come you lovely fisher girl, Come and bring your boat to land; Join me on the golden shore, We'll cuddle hand in hand. Lay your head on...
By Daniel Leach
- Oct 1, 2018
- 1 min
Late Afternoon
My spirit is lost in the late afternoon, As it drifts with the shadows that float in the air; It lives in the moment that dies all too...