Banjo52

Conversation. Especially literature and language, education, football and baseball, movies, history, then and now, birds, two-lane roads. "Banjo" is a fun word, and the instrument can make fine music. But this isn't really a blog about banjos, except in the metaphorical sense of interesting sounds riding across a valley from one porch to another. Click on any photo to enlarge. Students, remember to footnote. All text and photos: © 2009-2014 Banjo52

Showing posts with label Romanticism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Romanticism. Show all posts
Feb 15, 2011

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "Frost at Midnight" : Solitude and Creativity

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In the spirit of yesterday’s talk about poetry and art as more selfless, solitary activities than they seem to be in these days of bountiful...
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Mar 17, 2010

GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS, "CARRION COMFORT"

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GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS AND DEAN YOUNG: STRANGE BEDFELLOWS? “Carrion Comfort” is one of the “Terrible Sonnets,” poems of religious questioning...
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Oct 22, 2009

BACH, POETRY: BANALITIES FROM THE PROVINCES

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I don’t know enough about classical music to declare much about it, but the power of all music intrigues me. So from my cultural outpost in ...
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