Songs About Poets/Poetry

[cameron]

Just been thinking about this and came up with a few:

For Mr Thomas (Dylan) by Van Morrison - The Philosopher's Stone

Sylvia Plath (?) Ryan Adams - Gold

Lozenge of Love by Radiohead. Line taken from Philip Larkin's poem Sad Steps. Also Myxomatosis by Radiohead - based on another Larkin poem.

And to end on a cultural high note: Peter Grimes by Benjamin Britten - based on The Borough by George Crabbe.

Anyone know of others?

Cam

[camus]

Here's a cracker, I highly recommend the Album.

Artist Nick Cave (And The Bad Seeds)
Album Abattoir Blues / The Lyre Of Orpheus
Song There She Goes, My Beautiful World

The wintergreen, the juniper
The cornflower and the chicory
All the words you said to me
Still vibrating in the air
The elm, the ash and the linden tree
The dark and deep, enchanted sea
The trembling moon and the stars unfurled
There she goes, my beautiful world

There she goes, my beautiful world
There she goes, my beautiful world
There she goes, my beautiful world
There she goes again

John Willmot penned his poetry
riddled with the pox
Nabakov wrote on index cards,
at a lectem, in his socks
St. John of the Cross did his best stuff
imprisoned in a box
And JohnnyThunders was half alive
when he wrote Chinese Rocks

Well, me, I'm lying here, with nothing in my ears
Me, I'm lying here, with nothing in my ears
Me, I'm lying here, for what seems years
I'm just lying on my bed with nothing in my head

Send that stuff on down to me
Send that stuff on down to me
Send that stuff on down to me
Send that stuff on down to me

There she goes, my beautiful world
There she goes, my beautiful world
There she goes, my beautiful world
There she goes again

Karl Marx squeezed his carbuncles
while writing Das Kapital
And Gaugin, he buggered off, man,
and went all tropical
While Philip Larkin stuck it out
in a library in Hull
And Dylan Thomas died drunk in
St. Vincent's hospital

I will kneel at your feet
I will lie at your door
I will rock you to sleep
I will roll on the floor
And I'll ask for nothing
Nothing in this life
I'll ask for nothing
Give me ever-lasting life

I just want to move the world
I just want to move the world
I just want to move the world
I just want to move

There she goes, my beautiful world
There she goes, my beautiful world
There she goes, my beautiful world
There she goes again

So if you got a trumpet, get on your feet,
brother, and blow it
If you've got a field, that don't yield,
well get up and hoe it
I look at you and you look at me and
deep in our hearts know it
That you weren't much of a muse,
but then I weren't much of a poet

I will be your slave
I will peel you grapes
Up on your pedestal
With your ivory and apes
With your book of ideas
With your alchemy
O Come on
Send that stuff on down to me

[camus]

Home thoughts from abroad by Clifford T Ward.

Robert Browning poem, also lovely song, can't find the lyrics online anywhere!

[cameron]

Spooky.

Last week a friend sent me the Nick Cave CD single containing 'There She Goes, My Beautiful world' which I will now go and listen to!

C

[POLYLOGICK]

Bruce Dickinson's modified version of the preface to "Milton" by Blake on his solo album "Chemical Wedding" entitled "Jerusalem".

Jim Morrison used lines from Blake's "Auguries of Innocence" in the Doors' "End of the Night".

Ozzy Osbourne's "Mr. Crowley". Aleister Crowley wrote a great amount of poetry.

[Clive]

Cam - How could you forget 'Rave on John Donne' by Van the Man? - Also 'My Blakean Year' from my 2004 album of the year, 'Trampin' by Patti Smith.

[cameron]

Doh!

Indeed a song full of poets:

Rave on Walt Whitman nose down in wet grass.....

Rave on Omar Khayyam......

Rave on Mr Yeats.......

Rave on.....

Rave on....

C
PS We'll have to get Mr Wood online sometime. Perhaps if I say something rude about Michael Chapman, like: "He's an old giffer who couldn't carry a tune in a bucket!" - it'll get him fired up.

[Clive]

How dare you not recognise the poetry in 'Dog's Got More Sense' or 'She Came in like the 6.15'!!!! Michael C rocks!

[Clive]

Patti Smith - various mentions of RIMBAUD in 'Land'

[lemur]

Tori Amos' 'Butterfly', on Plath, loosely

[camus]

Mike Scott of the Waterboys wrote a cracker, I think it was a Yeats poem put to music, but i can't remember where I heard it or what album it was from, or even the poem.

Just looked it up "The Stolen child" from Fisherman's Blues, beaut.

[k-j]

Do you mean "Love and Death", from the Dream Harder LP? If so I totally agree - see my post here:
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[camus]

Mmmmmmmmmmmm, well did Yeats write a poem called "The Stolen child ?" if so then that is definitely the one.

I Had Fisherman's blues for a while then lent it out and haven't seen it since.

I'm not aware of Love and Death.

http://www.online-literature.com/yeats/816/

Yes definite, superb, In fact i'm off to download it this minute.

[k-j]

I'm not aware of Love and Death.

You need to be - it's a cracker. http://www.spinfo.uni-koeln.de/~dm/laughlin.html.

Don't know if you've seen this:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/de ... 4?v=glance. I keep meaning to get a copy.