ADS-L Digest - 27 Feb 2009 to 28 Feb 2009 (#2009-60)

[Laurence Horn]

At 9:04 AM -0500 3/2/09, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
>Somebody mentioned "Golden Apples of the Sun."  The name of Yeats's poem is
>"Song of the Wandering Aengus."

Yes, I did, and of course you're right, although the title change was
Judy Collins's doing, not mine.  Worse still, I mistakenly
assimilated the song to the category of "American folk singers
covering *English* poets", for which mea maxima culpa.  May I be in
heaven a half hour before the Irish know I'm dead.

LH

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>(No, it isn't about a loose cow.)
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>JL
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>On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 11:46 PM, James Harbeck <jharbeck at sympatico.ca>wrote:
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>>  Actually (according to OED), a carol was originally a ring-dance and
>>  it extended from that to the music. There is no "story" sense listed.
>>  I can't off the top of my head think of any well-known Christmas
>>  carols that were first poems, though "In the Bleak Mid-Winter" (which
>>  I would not call a carol, though it is a Christmas song) was
>>  originally a poem by Christina Rossetti, later set to music by two
>>  different fellows (Darke is, I think, the better-known), and Parry's
>>  stirring "Jerusalem" set a poem by William Blake to music. The
>>  Coventry Carol ("Lullay, lulla, thou little tiny child...") is so
>>  named because its first performance was as part of one of the
>>  segments of the Coventry cycle plays (which were performed on or
>>  around the feast of Corpus Christi, actually), and it was always,
>>  from the beginning (16th century), a song.
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>>  James Harbeck.
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