"So Racist"

"Their political mission amounts, simply, to a total dissociation from and dissolution of the bonds of our national past. That mission, like Amanda Gorman’s poem, is as self-defeating as it is empty." https://t.co/Cw4xNNj7h1

— The American Conservative (@amconmag) January 26, 2021

Something on Siegfried Sassoon

From: 2017 My uncle Siegfried: Sister Jessica Gatty on her life-changing friendship with the great war poet by Joanna Moorhead
Siegfried Sassoon’s intense friendship with his niece caused a family fallout and led to her becoming a nun. As new opera Silver Birch explores the writer’s life and beliefs, we meet her in her convent

Anthem for Doomed Youth by Wilfred Owen

If

Joseph Pearce Writes a Play about Siegfried Sasson and Wilfred Owen

CWR Dispatch: Joseph Pearce reflects on his “dramatic verse tapestry” about two “war poets”

“I really have to thank God, the giver of the Muse, the source of all true inspiration,” says the prolific biographer and critic, “for enabling me to assist in the bringing of this wonderful thing”—Death Comes for the War Poets—”into being.”

Wilfred Owen, "Dulce et Decorum Est"

Christopher Eccleston reads:




(via Burned-Over District Observer)

For Remembrance Day

Remembrance Day: Sean Bean reads Wilfred Owen's Anthem for Doomed Youth

Peter Hitchens on World War I and War in General

My Subject is War

Cambon, by the way, would remark after the war that a revolution had taken place in Britain in the years between 1914 and 1918. It simply was not the country it had been. How right he was. Huge numbers of the best people were dead, and so were centuries of tradition, loyalty, faith and kindness. In my view it was a revolution we could well have done without, and whose effects we still feel. I treasure the fantasy that at Christmas 1914, the truce in the trenches had spread and spread, across time and distance, until the soldiers of both armies, recognising the whole thing was futile and wrong, piled up their weapons, shook hands and walked home to their wives and children, laughing at the puce-faced ‘statesmen’ who swore and shouted at them to remain at their posts.

An intro to St. Josemaría Escrivá's teachings on lay spirituality

Holiness for Everyone
A recent book by Eric Sammons looks at the inheritance St. Josemaría left to the Church. As Scott Hahn says in the foreword: "I could not have written a book as useful as Eric’s, for he sees my family inheritance from a different perspective."

Opus Dei - Holiness for Everyone
The Practical Spirituality of St. Josemaría Escrivá
by Eric Sammons

Scott Hahn has his own book about his experiences with Opus Dei.

Worthy of a review; who wants to obtain a copy for me? Does it mention love of parents and family while neglecting how the ordo caritatis is an ordering principle for one's life? Does it give the theological foundation for Catholic "relocalization"? I wonder if the local Catholic bookstore might carry it, or the bookstore at the shrine.

Mr. Sammons was on The Catholics Next Door several days ago, but the show isn't archived, as far as I can tell.

Related:
author's website
The Thin Veil review (weekly giveaway)
Jennifer Fitz's review (Amazon)

Josemaria Escriva. Founder of Opus Dei -News


Peter Hitchens on Philip Larkin: They Tuck you Up, Your Mum and Dad
Saint Benedict of Nursia (ca. 480 - ca. 547)

I've been listening to the words of "The Highwayman", and I can't help but wonder if the poem doesn't present a bad-boy fantasy (suited for the Romantic period?). Tim is not quite a jealous beta, since he's not really a provider.

BBC Early Music Show: Thomas Campion

Catherine Bott reflects on the life, poetry and music of the Elizabethan/Jacobean London-based physician Thomas Campion. He was as celebrated for his poems as for his many songs, and his most famous piece is considered to be Never Weather-Beaten Saile, which was familiar as a hymn for many years after his death.

Campion's legacy of love songs and a large collection of poetry and pamphlets on music and literature, as well as his many masques, have made him an important figure in the history of Renaissance art, even if he is perhaps less well-known than his contemporary John Dowland.

The programme includes a wide selection of recordings of Campion's music alongside readings from his poetry and his masques.

Playlist:

Thomas Campion: Never weather-beaten saile
Drew Minter (countertenor)
Paul O'Dette (lute)
Harmonia Mundi HMU 907023
Track: 22

Thomas Campion: Come cheerful day
Rachel Elliott (soprano)
Mark Padmore (tenor)
Peter Harvey (baritone)
Nigel North (lute)
Linn CKD 105
Track: 1

Thomas Campion: Turn back you wanton flyer; It fell on a summers day
Michael Chance (countertenor)
Nigel North (lute)
Linn CKD 105
Tracks: 3 and 4

Reading: Canto Primo by Thomas Campion
(narrated by Malcolm Raeburn)

Thomas Campion: I care not for these ladies
Robin Blaze (countertenor)
Elizabth Kenny (lute)
HYPERION CDA 67268
Track: 2

Segue

Thomas Campion: Come let us sound with melody
Steven Rickards (countertenor)
Dorthoy Linell (lute)
NAXOS 8.553380
Track: 1

Reading: Rose Cheekt Lawra, Come by Thomas Campion
(narrated by Malcolm Raeburn)

Thomas Campion: My love hath vowd
Rachel Elliott (soprano)
Nigel North (lute)
Linn CKD 105
Track: 7

Thomas Campion: Now hath Flora robbed her bowers
Robin Blaze (countertenor)
Elizabeth Kenny (lute)
David Miller (theorbo, lute)
Joanna Levine (consort bass viol)
Mark Levy (lyra bass)
HYPERION CDA 67268
Track: 7

Segue

Reading (excerpt from Lord Hay's Masque by Thomas Campion)

Thomas Campion: Mr Confess's Coranto
Elizabeth Kenny (lute)
HYPERION CDA 67268
Track: 8

Segue

Reading (excerpt from Lord Hay's Masque by Thomas Campion)

Thomas Campion: Lord Hayes Masque
Elizabeth Kenny (lute)
David Miller (theorbo, lute)
Joanna Levine (consort bass viol)
Mark Levy (lyra bass)
HYPERION CDA 67268
Track: 10

segue

Thomas Campion: Move now with measured sound
Robin Blaze (countertenor)
Elizabeth Kenny (lute)
David Miller (theorbo, lute)
Joanna Levine (consort bass viol)
Mark Levy (lyra bass)
HYPERION CDA 67268
Track: 9

Thomas Campion: The cypress curtain of the night
Michael Chance (countertenor)
Nigel North (lute)
Linn CKD 105
Track: 23

Thomas Campion: The peacefull westerne winde
Rachel Elliott (soprano)
Mark Padmore (tenor)
Peter Harvey (baritone)
Nigel North (lute)
Concordia
Linn CKD 105
Track: 2

Thomas Campion: Author of Light (4th Book)
Robin Blaze (countertenor)
Elizabeth Kenny (lute)
David Miller (theorbo, lute)
HYPERION CDA 67268
Track: 22.

More on Thomas Campion:
Thomas Campion (1567-1620)
HOASM: Thomas Campion (Campian)
Poets' Corner - Thomas Campion - Selected Works
Thomas Campion: Poetry Foundation [author]
Classical Archives: Composer: Thomas Campion
The Cambridge History of English
wiki

Fain would I wed by Thomas Campion (1567-1620)


Never Weather-beaten Sail - Thomas Campion


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