by Eunice Tietjens, née Hammond (1884 - 1944)
Poetics
Language: English
While two ladies of the Imperial harem held before him a screen of pink silk, and a P'in Concubine knelt with his ink-slab, Li Po, who was very drunk, wrote an impassioned poem to the moon.
Authorship:
- by Eunice Tietjens, née Hammond (1884 - 1944), "Poetics", from Profiles from China, first published 1917 [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Peggy Glanville-Hicks (1912 - 1990), "Poetics", 1945, published 1951 [mezzo-soprano and piano; or tenor, piano, string quartet, and contrabass], from Profiles from China, no. 1. [text not verified]
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
This text was added to the website: 2008-08-12
Line count: 4
Word count: 36