The Quiet Sea & A Fortunate Voyage by Johann Wolfgang Goethe
The Quiet Sea Deep silence rules the paling waters— The pristine seas are soundless. Meanwhile a boatman looks on and shivers As he...
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By David B. Gosselin
- Nov 19, 2018
- 3 min
Beyond the Lines: Edgar Poe's "El Dorado"
"Just as the lily is repeated in the lake, or the eyes of Amaryllis in the mirror, so is the mere oral or written repetition of these...
By David B. Gosselin
- Nov 10, 2018
- 30 min
Profiles in Poetry: Friedrich Schiller
“Trust me, the fountain of youth, it is no fable. It is running Truly and always. Ye ask, where? In poetical art.” - Friedrich Schiller,...
By Fred Haight
- Nov 3, 2018
- 1 min
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...
Translation
- 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...
By Daniel Leach
- Oct 22, 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...
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...
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