福斯特對克拉布筆下東安格利亞海岸地方風貌的深刻洞察引起了布里頓的共鳴，他從這位孤僻、不被理解的漁夫的故事中看到了藝術潛力。Peter Grimes《彼得‧格萊姆斯》講述的是一位生活在沿海小鎮的漁夫的故事。他逐漸被鎮上的人們懷疑，並遭到排斥。. Britten and EM Forster: A meeting of minds on the high seas 《彼得·格萊姆斯》本身就是一部傑作，講述了一個漁夫被指控殺害學徒的故事，著重探討了社會排斥、群體心理以及殘酷無情的大海等主題。
Peter Grimes is the story of a fisherman in a small coastal town, who becomes increasingly ostracized from the seaside community when he becomes the subject of ...Read more
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E.M. Forster’s
1941 article about Suffolk poet George Crabbe played a pivotal role in inspiring Benjamin Britten to create the opera Peter Grimes. By highlighting Crabbe’s poem "The Borough," which depicted the brutal fisherman, Forster helped prompt Britten and Peter Pears to return to England from exile and adapt the story.
Connection to the Opera: The article, often titled "George Crabbe: The Poet and the Man," prompted Britten to read "The Borough" in 1941, leading to the creation of the 1945 opera.
Significance: Forster’s insights into the local color of the East Anglian coast, as described by Crabbe, resonated with Britten, who saw artistic potential in the story of the isolated, misunderstood fisherman.
The Content: Forster’s writing deepened the understanding of the source material—the harsh, judgmental community (the "Borough") and the troubled,, often cruel, character of Grimes.
Legacy: The essay is sometimes included in publications related to the opera’s history and libretto.
Peter Grimes itself is a masterpiece about a fisherman accused of killing his apprentices, focusing on themes of social rejection, mob mentality, and the harsh, unforgiving sea.
Peter Grimes is the story of a fisherman in a small coastal town, who becomes increasingly ostracized from the seaside community when he becomes the subject of ...Read more
AI Overview
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E.M. Forster’s
1941 article about Suffolk poet George Crabbe played a pivotal role in inspiring Benjamin Britten to create the opera Peter Grimes. By highlighting Crabbe’s poem "The Borough," which depicted the brutal fisherman, Forster helped prompt Britten and Peter Pears to return to England from exile and adapt the story.
Connection to the Opera: The article, often titled "George Crabbe: The Poet and the Man," prompted Britten to read "The Borough" in 1941, leading to the creation of the 1945 opera.
Significance: Forster’s insights into the local color of the East Anglian coast, as described by Crabbe, resonated with Britten, who saw artistic potential in the story of the isolated, misunderstood fisherman.
The Content: Forster’s writing deepened the understanding of the source material—the harsh, judgmental community (the "Borough") and the troubled,, often cruel, character of Grimes.
Legacy: The essay is sometimes included in publications related to the opera’s history and libretto.
Peter Grimes itself is a masterpiece about a fisherman accused of killing his apprentices, focusing on themes of social rejection, mob mentality, and the harsh, unforgiving sea.
Peter Grimes, Op. 33, is an opera in three acts by Benjamin Britten, with a libretto by Montagu Slater based on the section "Peter Grimes", in George ...Read more
May 6, 2010 — Forster's wish to write a "grand opera" led Britten to suggest Herman Melville's final work – Billy Budd, Sailor. A meeting was set up in January 1949.Read more
Peter Grimes is the story of a fisherman in a small coastal town, who becomes increasingly ostracized from the seaside community when he becomes the subject of its suspicions.
Who composed Peter Grimes?
English composer Benjamin Britten composed Peter Grimes, inspired by poet George Crabbe’s narrative poem The Borough.
What is the most famous music from Peter Grimes?
The Four Seas Interludes is an independent suite made up of the first, third, fifth and second interludes from Britten’s opera, with the respective titles: ‘Dawn’, ‘Sunday Morning’, ‘Moonlight’ and ‘Storm’.
What is the poem ‘Peter Grimes’ based on?
Geroge Crabbe’s ‘Peter Grimes’ section (Letter XXII) of his narrative poem The Borough is a fictional account of a character, Grimes, who is socially cast out of the ‘borough’. The poem is made up of 24 letters, each illustrating different aspects of the small fictional fishing village.
Where is Peter Grimes set?
Like Crabbe’s poem, Britten’s Peter Grimes is set in a small coastal town that bears resemblance to the composer’s own home in Aldeburgh, Suffolk, off the east coast of England.
