And, going back a bit here, Candice -
I've just been watching Owen Wingrave on BBC2. It might be the very same you
saw, certainly fits your description, I haven't checked the background out,
but:
Cor, lumme. Brilliant.
Best
Dave
----- Original Message -----
From: "Candice Ward" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2001 7:49 AM
Subject: Re: syllabics/Hopkins Browning
> Don't you like the James a la Britten, David? The way he uses "Tom, Tom,
the
> Piper's Son" in Turn of the Screw to reinforce the focus on the children?
> And the spooky Owen Wingrave is my favorite. I saw a film of the Britten
> Owen years and years ago that was shot in Norfolk in a wonderfully
> atmospheric house--maybe it was Britten's house, don't remember--but it
had
> windows of a size and shape that let in very little light, all of which
> looked gray all the time from inside the house, and it looked to me as if
> the film's lighting was tinted along the same spectrum so that
> everything--mobile and stationary--not only had its own shadow but an
> unchanging one, always the same length, depth, darkness, etc. One of the
> creepiest effects I've ever seen--Candice
>
>
> on 7/26/01 2:24 AM, david.bircumshaw at [log in to unmask]
wrote:
>
> > I think, if memory serves me, that Britten set Hopkins too, I know he
> > definitely set Blake and Donne, (and unlike much his work, I do like his
> > settings of poets).
> >
> > db
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "genet son of genet" <[log in to unmask]>
> > To: <[log in to unmask]>
> > Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2001 7:19 AM
> > Subject: Re: syllabics/Hopkins Browning
> >
> >
> >> Theres an interview somewhere with Anthony Burgess. In it he speaks of
> >> setting various pieces of H's poems to music, and also of finishing a
play
> >> of H's. I am sure many people have done things with Browning, and there
> > are
> >> some French musicans who have sets lots of H's work to music.
> >>
> >>
> >>> From: Roger Collett <[log in to unmask]>
> >>> Reply-To: Poetryetc provides a venue for a dialogue relating to poetry
> > and
> >>> poetics <[log in to unmask]>
> >>> To: [log in to unmask]
> >>> Subject: Re: syllabics
> >>> Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 22:37:48 +0100
> >>>
> >>> My wife, for whom the research is, wrote:
> >>>>>>>>
> >>> Of course, Bridges. I should have known. Tried to set one of his poems
to
> >>> music (about 40+ years ago; problem was not being a good enough
pianist
> > to
> >>> write an adequate piano part), and thinking back over the melody, it's
> >>> clear
> >>> I was aware of the rhythmic requirements. I think he had a lot more
> >>> influence in his day than his readership these days might suggest. I
> > wonder
> >>> now if he himself deliberately set this syllabic hare running, being
as
> > he
> >>> was in close correspondence with Hopkins and his so different prosodic
> >>> developments.
> >>>
> >>> Do thank Robin for me, I'd be most interested in the article. Am sure
> > he's
> >>> right about the classical slosh-over, remembering how I tried to write
> >>> Virgilian hexameters in the sixth-form, fully expecting to end up with
> >>> something vaguely Miltonic, and instead got something like rudimentary
> >>> sprung rhythm <<<<<
>
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