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"How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix" is a poem by Robert Browning published in Dramatic Romances and Lyrics, 1845. [1] The poem, one of the volume's "dramatic romances", is a first-person narrative told, in breathless galloping meter, by one of three riders; the midnight errand is urgent—"the news which alone could save Aix from her fate"—although the nature of that good news ...
'How they brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix' (16--) Pictor Ignotus (Florence, 15--) Italy in England; England in Italy (Piano di Sorrento) The Lost Leader; The Lost Mistress; Home-Thoughts, from Abroad; The Tomb at St. Praxed's (Rome, 15--) Garden Fancies I. The Flower's Name; II. Sibrandus Schafnaburgensis; France and Spain I. The ...
In the recording, which still exists, Browning recites part of How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix (and can be heard apologising when he forgets the words). [33] When the recording was played in 1890 on the anniversary of his death, at a gathering of his admirers, it was said to be the first time anyone's voice "had been heard from ...
Robert Browning, Dramatic Romances and Lyrics, (Volume 7 of Bells and Pomegranates [2]) including "How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix", [4] ...
"Good speed !" cried the watch, as the gate-bolts undrew; "Speed!" echoed the wall to us galloping through; Behind shut the postern, the lights sank to rest, And into the midnight we gallop'd abreast. (Robert Browning, How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix, 1-6)
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A move should be requested, to How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix>--Wetman 18:05, 10 April 2014 (UTC) A good point -- for some reason I never noted the odd capitalization on this article even though it was on my watchlist. I put in a move request and it was promptly honored by DGG, so here we are now at the new name!
The Adoration of the Mystic Lamb, painted by the brothers Jan and Hubert Van Eyck, was unveiled on Thursday in its new temperature-controlled case at the Cathedral of Saint Bavo in Ghent, for ...