I'm very happy to introduce the sixth title in the Grammaticus Free Library series. This one is very short indeed — only several pages long — but it's very lovely in its description of spring.
‘Now Is the Month of Maying’ by Thomas Morley
In this post we’ll travel to the time of the English Renaissance, with a jolly little music piece written by Thomas Morley. A contemporary of William Shakespeare, Morley (1557–1602) was a true Renaissance figure: a composer, organist, music theorist… It was largely thanks to him that the Italian madrigals became so popular in England, adding …
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‘In April’ by Rainer Maria Rilke
The poem presented in this post is titled ‘In April’. Written by the celebrated Austrian poet Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926), it was first published in 1902, in the collection of poems The Book of Images (orig. Das Buch der Bilder). Rainer Maria Rilke Rilke was known and is still much appreciated for his way with …
‘Spring Storm’ by William Carlos Williams
William Carlos Williams (1883–1963) was one of the most important American poets of the 20th century: a modernist of the imagist kind, he was known for using simple and colloquial language to express his ideas—a feature many critics now consider typical of modern American poetry. This can be contrasted with the modernists such as T. …
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