© by Stéphane Mallarmé (1842 - 1898)
Translation © by Paul Goodman (1911 - 1972)
Vast gulph!
Language: English  after the French (Français)
Vast gulph! carried here in the mass of the mist . . . . . . . . . .— The rest of this text is not
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Authorship:
- by Paul Goodman (1911 - 1972), appears in Empire City, first published 1964, copyright ©
Based on:
- a text in French (Français) by Stéphane Mallarmé (1842 - 1898), "Toast Funèbre", copyright ©
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Ned Rorem (1923 - 2022), "Vast gulph!", 1954-1955 [ soprano, SATB chorus, and orchestra ], from The Poet's Requiem, no. 4, Boosey & Hawkes; note: the text translates words beginning in the middle of the third stanza, 'Vaste gouffre apporté dans l'amas de la brume'
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