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"Ah! Sun-flower " is an illustrated poem written by the English poet, painter and printmaker William Blake . It was published as part of his collection Songs of Experience in 1794 (no.43 in the sequence of the combined book, Songs of Innocence and of Experience ).
The Fugs First Album is the 1965 debut album by American rock band the Fugs, described in their AllMusic profile as "arguably the first underground rock group of all time". [3]
The album does include one English song, "Sunflower", which is a setting of William Blake's poem "Ah! Sunflower". The same song is performed in French ("Ah tournesol"), as a straight translation of the original. Blake's poem is not acknowledged in the credits for either song.
Copy F of the Lilly, below the "My Pretty Rose Tree" and "Ah! Sunflower" in Songs of Experience. This copy of the poem is currently held by the Yale Center for British Art [1] "The Lilly" is a poem written by the English poet William Blake. It was published as part of his collection Songs of Experience in 1794.
"Sunflower Sutra" is an account of a sojourn with Jack Kerouac in a railroad yard, the discovery of a sunflower covered in dirt and soot from the railroad yard, and the subsequent revelation that this is a metaphor for all humanity: "we are not our skin of grime."
A short film, Ah, Sunflower, directed by Robert Klinkert and Iain Sinclair, and featuring Laing, Ginsberg, Carmichael and others, was filmed around the conference. [12] [13] [14] The film was the subject of Sinclair's first (self-published) book, The Kodak Mantra Diaries. The film was re-released by Beat Scene Press of Coventry in 2007. [14]
Ten Blake Songs is a song cycle for tenor or soprano voice and oboe composed over the Christmas period of 1957 by Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872–1958), for the 1958 film The Vision of William Blake by Guy Brenton for Morse Films. [1]
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