The Poet's Life
”The Poet’s Life” is a song written by the English composer Edward Elgar in 1892, with words by "Ellen Burroughs".[1]
The manuscript of the song has a dedication to "Mrs. Fitton",[2] but this is crossed out.
The song was published in 1907 as one of the Seven Lieder of Edward Elgar, with English and German words.
Lyrics
German words by Ed. Sachs.
English THE POET'S LIFE
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German DICHTERLEBEN
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NOTES
• There are about 20 lines of verse, of which only the first and last are shown.
• We believe this text to be copyright under U. S. copyright law. We will not display it until we obtain permission to do so or discover it is in the public domain.
Recordings
- Songs and Piano Music by Edward Elgar has "The Poet's Life" performed by Mark Wilde (tenor), with David Owen Norris (piano).
- The Songs of Edward Elgar SOMM CD 220 Neil Mackie (tenor) with Malcolm Martineau (piano), at Southlands College, London, April 1999
gollark: It does all sciences except space - very slowly - and has a reasonably large mall... but only a 30MW steam power setup.
gollark: I just managed to totally kill my base's power grid by using robots!
gollark: Er, utility science, I forgotr.
gollark: I'm planning to get hightech science and some bots, then burn the place to the ground and start over with a Modular Train Future™.
gollark: The spaghetti grows.
References
- Kennedy, Michael, Portrait of Elgar (Oxford University Press, 1968) ISBN 0-19-315414-5
- Ellen Burroughs was a pseudonym of the American poet Sophie Jewett (1861—1909)
- Isobel Fitton, "Ysobel" of the Enigma Variations
External links
- The Poet's Life: Scores at the International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP)
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