The original version of this article first appeared on the website of the Rimbaud and Verlaine Foundation in 2021. All the pictures are from my own collection. Hooligans are not normally associated with classical music. Concert halls tend to be… Read More ›
poetry
‘A Match’: Swinburne in Paris, Richard Monckton Milnes, “William Blake”, and Wagner’s “Tannhäuser”
2020-12-04_12-39-13-4 The first two stanzas of A Match by Jeremiah Rhodes, published in 1868. Swinburne’s poem ‘A Match’ from his 1866 collection Poems and Ballads would become one of his most popular lyrics and the poem most often set to… Read More ›