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The 1805 Prelude, which was found and printed by Ernest de Sélincourt in 1926, in 13 books. The 1850 Prelude , published shortly after Wordsworth's death, in 14 books. The Prelude was the product of a lifetime: for the last part of his life Wordsworth had been "polishing the style and qualifying some of its radical statements about the divine ...
July – William Wordsworth's The Prelude; or, Growth of a Poet's Mind: An Autobiographical Poem, on which he has worked since 1798, is first published about three months after his death by Edward Moxon in London in 14 books, with the title supplied by the poet's widow, Mary. [6]
The prelude's title refers to the protagonist of Charles Dickens' The Pickwick Papers – P.P.M.P.C. stands for "Perpetual President Member of the Pickwick Club". The piece is characteristic for its eccentric shifts in expression and often melancholy or sentimental tone.
The title of the piece was inspired by "The Garden of Paradise", a fairy tale [1] by Hans Christian Andersen that was translated into French and published in 1907.[2]: 194 Debussy was known to have an affinity towards Andersen's stories, and it has been theorized that the author's character Zephyr – the West Wind – would have "appealed" to the composer when he was writing the prelude.
The Guns of Navarone is a 1957 novel about the Second World War by Scottish writer Alistair MacLean that was made into the film The Guns of Navarone in 1961. The story concerns the efforts of an Allied commando team to destroy a seemingly impregnable German fortress that threatens Allied naval ships in the Aegean Sea and prevents over 1,200 isolated British Army soldiers from being rescued.
"The Prelude" — Rach§ Prelude in C♯ minor, op. 3, no. 2 Text by Dave Malloy "Fate" from 12 Songs, op. 21, no. 1†§ suggested by Beethoven's Symphony no. 5, op. 67 Lyrics by Aleksy Apukthin "The First Symphony" — Rach, Chaliapin, Natalya, Glazunov, Dahl Suggested by Rachmaninoff’s Symphony no. 1; Symphony no. 6 in F major, op. 68, 2nd ...
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LibriVox reading in French. Le Bateau ivre (The Drunken Boat) is a Symbolist poem written in the summer of 1871 by French poet Arthur Rimbaud, then aged sixteen.The poem, one-hundred lines long, with four alexandrines per each of its twenty-five quatrains, describes the drifting and sinking of a boat lost at sea in a fragmented first-person narrative saturated with vivid imagery and symbolism. [1]