Eletta Senso questa settimana ho proposto un tautogramma in Ⓟ in onore della Primavera. Come sapete, è un gioco linguistico in cui tutte le parole iniziano con la stessa lettera, tranne articoli e preposizioni e poco altro (in questo caso la consonante Ⓟ ) Penso ai prodigi che porteràla primavera percorrendocome paziente pittorepaesaggi piacevolmentepervasi di… Read More Tautogramma in Ⓟ
Anna Sewell (born on 30 March 1820, in Norfolk, England) is a famous English novelist renowned for her best-selling novel ‘Black Beauty’ , considered as a children’s classic. Her concern with horses began early in life. At fourteen, she slipped in the rain on her way home from school and broke both her ankles. Unfortunately,… Read More Anna Sewell & Black Beauty
R.S. Thomas, in full Ronald Stuart Thomas, was a Welsh poet and Anglican priest whose birth anniversary falls today: he was born on 29 March 1913 and died in 2000.Noted for his Welsh nationalism and his intense spirituality , he was also a political activist, a pacifist, and an ardent supporter of the Campaign for… Read More R.S. Thomas and Poetry
Yesterday I spoke about Housman’s poem “With rue my heart is laden”, belonging to his 1896 collection “A Shropshire Lad”.The “rue” appearing in the first line , which is also used as the title of the poem, does not only express a feeling of sorrow and bitter regret, as in that poem, but can also… Read More Ophelia’s Rue /2
Alfred Edward Housman (26 March 1859 –1936), was an English poet and classical scholar, whose verse exerted a strong influence on later poets.Today he is best known for his cycle of poems “A Shropshire Lad” published in 1896 partly at the author’s expense, after it had been rejected by a publisher.The following poem is one… Read More Housman’s Rue /1
Robert Frost, one of the most celebrated figures in American poetry, was born in San Francisco on 26 March 1874. He died in Boston in 1963Frequently honoured during his lifetime, he is the only poet who received four Pulitzer Prizes for Poetry. “Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has… Read More Robert Frost on poetry
Today, 25 March, nine months before Christmas, the Christian Church celebrates the Feast of the Annunciation (Lady Day), which commemorates the visit of the archangel Gabriel to the Virgin Mary, during which he informed her that she would be the mother of Jesus Christ, the Son of God. The Annunciation has been one of the… Read More L’Annunciata
Eletta Senso (Inchiostronerodenso) questa settimana ha proposto un Lipogramma , cioè un testo in cui non deve mai comparire una determinata lettera. Oggi la lettera da omettere è la U, in un testo riguardante i COLORI , per cercare di uscire dalle tinte lⓊgⓊbri e c Ⓤpe e celebrare l’inizio della primavera. Ecco il mio… Read More Lipogramma in Ⓤ
In yesterday’s post “Sara Teasdale and Lake Como”, speaking of the poem “Villa Serbelloni, Bellaggio” , where the myth of Apollo and Daphne is evoked, I said that the poet wanted to escape her anguish and allow herself a moment of respite. expressing the desire to turn into a laurel as Daphne did. The story… Read More Apollo and Daphne
In 1915 Sara Teasdale published her third collection of poetry “Rivers to the Sea” containing the section “Vignettes Overseas” about places visited in Europe, above all in Italy.One of them is “Villa Serbelloni, Bellaggio”.Bellagio (spelled with a single g) is a lovely town on a peninsula overlooking Lake Como in Northern Italy, located halfway between… Read More Sara Teasdale and Lake Como
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