Michael Craske
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Michael Craske researches transgressive poetics, music, aesthetics, and perhaps transgressive anything at Queen Mary, University of London (but mainly Swinburne, Wagner, and T. S. Eliot). He was once involved in diplomacy, of a Middle Eastern kind...
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Tag Archives: Garden of Proserpine
Song, scandal, and a princess: We are not Sure of Sorrow (1898)
When I started this project, I would not have imagined Swinburne’s languid ‘The Garden of Proserpine’ from Poems and Ballads, First Series (1866) ever inspiring popular music, and certainly not the tone of this piece by Charles Paston-Cooper (1867-1941). Weary … Continue reading
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Tagged atheism, Dolores, Garden of Proserpine, Hawtrey, Hesperia, Paston-Cooper, Poems and Ballads, Swinburne, The Proms, Victorian, Victorian music
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