Set to the Music

If you love traditional and original music, this one's for you! Keats, Kipling, Longfellow, and women poets who deserve to be better known, all set to the music of traditional and original tunes. The great mystery of the sea inspires poets, musicians, and artists of all kinds. This collection of maritime poets from the Age of Sail includes fifteen traditional and original settings of Benjamin Franklin, John Keats, Adelaide Procter, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Celia Thaxter, Edward Lear, E. Pauline Johnson, Lawrence Durrell, John Masefield, Cicely Fox-Smith, and Rudyard Kipling. The works are presented in chronological order of publication, to illustrate the changing flow of nautical imagery from 1718 to 1924. Set to the music, the poems come alive like a boat in the water once you have steamed the planks of the tune over the textual frame.