December 2024
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Though this is one of my favorite Christmas works, I hadn't heard it for five or six years. This year I'd been thinking about it, but didn't have a chance to hear it until a couple of days after Christmas, and then I listened to it twice in as many days. As we're still in…
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A couple of days ago someone added a comment on an old post in which there was some discussion of the correct pronunciation of "slough." Three possible pronunciations were mentioned there: rhymes with "cow"; sounds like "slew"; rhymes with "puff." Out of curiosity, I did a search for "how do you pronounce slough" and got…
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Not exactly or only the nativity–the Incarnation, the boldness of it. Glorious the sun in mid career; Glorious th' assembled fires appear; Glorious the comet's train: Glorious the trumpet and alarm; Glorious th' almighty stretch'd-out arm; Glorious th' enraptur'd main: Glorious the northern lights a-stream; Glorious the song, when God's the theme; Glorious the…
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Who? If you're asking that question: The Call were a band who were moderately successful in the 1980s. Only moderately successful, but respected by both critics and musicians to a greater degree than their general popularity would indicate. If my memory is correct, which it may not be, I heard of them because there was…
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Most of the poetry I read is from the 19th and 20th centuries. The tendency of the first is strongly in the direction of passion; of the second, of alienation and obscurity. Both tend to treat the experience of poetry, both as writer and reader, as a somewhat eccentric thing, very much off the track…
Light On Dark Water 