by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886)
The Spider as an Artist
Language: English
Available translation(s): GER
The Spider as an Artist Has never been employed - Though his surpassing Merit Is freely certified By every Broom and Bridget Throughout a Christian Land - Neglected Son of Genius, I take thee by the Hand.
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Confirmed with The Poems of Emily Dickinson, ed. R.W. Franklin, Volume 3, Cambridge, MA and London, England: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1998, Poem 1373.
Authorship:
- by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886), no title, appears in Poems by Emily Dickinson, first published 1896 [author's text checked 2 times 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 Donald Grantham (b. 1947), "The spider as an artist", published 1983 [ SATB chorus a cappella ], from Seven Choral Settings of Poems by Emily Dickinson [sung text not yet checked]
- by Julian Philips (b. 1969), "The spider", 1997/2002, published 2007 [ high voice and piano ], from An Amherst Bestiary, no. 14, Peters Edition [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- GER German (Deutsch) (Walter A. Aue) , copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 8
Word count: 37