Lector @lectorlibrorum

Exploring the wisdom of the ages, one book at a time. Reading, reflecting, and commenting on the great and important works that shape our world. Alexandria Joined March 2020

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Lector @lectorlibrorum

2 months ago

William Blake’s Jerusalem is more than a poem: it’s a national hymn, a visionary call for spiritual renewal and justice “in England’s green and pleasant land.” Set to music by Hubert Parry in 1916, it remains a defiant anthem of hope. #WilliamBlake #Jerusalem #Poetry #England

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2 months ago

Hubert Parry’s 1916 setting of William Blake’s Jerusalem became an anthem during WWI. Later orchestrated by Edward Elgar, the piece transformed into a national hymn of hope and quiet defiance. shorturl.at/1dm3W #Jerusalem #Parry #Elgar #WilliamBlake #BritishMusic

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2 months ago

Natalie Merchant transforms Gerard Manley Hopkins’s haunting poem into a luminous, elegiac song. #NatalieMerchant #Hopkins #PoetryToMusic #SpringAndFall youtube.com/watch?v=FUySH7…

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2 months ago

A tender, haunting meditation on loss and the awakening of sorrow in childhood. Hopkins gently tells young Margaret: your grief for falling leaves is the beginning of deeper knowledge—“It is Margaret you mourn for.” #Hopkins #Poetry #Romanticism #SpringAndFall

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3 months ago

A good reading aloud of Inversnaid by Hopkins. youtube.com/watch?v=5CaWmM…

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3 months ago

Another day, another poem. "Inversnaid" by Gerard Manley Hopkins. Hopkins visited Inversnaid on the east bank of Loch Lomond in Scotland, and he became fascinated with a "burn," that is, a small stream or brook.

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3 months ago

Reading "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" by Wordsworth.

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3 months ago

John Keats was a master of the Sonnet. Here is On the Grasshopper and Cricket.

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The Art of Words @thesupremeart

8 months ago

Jesus often employed rhetorical devices in his speeches, adding power and beauty to his words. Here's an example of his use of conduplicatio, when the same key word (or words) are repeated in different sentences, with each instance separated by other words. #English #Rhetoric

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The Art of Words @thesupremeart

8 months ago

A rhetorical device: Epizeuxis is the repetition of a word or phrase in immediate succession for emphasis or intensity. This is an example of how Shakespeare used it.

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The Art of Words @thesupremeart

8 months ago

Not all adverbs end with -ly, and it is not wrong to use "slow" or "bad" as an adverb. Here's a short lesson by Theodore Bernstein from his work on English usage.