This morning, through a link on another board, I stumbled on a music video of Loreena McKennitt's setting of Yeats's "The Stolen Child."
The music video is here.
The poem is here.
It dissolved the last forty years and made me think about my hopelessly romantic teenage self and some of the sung settings and performances of poems that I like a lot:
More McKennitt: Alfred Noyes's "The Highwayman"
Judy Collins: Yeats's
The Song of Wandering Aengus
Custer Larue: William Dunbar's
On the Nativity of Christ
John Shirley-Quirk: Ralph Vaughn Williams's "Five Mystical Songs," which sets five poems of George Herbert.
It's likely others here have favorite musical settings of poems and reasons for loving them, so here's an invitation to share them, with links to performance, or text, or both.
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