Sonnets and Songs


Leído por Bruce Kachuk

Arthur Upson's insightful and sensitive poetic art is grandly displayed in this selection of some of his best work. As a tribute to Upson, Ruth Shepard Phelps proclaims in the introductory poem of this volume, "And all the rare and lovely things that are / Bloom newly now to celebrate thy name." Indeed "rare and lovely" are apt concepts to describe the nature of Upson's work, his poems being conceived by a man with a quest, with a passion for meaning, a man "fain to know / What are humanity and human fate". Upson is a grand poet, an "explorer of a star / Where all is strange", and although his poet's determination is mired in "phantom days, each one / The shadow of a hope", he is determined to continue his fervent search for meaning, despite realizing that, "Slow-tongued Experience teaches me to bear / On lips more patient Love's impatient prayer."

Just as Upson's talent faces no diminishment by the "phantom days" that surround him, neither is his poetic skill encumbered by its mandatory human incarnation - an incarnation of which the poet is intensely aware, intensely affected by, and which compels him to produce works of insight and earthly resonance to transform his quest for a search for meaning, for truth, and for a comprehension and enactment of the power of love. This is the essence of the current that runs through this collection and is manifested in each of these magnificent poems, resulting in an uplifting volume of inspiring readability and rousing introspective depth.
- Summary by Bruce Kachuk (0 hr 55 min)

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Dedication by Arthur Upson; Introductory Poem and Note by Ruth Shepard Phelps 2:13 Leído por Bruce Kachuk
After a Dolmetsch Concert 0:58 Leído por Bruce Kachuk
The Earth-Errand 1:25 Leído por Bruce Kachuk
"Vers La Vie" 1:14 Leído por Bruce Kachuk
Phantom Life 0:38 Leído por Bruce Kachuk
"At The Hill's Top Bides Love" 1:07 Leído por Bruce Kachuk
Love's Patience 1:20 Leído por Bruce Kachuk
A Motive out of Lohengrin 1:19 Leído por Bruce Kachuk
My Song Must Not Forsake Me 1:15 Leído por Bruce Kachuk
The Lake 1:01 Leído por Bruce Kachuk
Absence and Presence 0:51 Leído por Bruce Kachuk
A Song of Love and Your Dreams 0:50 Leído por Bruce Kachuk
The Mystery of Beauty 2:08 Leído por Bruce Kachuk
The Tragic Winds 1:34 Leído por Bruce Kachuk
To a Picture of My Mother as a Girl 0:42 Leído por Bruce Kachuk
Song of Agamede (From "The City") 0:59 Leído por Bruce Kachuk
The Sobbing Woman 1:18 Leído por Bruce Kachuk
The Incurables 1:19 Leído por Bruce Kachuk
Chorus (From "The City ") 2:27 Leído por Bruce Kachuk
Arlington 1:15 Leído por Bruce Kachuk
Between Hingham and Braintree 1:46 Leído por Bruce Kachuk
Wheat Elevators 1:16 Leído por Bruce Kachuk
From "Octaves in an Oxford Garden" 7:11 Leído por Bruce Kachuk
Minstrels in Bloomsbury 1:09 Leído por Bruce Kachuk
Thought of Stevenson 1:19 Leído por Bruce Kachuk
After Reading "The Golden Treasury" in the Green Park 1:19 Leído por Bruce Kachuk
On the Lower Rhine 1:20 Leído por Bruce Kachuk
Souvenance de Liège 1:16 Leído por Bruce Kachuk
After Reading an Old Comedy 1:15 Leído por Bruce Kachuk
After Reading "An Italian Garden" 1:51 Leído por Bruce Kachuk
Chorus (From "The City") 1:08 Leído por Bruce Kachuk
Golden Rod 1:16 Leído por Bruce Kachuk
In October 1:16 Leído por Bruce Kachuk
When Roseleaves Fall 1:09 Leído por Bruce Kachuk
Springtide of the Soul 2:29 Leído por Bruce Kachuk
"Ex Libris" 1:14 Leído por Bruce Kachuk
When the Song is Done 0:58 Leído por Bruce Kachuk