tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5010170380967519230.post417154025218091810..comments2024-03-23T20:37:37.891-07:00Comments on First Known When Lost: "Autumnal"Stephen Pentzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14882220887712092005noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5010170380967519230.post-32308891024847182662012-10-28T14:43:09.024-07:002012-10-28T14:43:09.024-07:00Mathias: thank you for that information. I agree:...Mathias: thank you for that information. I agree: it is unusual to find an interest in 1890s poetry among composers. (Or among anybody else, I'm afraid!) <br /><br />I notice also that Edward Thomas's "It Rains" is one of the six songs included in the cycle. As well as "Break, break, break" by Tennyson. An interesting selection.<br /><br />Thank you again.Stephen Pentzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14882220887712092005noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5010170380967519230.post-32387118309742034422012-10-28T10:58:38.755-07:002012-10-28T10:58:38.755-07:00Stephen,
I was pleased to find another poem which ...Stephen,<br />I was pleased to find another poem which has been set by Ian Venables. He wrote 'Vitae Summa Brevis' in 2002. You can find more details at his website:<br />http://ianvenables.com/compositions/songs/six-songs-op33<br />The song is available on a naxos CD, too.<br />Venables has been interested in the poets of the 1890s for a long time, quite unusual for a contemporary composer, I think.Mathias Richterhttp://andrew-young.de.tlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5010170380967519230.post-27104354348934734962012-10-27T13:08:10.517-07:002012-10-27T13:08:10.517-07:00Mr Floyd: thank you once again for sharing Dickin...Mr Floyd: thank you once again for sharing Dickinson's poetry. I've learned a great deal about her from what you've shared this autumn. And this particular poem is very fine indeed. As you say, it complements very well Thomas's "first known when lost."<br /><br />Thank you.Stephen Pentzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14882220887712092005noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5010170380967519230.post-28414558049248926222012-10-26T08:41:44.592-07:002012-10-26T08:41:44.592-07:00Sir,
I have always though the name of your blog m...Sir,<br /><br />I have always though the name of your blog meaningful in the most profound and heartbreaking way, a pithy and insightful comment on the human predicament: "individuation within finitude." I assume your choice of this title is taken from the E.Thomas poem.<br /><br />I begin each day with reading a poem or two by Wallace Stevens and Emily Dickinson, have done so for years. I read the below poem by Dickinson this morning. She says what Thomas says, what many poets have said: we learn more from irretrievable loss than we ever will from gain. I have stood over too many graves to doubt this observation.<br /><br /><br />Eden is that old-fashioned House<br />We dwell in every day<br />Without suspecting our abode<br />Until we drive away.<br /><br />How fair on looking back, the Day<br />We sauntered from the Door --<br />Unconscious our returning,<br />But discover it no more.<br /><br /><br />bruce floydnoreply@blogger.com