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The fifteen-CD boxed set [4] spans 556 tracks in over twelve hours of oral performance by the poet (some poems span multiple tracks). The entire work was also released on one disc in MP3 format. All of Heaney's poetry collections are performed except his final one, Human Chain, which was published in the following year. The poems are presented ...
In rhetoric, epizeuxis, also known as palilogia, is the repetition of a word or phrase in immediate succession, typically within the same sentence, for vehemence or emphasis. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] A closely related rhetorical device is diacope , which involves word repetition that is broken up by a single intervening word, or a small number of ...
Arthur William Edgar O'Shaughnessy (14 March 1844 – 30 January 1881) was a British poet and herpetologist. [1] Of Irish descent, he was born in London. [2] He is most remembered for his poem "Ode", from his 1874 collection Music and Moonlight, which begins with the words "We are the music makers, / And we are the dreamers of dreams", and which has been set to music by several composers ...
The Poetry Archive was founded by recording producer Richard Carrington and poet Andrew Motion, during his appointment as UK Poet Laureate in 1999 and is now led by Director Tracey Guiry. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Recordings of contemporary work began in 2000 and the first website went live in 2005.
The last line of the prepared address echoes the second and third lines of the poem. [2] [3] The same lines were also used in the lyrics of Pink Floyd's "The Gunner's Dream" (1983, on The Final Cut) [4] and Al Stewart's "Somewhere in England 1915" (2005, on A Beach Full of Shells). The poem is read in its entirety in films Oh!
Satires of Circumstance is a collection of poems by English poet Thomas Hardy, and was published in 1914.It includes the 18 poem sequence Poems 1912-13 on the death of Hardy's wife Emma - extended to the now-classic 21 poems in Collected Poems of 1919 - widely regarded to comprise the best work of his poetic career.
Causley at The Poetry Archive, profile and poems written and audio. Critical essay by Dana Gioia The Most Unfashionable Poet Alive; Wendy Trewin, Obituary from The Guardian, 6 November 2003; Susan Hill, "Joking apart", The Guardian, 15 November 2003 ("Susan Hill celebrates the poetry of Charles Causley - Cornishman and friend")
Pines of Rome (Italian: Pini di Roma), P 141, is a tone poem in four movements for orchestra completed in 1924 by the Italian composer Ottorino Respighi.It is the second of his three tone poems about Rome, following Fontane di Roma (1916) and preceding Feste Romane (1928).