I know, I know for a blog called the Talking Oak I have been silent since December. My PhD schedule has been crazy and finding inspiration for blogging when your mind is on academic stuff is really hard. But I have my annual review on Monday so will be back blogging during the lull in studies after that. The good news is my thesis 'The Celticist Infulences of Tennyson' is coming a long really well, I'm really proud of it.
For now though I would like to have a little return to musical versions of The Stolen Child by Yeats that I covered in chapter 6.
Recently a beautiful new version by the fabulous American Cellist/Singer Unwoman as part of a collection of poems put to music.
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have been a fan of her's for a long time and it is really cool to hear
her tackle one of my favourite poems. I also love how different it is to
the versions I have already talked about. It is amazing that the same
words can be used in so many different ways. While maybe not as mornful
as The Waterboys or Loreena McKennitt's versions, there is still a
sinister darkness that befits the intent of the Faeries in the poem.
Take a listen for yourself:
