Poetry (past and present)

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Not the music written for TS Eliot's Four Quartets, but perhaps quite appropriate since Beethoven included a hymn of thanks to the "deity" of course in the Lydian mode!

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Quite beautiful and can be combined for a quite enjoyable experience!

Originally posted by scacchipazzo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9p7hGUbLKw
Not the music written for TS Eliot's Four Quartets, but perhaps quite appropriate since Beethoven included a hymn of thanks to the "deity" of course in the Lydian mode!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxquJf-5q_s

Quite beautiful and can be combined for a quite enjoyable experience!

Yes, to be sure.

Thanks.

Auden with an apropos classic painting:

http://poetrypages.lemon8.nl/life/musee/museebeauxarts.htm

Originally posted by Grampy Bobby
Auden with an apropos classic painting:

http://poetrypages.lemon8.nl/life/musee/museebeauxarts.htm

Excellent indeed! I do so love the written word and pictoric depictions of the written word are almost invariable great!

Of the twenty five, "Anthem for Doomed Youth" seems especially haunting;

many evenings, now, even decades later I still hear the concluding lines:

http://theotherpages.org/poems/books/owen/owen.html

Treasure for anyone's library in my view of the world...
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