Author: Stopford Augustus BrookePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 640
Book Description
A Treasury of Irish Poetry in the English Tongue
Author: Stopford Augustus BrookePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 640
Book Description
Dear Harp of My Country
Author: James W. FlanneryPublisher: J. S. Sanders
ISBN:
Category : Folk music
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
Best friend to Lord Byron; famous throughout Europe and America as a poet, composer, singer, wit, and polemicist; Thomas Moore (1779-1852) was the embodiment of Romanticism. It is said he was often moved to tears by his own songs, and so were his audiences. Servants lined up behind closed doors to hear him; women swooned, wrote him notes in verse, and treasured locks of his hair. The first in a long line of Irish poet-performers who combined personal expression with a zeal for political and social reform, Moore formed a vital link between the old Gaelic bardic tradition -- nearly extinct in his day -- and the popular songs in English that fueled the flames of nationalism in early nineteenth century Ireland.Including Moore's lyrics to accompany the songs recorded here, James Flannery's book is part biography, part music history, and part history of a nation. It presents the story of Thomas Moore in the context of the Irish nationalist movement and explains the lasting influence the songs of Moore have had on the lives of countless millions of Irish emigrants, who found in them a symbolic link with their homeland.
The Word on the Street
Author: Paul MuldoonPublisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 1466879815
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 91
Book Description
A vibrant new collection of poems—that also double as rock songs—from the Pulitzer Prize–winning poet In his new book of rock lyrics, Paul Muldoon goes back to the essential meaning of the term "lyric"—a short poem sung to the accompaniment of a musical instrument. These words are written for music most assuredly, with half an ear to Yeats's ballad-singing porter drinkers and half to Cole Porter—and indeed, many of them double as rock songs, performed by Wayside Shrines, the Princeton-based music collective of which Muldoon is a member. Their themes are the classic themes of song: lost love, lost wars, Charlton Heston, barbed wire, pole dancers, cellulite, Hegel, elephants, Oedipus, more barbed wire, Buddy Holly, Jersey peaches, Julius Caesar, Trenton, cockatoos, and the Youngers (Bob and John and Jim and Cole). The Word on the Street is a lively addition to this Pulitzer Prize–winning poet's masterful body of work. It demonstrates, once again, that, as Richard Eder has written in the pages of The New York Times Book Review, "Paul Muldoon is a shape-shifting Proteus to readers who try to pin him down . . . Those who interrogate Muldoon's poems find themselves changing shapes each time he does."
Ireland's Literary Renaissance
Author: Ernest Augustus BoydPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
Irish Books in Print & Leabhair Gaeilge i GCló
Author: A treasury of Irish poetry in the English tongue, ed. by S.A. Brooke and T.W. Rolleston
Author: Irish poetryIrish Classics
Author: Declan KiberdPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674005051
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 726
Book Description
A celebration of the tenacious life of the enduring Irish classics, this book by one of Irish writing's most eloquent readers offers a brilliant and accessible survey of the greatest works since 1600 in Gaelic and English, which together have shaped one of the world's most original literary cultures. In the course of his discussion of the great seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Gaelic poems of dispossession, and of later work in that language that refuses to die, Declan Kiberd provides vivid and idiomatic translations that bring the Irish texts alive for the English-speaking reader. Extending from the Irish poets who confronted modernity as a cataclysm, and who responded by using traditional forms in novel and radical ways, to the great modern practitioners of such paradoxically conservative and revolutionary writing, Kiberd's work embraces three sorts of Irish classics: those of awesome beauty and internal rigor, such as works by the Gaelic bards, Yeats, Synge, Beckett, and Joyce; those that generate a myth so powerful as to obscure the individual writer and unleash an almost superhuman force, such as the Cuchulain story, the lament for Art O'Laoghaire, and even Dracula; and those whose power exerts a palpable influence on the course of human action, such as Swift's Drapier's Letters, the speeches of Edmund Burke, or the autobiography of Wolfe Tone. The book closes with a moving and daring coda on the Anglo-Irish agreement, claiming that the seeds of such a settlement were sown in the works of Irish literature. A delight to read throughout, Irish Classics is a fitting tribute to the works it reads so well and inspires us to read, and read again.
The Companion to Irish Traditional Music
Author: Fintan VallelyPublisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 9780814788028
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 506
Book Description
"The Companion to Irish Traditional Music is not just the ideal reference for the interested enthusiast and session player, it also provides a unique resource for every library, school and home with an interest in the distinctive rituals, qualities and history of Irish traditional music and song."--BOOK JACKET.
Petrie's complete Irish music
Author: George PetriePublisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486430804
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 449
Book Description
The work of 100 years and three generations of archivists, this compilation, which originally appeared in 1905, encompasses the musical wealth of a nation.
Classical Vocal Music in Print
Author: F. Mark DaughertyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Vocal music
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description