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Tchaikovsky’s very first composition was for a poem by Afanasy Fet; a poem he set to music, at the age of 16. Here is a recording of that song - ‘My genius, my angel, my friend’https://youtu.be/-MKonHP8gdk
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Excerpts from ‘Portraits of a Marriage’ ~ Sandor Marai. Translated by George Szirtes
#hungary#marai#readpic.twitter.com/yDAlcXhFmO
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The Hungarian writer, Sandor Marai, is better known in the English world for his fabulous prose; ‘Embers’ especially & ‘Portraits of a Marriage’. But he started as a poet & his poems still hold ground as Hungary’s most popular verse From, ‘The Withering World’
#poetry#hungarypic.twitter.com/lNIO16N4gu
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This was Tolstoy’s favorite poem - ‘On a haystack on a southern night..’ - written by the greatest of Russian lyricists, Afanasy Fet. Deeply influenced by both Schelling and Schopenhauer; Fet managed to combine their contradictions in his own verse
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Friedrich Holderlin- Germany’s greatest lyric poet. His thought wielded great influence over and gave form to poet and philosopher alike. To Goethe & Schiller and to the German Idealists, Schelling & Hegel His poem: ‘Home’ and, Heidegger on Holderlin
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From 'Ideas on the Philosophy of the History of Man' ~ Johann Gottfried von Herder
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Poetic liaisons again. Holderlin and Pope; this time. Both from the eighteenth century, but, at its different ends, and not contemporaneous. Pope preceded Holderin by some decades.
#poetry#pope#holderlinpic.twitter.com/9o7NazHQje
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Afanasy Fet - the 19th CE poet who persevered with ‘pure’ poetry or art for art’s sake when Russian poetry hit a nadir with civic verse in the golden age of Dostoevsky, Turgenev & Tolstoy Painting: ‘The Rooks have come Back’ ~ Aleksey Savrasov
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From the same period, the poet Rabia, of Balkh. She chides God for his indifference to her unrequited love for a slave. She was later killed by her brother for the indiscretion of love. Perhaps even, for that of the word
#poetry#persia#centralasiapic.twitter.com/ZxkOvpPyyT
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And this thread closes with a poem. Two actually from two poets in the Samanid period. The greatest poet of their time Abu Abdullah Rudaki of Bukhara and an poetess from a royal family - Rabia from Balkh. From the year 940 CE; ‘The Pen and the Harp’ ~ Rudaki:
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"I think we are losing beauty and there's the danger that, with it, we will lose the meaning of life." This is an excellent documentary film. Sir Roger Scruton "Why Beauty Matters"
#philosophy#beauty#scrutonhttps://vimeo.com/128428182 -
Perhaps the only contemporary singer of
#Carnatic music who melds melody and 'weighted depth' within a soothing aesthete of performance & song. Do listen@sreevalsanmenon Bagayanayya Nee | Dr. Sreevalsan J Menon | Chandrajyothi Raga | https://youtu.be/ZEErlHoq7mE via@YouTube -
In a longer poem ‘ A Villequier’ he struggles to convince God that he is trying to reconcile with his fate; and says too that he is unable to bear his grief. An especially poignant passage from the poem:pic.twitter.com/r2DKGMcxqb
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Victor Hugo, the leading light of Romanticism, was a literary colossus - poet, novelist & playwright. He remains recognized in France more for his poetry than for his novels. In ‘Demain, dès l’aube’ he quietly unwraps facets of grief; all recognizable even in translation
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Do read too, this gripping recounting of a recollection of childhood and its deconstruction by Edwin Muir, a Scottish poet and translator, in: ‘An Autobiography’
#memory#imaginationpic.twitter.com/iRBw0TBg3f
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The capacity to dream and travel wide and far on the wings of the imagination WB Yeats: ‘The Lake Isle of Innisfree
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The start of a year is a good time to think about the imagination and the limitless possibilities of the brain. A powerful organ that can, through its mind, move & stretch every horizon to the tune of the human will. Emily Dickinson: ‘The Brain is wider than the sky...’
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It must end with a poem; I thought. ‘To a Tree’ ~ Elizabeth Bishop (The picture is of a much loved Raintree outside home; in India)
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More on Southey and with context. The dog-eared and tattered book belongs to my grandfather. It might have belonged to his forbears. The book from which my beloved father read to us, of mighty men and mightier words, when we were children.pic.twitter.com/PKpO3Zht66
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Here is another excerpt from ‘Pale Fire’; these lines from ‘the poet John Shade’. In the poem, his ‘unattractive’ daughter is rejected by a blind suitor. Unable to bear it any further, she kills herself.
#Nabokov in the voice of ‘the poet John Shade’ who writes of his daughter:pic.twitter.com/l5M32E11YR
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