Sonnets and Songs


Lu par Bruce Kachuk

Arthur Upson's insightful and sensitive poetic art is grandly displayed in this selection of some of his best work. As a tribute to Upson, Ruth Shepard Phelps proclaims in the introductory poem of this volume, "And all the rare and lovely things that are / Bloom newly now to celebrate thy name." Indeed "rare and lovely" are apt concepts to describe the nature of Upson's work, his poems being conceived by a man with a quest, with a passion for meaning, a man "fain to know / What are humanity and human fate". Upson is a grand poet, an "explorer of a star / Where all is strange", and although his poet's determination is mired in "phantom days, each one / The shadow of a hope", he is determined to continue his fervent search for meaning, despite realizing that, "Slow-tongued Experience teaches me to bear / On lips more patient Love's impatient prayer."

Just as Upson's talent faces no diminishment by the "phantom days" that surround him, neither is his poetic skill encumbered by its mandatory human incarnation - an incarnation of which the poet is intensely aware, intensely affected by, and which compels him to produce works of insight and earthly resonance to transform his quest for a search for meaning, for truth, and for a comprehension and enactment of the power of love. This is the essence of the current that runs through this collection and is manifested in each of these magnificent poems, resulting in an uplifting volume of inspiring readability and rousing introspective depth.
- Summary by Bruce Kachuk (0 hr 55 min)

Chapitres

Dedication by Arthur Upson; Introductory Poem and Note by Ruth Shepard Phelps 2:13 Lu par Bruce Kachuk
After a Dolmetsch Concert 0:58 Lu par Bruce Kachuk
The Earth-Errand 1:25 Lu par Bruce Kachuk
"Vers La Vie" 1:14 Lu par Bruce Kachuk
Phantom Life 0:38 Lu par Bruce Kachuk
"At The Hill's Top Bides Love" 1:07 Lu par Bruce Kachuk
Love's Patience 1:20 Lu par Bruce Kachuk
A Motive out of Lohengrin 1:19 Lu par Bruce Kachuk
My Song Must Not Forsake Me 1:15 Lu par Bruce Kachuk
The Lake 1:01 Lu par Bruce Kachuk
Absence and Presence 0:51 Lu par Bruce Kachuk
A Song of Love and Your Dreams 0:50 Lu par Bruce Kachuk
The Mystery of Beauty 2:08 Lu par Bruce Kachuk
The Tragic Winds 1:34 Lu par Bruce Kachuk
To a Picture of My Mother as a Girl 0:42 Lu par Bruce Kachuk
Song of Agamede (From "The City") 0:59 Lu par Bruce Kachuk
The Sobbing Woman 1:18 Lu par Bruce Kachuk
The Incurables 1:19 Lu par Bruce Kachuk
Chorus (From "The City ") 2:27 Lu par Bruce Kachuk
Arlington 1:15 Lu par Bruce Kachuk
Between Hingham and Braintree 1:46 Lu par Bruce Kachuk
Wheat Elevators 1:16 Lu par Bruce Kachuk
From "Octaves in an Oxford Garden" 7:11 Lu par Bruce Kachuk
Minstrels in Bloomsbury 1:09 Lu par Bruce Kachuk
Thought of Stevenson 1:19 Lu par Bruce Kachuk
After Reading "The Golden Treasury" in the Green Park 1:19 Lu par Bruce Kachuk
On the Lower Rhine 1:20 Lu par Bruce Kachuk
Souvenance de Liège 1:16 Lu par Bruce Kachuk
After Reading an Old Comedy 1:15 Lu par Bruce Kachuk
After Reading "An Italian Garden" 1:51 Lu par Bruce Kachuk
Chorus (From "The City") 1:08 Lu par Bruce Kachuk
Golden Rod 1:16 Lu par Bruce Kachuk
In October 1:16 Lu par Bruce Kachuk
When Roseleaves Fall 1:09 Lu par Bruce Kachuk
Springtide of the Soul 2:29 Lu par Bruce Kachuk
"Ex Libris" 1:14 Lu par Bruce Kachuk
When the Song is Done 0:58 Lu par Bruce Kachuk