Sonnets and Songs


Gelesen von 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)

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