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P u r c e l l O d e
And Other Poems[ii]
Purcell Ode
And Other Poems
By
Robert Bridges
Chicago
Way & Williams
1896
[iv]
Copyright
By Way & Williams
MDCCCXCVI
University Press:
John Wilson and Son, Cambridge, U. S. A.
[v]
Two Hundred Copies printed on Van Gelder paper.
CONTENTS
| Page | |
| Ode to Music | 29 |
| The Fair Brass | 42 |
| November | 45 |
| The South Wind | 49 |
| Winter Nightfall | 53 |
PREFACE
The words of the Ode as here given differ slightly from those whichappeared with Dr. Parry’s Cantata, sung at the Leeds Festival and at thePurcell Commemoration in London last year.
Since the poem was never perfected as a musical ode,—and I was not inevery particular responsible for it,—I have tried to make it morepresentable to readers, and in so doing have disregarded somewhat itsoriginal intention. But it must still ask indulgence, because it stillbetrays the liberties and restrictions which seemed to me proper in anattempt to meet the requirements of modern music.
It is a current idea that, by adopting a sort of declamatory treatment,it is possible to give[x] to almost any poem a satisfactory musicalsetting;[1] whence it would follow that a non-literary form is aneedless extravagance. From this general condemnation I wish to defendmy poem