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).
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----- 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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