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"Ten Blake Songs" are poems from Blake's "Songs of Innocence and of Experience" and "Auguries of Innocence", set to music by Ralph Vaughan Williams in 1957. "Tyger" is both the name of an album by Tangerine Dream, which is based on Blake's poetry, and the title of a song on this album based on the poem of the same name.
Pages in category "Songs based on poems" The following 126 pages are in this category, out of 126 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
Lemminkäinen Suite (also known as Four Legends from the Kalevala), Op. 22 * [a cycle of four tone poems] Lemminkäinen and the Maidens of the Island (1895, revised 1897 and 1939) * The Swan of Tuonela (1893-1895, revised 1897 and 1900) *
Smithsonian Global Sound: The Music of Poetry—audio samples of poems, hymns and songs in ballad meter. The Oxford Book of Ballads, complete 1910 book by Arthur Quiller-Couch; English Broadside Ballad Archive—an archive of images and recordings of over 4,000 pre-1700 broadside ballads; A Book of Old English Ballads public domain audiobook at ...
McKuen's poems were translated into eleven languages and his books sold over 1 million copies in 1968 alone. [14] McKuen said that his most romantic poetry was influenced by American poet Walter Benton's two books of poems. [13] McKuen sold over 60 million books worldwide, according to the Associated Press. [1]
Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images Before The Tortured Poets Department was ever a glimmer in Taylor Swift’s eye, the singer peppered her music with references to classic literature. As early as 2006 ...
At least 55 composers in the United States set the poem "In Flanders Fields" to music by 1920, including Charles Ives, Arthur Foote, and John Philip Sousa. [31] The setting by Ives, which premiered in early 1917, is perhaps the earliest American setting. [32] Fussell criticized the poem in his work The Great War and Modern Memory (1975). [25]
Visual poetry through music. Daron James. January 8, 2025 at 3:00 AM.