No fooling, I sit here on the last weekday of Spring Break watching not the deer in the driveway, but the rain pouring down. I will post two April-themed poetic things today.
The first is my reading in Middle English of the Prologue to the Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer. Of the dozen or so recording I have on Soundcloud, this one is by far the one that gets the most play. Perhaps people want to see who would ever try this. I must say that knowing German helps with Middle English.
https://soundcloud.com/arthur-turfa-1/prologue-canterbury-tales-in
And "April is the cruelest month", as TS Eliot reminds us in The Waste Land:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rpFBSO65P4
In the popular mind, poets do not hold regular jobs or have normal lives. They exist on air and live for art's sake. But Chaucer was a knight, a diplomat at times, and a figure at court. Eliot was a banker and then a publisher. I will speak more on this theme in future posts.
Poetry month.....every month for some of us!
The first is my reading in Middle English of the Prologue to the Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer. Of the dozen or so recording I have on Soundcloud, this one is by far the one that gets the most play. Perhaps people want to see who would ever try this. I must say that knowing German helps with Middle English.
https://soundcloud.com/arthur-turfa-1/prologue-canterbury-tales-in
And "April is the cruelest month", as TS Eliot reminds us in The Waste Land:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rpFBSO65P4
In the popular mind, poets do not hold regular jobs or have normal lives. They exist on air and live for art's sake. But Chaucer was a knight, a diplomat at times, and a figure at court. Eliot was a banker and then a publisher. I will speak more on this theme in future posts.
Poetry month.....every month for some of us!
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