County sets wind farm rules Oct 31, 2008
But -- with apologies to poet Christina Rossetti -- it's hard to ignore parts of a 300-foot-tall, 457,000-pound turbine on their way to a future wind farm as the trucks rumble by. The Natrona County Commission recently approved emergency regulations in anticipation of commercial wind farms, according to county development director Blair Leist. (Casper Star-Tribune, WY)
First lady of scandal Aug 2, 2008
The 80 per cent sales plummet between first and second albums can be partly explained by the fact that No Promises comprised a selection of poems set to music and that the poems were by English-language poets such as W.B. Yeats, W.H. Auden, Christina Rossetti, Emily Dickinson and Walter de la Mare, about as sizeable a transgression as one could make in such a fiercely francophone culture. Not that Bruni is French by birth, anyway. (Sydney Morning Herald)
Carla Bruni as member of a dead poets society Feb 12, 2008
Nevertheless, Bruni, who married Nicolas Sarkozy this month, drew her inspiration from Parker - as well as Emily Dickinson, W.H. Auden, Christina Rossetti, Walter de la Mare and Yeats - in an album that topped the pop charts last year in France and is being released in the United States. The album, "No Promises," features Bruni's smoky, French-accented voice half-singing and half-talking the English words of the poets to the accompaniment of her own music. (International Herald Tribune)
Stuck on biography's foggy collision course Oct 30, 2007
" So says Virginia Woolf in an autobiographical fragment written a few months before her suicide. I hope to persuade you that Woolf was right on all counts: that real lives are too shifting and multiple to be told; that we suppress that knowledge because we have what I take to be an evolutionary need for stories, and that this embarrassing, damaging passion to fathom our own and others' lives is the best hope for humankind. One "experience" that persuades Woolf that a life cannot be told is... (Sydney Morning Herald -- Opinion)
Q&A: curriculum reform Jul 12, 2007
The issue explained: Secondary school curriculum reform. Donald MacLeod looks at what 11 to 14-year-old pupils can expect to learn under the latest reforms to the secondary school curriculum. (Guardian Unlimited -- UK)
Juicy fruit and other pleasures at Goblin Market May 22, 2007
Written by Christina Rossetti ... Actors Maev Beaty and Erin Shields under choreographer Allison Cummings have brought Christina Rossetti's famous 1859 poem to life by transforming the work into a brilliant dance/theatre/performance-art installation that is as whimsical as it is disturbing. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
'Land of Heart's Desire' Apr 6, 2007
The poetry of Federico Lorca and his "Canciones de la Luna" are the basis of Kingsbury's "Murio al Amanecar," "La Tarde Canta" and "La Luna Asoma." Kingsbury also has set to music the poetry of Christina Rossetti and Barry Kraft and several Native American texts. A native of Los Angeles, bass-baritone Kingsbury has been active for many years as a professional singer. (Mail Tribune, OR)
It's official: Spring is here Mar 22, 2007
Christina Rossetti wrote her poem, "Spring Quiet," in the 19th century. Those similarly wishing for the hasty retreat of cold, dreary days finally have reason to celebrate: At last, the first day of spring is here. (Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier)
Her father's voice Mar 11, 2007
How many of these poems can be read for pleasure by the lover of Samuel Taylor Coleridge or Christina Rossetti rather than merely for study by the student enrolled on a course in Victorian women of letters. Swaab takes a high-risk strategy, beginning his introduction with three stanzas beneath the unpromising title "Doggrel Charm: to a little lump of malignity, on being medically assured that it was not a fresh growth, but an old growth splitting." He compares it to Harold Pinter's poetic... (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
Lighten your baggage in Warren Mar 5, 2007
Munching on chocolate bourbon balls while reading "Up-Hill" by Christina Rossetti (1861) was sublime. A walk in stillness Just before dusk one day, we put on our walking shoes and found a lonely country road that cut through fields of snow under a gray-flannel sky. (Boston Globe)
Teachers fight back over classics Feb 17, 2007
QCA LIST OF CLASSIC AUTHORS Jane Austen, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, William Blake, Charlotte Brnte, Robert Burns, Geoffrey Chaucer, Kate Chopin, John Clare, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Charles Dickens, Arthur Conan Doyle, George Eliot, Thomas Gray, Thomas Hardy, John Keats, John Masefield, Alexander Pope, Christina Rossetti, William Shakespeare (sonnets), Mary Shelley, Robert Louis Stevenson, Jonathan Swift, Alfred Lord Tennyson, HG Wells, Oscar Wilde, Dorothy Wordsworth and William Wordsworth.... (BBC News -- UK)
[Kaleidoscope]The answer is not blowin' in the wind Feb 14, 2007
"Who has seen the wind?/" sings poetess Christina Rossetti. "Neither I nor you/ But when the leaves hang trembling/ The wind is passing thro'./ Who has seen the wind?/ Neither you nor I/ But when the trees bow down their heads/ The wind is passing by." Unlike the poetess's gentle, invisible breeze that one can only feel by the trembling leaves and swaying boughs, the winds sweeping through the Korean Peninsula have always been too strong and overwhelming, often radically altering the terrain of... (Korea Herald, Korea)
Auden and Yeats go pop Jan 20, 2007
Their poems along with those by two other Britons, Walter de la Mare and Christina Rossetti, and two Americans, Dorothy Parker and Emily Dickinson are likely to enter the Top Ten in France and Germany next week. After being set to music by Carla Bruni, the former fashion model, they could even make No 1, according to the Paris-based record company Naive. (TimesOnline)
