Re: [ADS-L] ADS-L D igest - 27 Feb 2009 to 28 Feb 2009 (#20 09-60)

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The novelist Eudora Welty took the title of one of her novels, THE GOLDEN 
APPLES, from Yeats' poem.

In a message dated 3/2/09 11:08:57 AM, laurence.horn at YALE.EDU writes:


> 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
> 
> >
> >(No, it isn't about a loose cow.)
> >
> >JL
> >
> >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.
> >>
> >>  James Harbeck.
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