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The Five Mystical Songs are a musical composition by English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872–1958), written between 1906 and 1911. [1] The work sets four poems ("Easter" divided into two parts) by seventeenth-century Welsh poet and Anglican priest George Herbert (1593–1633), from his 1633 collection The Temple: Sacred Poems.
George Herbert (3 April 1593 – 1 March 1633) [1] was an English poet, orator, and priest of the Church of England.His poetry is associated with the writings of the metaphysical poets, and he is recognised as "one of the foremost British devotional lyricists."
George Herbert's poem "Easter Wings" printed upright in modern type "Easter Wings" is a religious meditation that focuses on the atonement of Jesus Christ. [ 10 ] Its celebration of bodily and spiritual resurrection draws its theme from 1 Corinthians 15, and it is specially notable that the word ‘victory’ found in the Biblical text is ...
Numerous other poets, including George Herbert, Lewis Carroll, William Blake, Wyndham Lewis, and John Hollander have used the layout of words, letters, and images on the page to create effect in their poems. An analytic reader of poetry must attend to the eye as well as the ear and the mind.
Henry Vaughan was born at Newton by Usk in the Llansantffraed (St. Bridget's) parish of Brecknockshire, the eldest known child of Thomas Vaughan (c. 1586–1658) of Tretower and Denise Jenkin (born c. 1593), the only daughter and heir of David and Gwenllian Morgan of Llansantffraed. [3]
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In 1989, a new version was published with some essays omitted and the remainder of Volumes I-VI consolidated into two volumes. Tovey's Essays were written as introductory notes for the concert-going public and are occasionally light-hearted in tone. Nevertheless, they analyse the pieces and describe their structure in much more depth than ...
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