Passionate, astute, concentrated. The poems of Emily Dickinson (1830–86) have marked her out as one of the great American poets and she has been placed by the critic Harold Bloom as a key figure ...
I’ve been thinking a lot about how music and poetry are linked. Did you know that we get the word lyrics from the fact that, in ancient times, poets would say their poems out loud whilst playing ...
Composer Li Yanbing (left) and soprano Wang Zhe pose in a studio in Beijing on Dec 5 after recording music from Li's new album, Cong Cong. CHINA DAILY Set to poetry, and typically performed by a ...