Ode to the Passions
Ode to the Passions

Author: Alice Mary Smith

Publisher: A-R Editions, Inc.

Published: 2019-01-01

Total Pages: 325

ISBN-13: 198720333X

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Alice Mary Smith (1839–84) was one of the few women composers in the early to mid-Victorian era to write in larger-scale genres. Moreover, she was able to have nearly all her works publicly performed. By 1878 Smith had turned her attention to works for chorus and orchestra: Ode to the Passions was the second of four choral pieces published before her untimely death. The work closely follows the text of William Collins’s The Passions: An Ode for Music of 1746 and is in nine movements (some of which are linked), preceded by an orchestral introduction. Composed expressly for the Three Choir Festival held in 1882 in Hereford, it received wide acclaim and was subsequently performed in Bradford, in London (twice), and even reached Australia. Smith deliberately eschewed the harmonic language of the continental composers, and, no doubt because of this, her works fell out of popularity shortly after her death.

Ode to the Passions
Ode to the Passions

Author: Frederic Hymen Cowen

Publisher: Palala Press

Published: 2015-09-19

Total Pages: 82

ISBN-13: 9781343172234

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The Prophet
The Prophet

Author: Kahlil Gibran

Publisher: Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

Published: 2020-08-20

Total Pages: 128

ISBN-13: 9390287820

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A book of poetic essays written in English, Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet is full of religious inspirations. With the twelve illustrations drawn by the author himself, the book took more than eleven years to be formulated and perfected and is Gibran's best-known work. It represents the height of his literary career as he came to be noted as ‘the Bard of Washington Street.’ Captivating and vivified with feeling, The Prophet has been translated into forty languages throughout the world, and is considered the most widely read book of the twentieth century. Its first edition of 1300 copies sold out within a month.

Ramshackle Ode
Ramshackle Ode

Author: Keith Leonard

Publisher: HarperCollins

Published: 2016-04-05

Total Pages: 115

ISBN-13: 0544649680

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A sparkling debut collection from a Pushcart Prize-nominated poet that makes an ecstatic argument for living Containing joy and suffering side by side, Ramshackle Ode offers elegies and odes as necessary partners to bring out the greatest power in each. By turns celebratory, meditative, tender, and rebellious, these poems reimagine the divisions and intersections of life and death, the human and the natural world, the brutal and the beautiful. Time and again, they choose hope. From an award-winning young poet in the tradition of Marie Howe, Walt Whitman, Gerald Stern, and contemporary American bard Maurice Manning, Ramshackle Ode presents a new voice singing toward transcendence, offering the sense that, though this world is fragile, human existence is a wonderfully stubborn miracle of chance.

The Low Passions: Poems
The Low Passions: Poems

Author: Anders Carlson-Wee

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2019-03-12

Total Pages: 98

ISBN-13: 0393652394

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In a “trenchantly observed and moving debut” (John James, Kenyon Review), Anders Carlson-Wee mines nourishment and holiness from the darkest of our human origins. Explosive and incantatory, The Low Passions traces the fringes of the American experiment through the eyes of a young drifter. Pathologically frugal, reckless, and vulnerable, the narrator of these viscerally compelling poems hops freight trains, hitchhikes, dumpster dives, and sleeps in the homes of total strangers, scavenging forgotten and hardscrabble places for tangible forms of faith.

Criticism, Performance, and the Passions in the Eighteenth Century
Criticism, Performance, and the Passions in the Eighteenth Century

Author: James Harriman-Smith

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2021-03-18

Total Pages: 249

ISBN-13: 1108875629

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Great art is about emotion. In the eighteenth century, and especially for the English stage, critics developed a sensitivity to both the passions of a performance and what they called the transitions between those passions. It was these pivotal transitions, scripted by authors and executed by actors, that could make King Lear beautiful, Hamlet terrifying, Archer hilarious and Zara electrifying. James Harriman-Smith recovers a lost way of appreciating theatre as a set of transitions that produce simultaneously iconic and dynamic spectacles; fascinating moments when anything seems possible. Offering fresh readings and interpretations of Shakespearean and eighteenth-century tragedy, historical acting theory and early character criticism, this volume demonstrates how a concern with transition binds drama to everything, from lyric poetry and Newtonian science, to fine art and sceptical enquiry into the nature of the self.