Carl Sandburg's Timeless Prairie: Philip Wharton's Song Cycle, The Prairie Sings
Description:
The connection of music and verse evident in the work of American poet, Carl Sandburg, is a topic that has received inadequate attention. Much preexisting research has focused on Sandburg's work with The American Songbag anthology; however little has been written about music composers' settings of his verse. The relevance of Sandburg's work as a poet has faded in today's society; the rural prairie subject matter and his poetic style are deemed archaic in an ever-evolving mechanistic society. …
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Date:
August 2008
Creator:
Wunderlich, Kristen A.
Partner:
UNT Libraries