Robert Schumann. The undisputed master of the sad song. I remember one night, thinking to myself….what is all this meditation for? And from time to time, it’s clear. Tonight was just such a time. I bought tickets to hear Susan Gilmour Bailey sing The Schumann Letters. I went with my son. Without thinking, I do […]
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People often see women at the turn of the century as downtrodden and powerless creatures, or worse, the female artists and poets of the era as simpering idealists, heavily romantic, with their heads in clouds of angst. In this sonnet, Edna St. Vincent Millay “puts the boot in” to all that with a poem as […]
Whenever I become frustrated with work; whenever I want to reach out and shake someone to help them “see”, I try to think of this quote from W. H. Auden’s poem, “the Age of Anxiety” (1948) We would rather be ruined than changed We would rather die in our dread Than climb the cross of […]