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

[Kari Castor]

As did Ray Bradbury, with his collection (and the titular short story) The
Golden Apples of the Sun.


On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 11:28 AM, <RonButters at aol.com> wrote:

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> The novelist Eudora Welty took the title of one of her novels, THE
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> In a message dated 3/2/09 11:08:57 AM, laurence.horn at YALE.EDU writes:
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> > At 9:04 AM -0500 3/2/09, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
> > >Somebody mentioned "Golden Apples of the Sun."=A0 The name of Yeats's
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> > >"Song of the Wandering Aengus."
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> > Yes, I did, and of course you're right, although the title change was
> > Judy Collins's doing, not mine.=A0 Worse still, I mistakenly
> > assimilated the song to the category of "American folk singers
> > covering *English* poets", for which mea maxima culpa.=A0 May I be in
> > heaven a half hour before the Irish know I'm dead.
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> > 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>
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> > >>=A0 Actually (according to OED), a carol was originally a ring-dance
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> > >>=A0 it extended from that to the music. There is no "story" sense
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> > >>=A0 I can't off the top of my head think of any well-known Christmas
> > >>=A0 carols that were first poems, though "In the Bleak Mid-Winter"
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> > >>=A0 I would not call a carol, though it is a Christmas song) was
> > >>=A0 originally a poem by Christina Rossetti, later set to music by two
> > >>=A0 different fellows (Darke is, I think, the better-known), and
> Parry's
> > >>=A0 stirring "Jerusalem" set a poem by William Blake to music. The
> > >>=A0 Coventry Carol ("Lullay, lulla, thou little tiny child...") is so
> > >>=A0 named because its first performance was as part of one of the
> > >>=A0 segments of the Coventry cycle plays (which were performed on or
> > >>=A0 around the feast of Corpus Christi, actually), and it was always,
> > >>=A0 from the beginning (16th century), a song.
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> > >>=A0 James Harbeck.
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