10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PLANGENCY»
Discover the use of
plangency in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
plangency and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Oxford Handbook of British and Irish War Poetry
Herbert Tucker has recently observed that 'saddest of all Victorian epics,
theIdyllsin their gloomy analytic coherence shadow with equal plangency the
losses that empire exacts and the downfall that awaits it'.64 This plangency can
be sensed ...
2
Essays on the Art of Chaucer's Verse
ple of “the inadequacy of riming octosyllables as a suitable vehicle for plangency”
(Davenport 1988, 65), in fact shows plangency deliberately contained by a plain
diction and an almost austere meter: 475 “I have of sorwe so gret won That joye ...
3
The Cambridge History of English Poetry
The form may derive from the ballad measure of fourteeners, and was certainly
thought suitable for singing, adding to the plangency of the form.23 A poem for
which music survives, but which also demonstrates the potential of the form to ...
4
The Music of Thought in the Poetry of George Oppen and ...
It was some time before I learned to hear the plangency emanating from the
prosaic directness of utterances of this kind. Although the "metrical contract" is not
clear until the fourth line, "from which the plainest narrative begins," that line is a ...
Therefore, the poet means to say, there is commotion and plangency all around.
But, on a sudden, the commotion and the plangency, which were due to the storm
, have stopped, and 'deepest silence' prevails all around; and so, to the poet, ...
''She sang with the plangency and tears of her people and then on with equal
lustiness to hip-shuddering and finger-snapping jazz.''≥π No wonder, then, that
blackness, with all of its imagined ''plangency and tears,'' lends such powerful ...
Fannie Hurst, Daniel Itzkovitz,
2004
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A Selection from Scrutiny:
No one who has responded perceptively to the mode established at the
beginning of the poem would read this as a trivial sing-song, but it clearly doesn't
lend itself to noble plangency. ' Flitting' and ' flop' are key words — and 'flop',
while ...
. In [Campo Santo] Sebald reveals his distinctive tone, as his winding sentences gradually mingle together curiosity and plangency, learning and self-revelation. . . . [Readers will] be rewarded with unexpected illuminations.” –The ...
9
Poetics en Passant: Redefining the Relationship Between ...
... popular annuals that published them, which favored a style she characterizes
as “the public register of mournful plangency.” In this market-driven poetics, form
was always to be secondary—a far, far second—to feeling, which was paramount
...
10
Dream Worlds: Mass Consumption in Late Nineteenth-century France
He later recalled that in his courses the word "liberty" tolled repeatedly like a bell
whose plangency could work miracles. In other words, Gide was thoroughly
inculcated in the dogmas of the Paris group economists. He himself taught the ...
Rosalind H. Williams,
1991
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PLANGENCY»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
plangency is used in the context of the following news items.
Pasa Review: Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival opening program
At full throttle, his tone could err on the side of plangency, but that was the exception rather than the rule. Of course, it was not an issue at all in ... «Santa Fe New Mexican, Jul 15»
BBC Proms 2015: BBC Symphony Orchestra / Oramo review: Much …
Christopher Maltman extracted every ounce of plangency from the baritone solo's evocation of the Israelites' desolation and Oramo shaped the ... «Evening Standard, Jul 15»
REVIEW: Second Soprano, King's Head
... through to the fear and resentment of soldiers under fire, to plangency and warm empathy in the nursing station, and to wry comedy at each ... «British Theatre, Jun 15»
Death in Venice, Garsington Opera
... hero of Martinů's Julietta left me longing to see him do much more in the Langridge line, combines both, but with a unique plangency. «The Arts Desk, Jun 15»
LSO/Ibragimova/Haitink, Barbican, review: Alina Ibragimova excels …
... instrumental entry – eloquence from muted brass, mock-plangency from the strings, and with the harp sounding like a sepulchral bass drum. «The Independent, Jun 15»
The Queen of Spades, Coliseum, London, review: David Alden's …
Peter Hoare's sound at the start is held-in, but it acquires heart-rending plangency as he is drawn, Wozzeck-like, to his doom. Arts + Ents News ... «The Independent, Jun 15»
Carmen, Glyndebourne, review: 'extraordinarily good musical …
Pavel Cernoch sings Don José with plangency and power, making the Flower Song a highlight of the evening, and his final return as the ... «Telegraph.co.uk, May 15»
Carmen (London Coliseum)
Yet his Flower Song has plangency and emotional depth and his jealous rage at Escamillo bristles with animosity. Limpid soprano Eleanor ... «WhatsOnStage.com, May 15»
'Missoula' considers campus rapes at the University of Montana …
His indictment of malfeasance of various sorts, from personal to governmental, reaches new plangency in Missoula, which considers campus ... «Christian Science Monitor, May 15»
Monteverdi Choir/Gardiner, Wigmore Hall, review: Good in parts
Singing the female role in the Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda which followed, she found a throbbing plangency which was set off by a ... «The Independent, May 15»