赫爾曼·梅爾維爾（1819-1891）在短篇小說和中篇小說展現出一種精湛的技藝和細膩的筆觸，在某些方面甚至比《白鯨》中宏大而震撼的情感更令人印象深刻。在《抄寫員巴特比》這樣的故事中——這篇作品堪稱英語文學中該體裁的完美典範——他以毫不妥協的精準、洞察力和同理心，描繪了主人公極度疏離的內心世界。在《貝尼托·塞雷諾》中，他以深刻而近乎超現實的想像力，清楚地探討了十九世紀重大的種族困境。在梅爾維爾晚年的傑作《比利、巴德、水手》中，他將畢生創作積累的知識和技藝融會貫通，創作出一個純粹、冷峻、結構完美的短篇故事，講述了純真被背叛和毀滅的故事。梅爾維爾的史詩般宏大的構思固然令人稱道，但他筆下的抒情，以及對細微之處、特殊情境和地域特色的描繪，同樣令人嘆為觀止。點擊此處閱讀更多：http:// Today is the 125th anniversary of the death of Herman Melville. “Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its jagged edges.” ―from "Billy Budd, Sailor"
Herman Melville died in New York City on this day in 1891 (aged 72).
“Who in the rainbow can draw the line where the violet tint ends and the orange tint begins? Distinctly we see the difference of the colors, but where exactly does the one first blendingly enter into the other? So with sanity and insanity.” ―from "Billy Budd, Sailor"
Herman Melville (1819-91) brought as much genius to the smaller-scale literary forms as he did to the full-blown novel: his poems and the short stories and novellas collected in this volume reveal a deftness and a delicacy of touch that is in some ways even more impressive than the massive, tectonic passions of Moby-Dick. In a story like "Bartleby, the Scrivener" -- one of the very few perfect representatives of the form in the English language -- he displayed an unflinching precision and insight and empathy in his depiction of the drastically alienated inner life of the title character. In "Benito Cereno," he addressed the great racial dilemmas of the nineteenth century with a profound, almost surreal imaginative clarity. And in Billy, Budd, Sailor, the masterpiece of his last years, he fused the knowledge and craft gained from a lifetime's magnificent work into a pure, stark, flawlessly composed tale of innocence betrayed and destroyed. Melville is justly honored for the epic sweep of his mind, but his lyricism, his skill in rendering the minute, the particular, the local, was equally sublime. READ more here: http://knopfdoubleday.com/…/113148/complete-shorter-fiction/
精彩的摘句只放在"英文人行道"BLOG，可惜。
"The secret of a good old age is simply an honorable pact with solitude." --from ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF SOLITUDE (1967) by Gabriel García Márquez "Reason has discovered the struggle for existence and the law that I must throttle all those who hinder the satisfaction of my desires. That is the deduction reason makes. But the law of loving others could not be discovered by reason, because it is unreasonable." -- from "Anna Karenina" (1875–1877)
"Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges; hence the conclusion of such a narration is apt to be less finished than an architectural finial."放 ―from "Billy Budd, Sailor" from COMPLETE SHORTER FICTION by Herman Melville
"I descended the steps of this fire escape for a last time and followed, from then on, in my father’s footsteps, attempting to find in motion what was lost in space…"--Zachary Quinto in "The Glass Menagerie," in 2013. "There's no more usual basis of union than a mutual misunderstanding." --from "The Portrait of a Lady"
“Nostalgia, as always, had wiped away the bad memories and magnified the good ones. no one was safe from its onslaught.” ―from "Living to Tell the Tale"
EXHIBITION | « Everything vanishes around me, and works are born as if out of the void. » Paul Klee
We will be honoring Herman Melville as the #ClassicsInContext Author of the month for August! Herman Melville was born on August 1, 1819 in New York City. Melville is a renowned American novelist, poet, and short story writer, most notably for 'Moby Dick' and 'Bartleby, the Scrivener.' At the start of his life, he and his family lived in luxury, only to plunge into poverty once his father died shortly after the failure of his import business in 1832. The author later embarked on a whaling voyage in the South Seas that inspired his early novels 'Typee' and 'Omoo.'
Today is Herman Melville’s 200th birthday. For the past century, his fame has known no bounds, his reputation no rest, his life no privacy—something he desperately sought, and found at a farm in the Berkshires.
Happy 200th Birthday to Herman Melville, born on this day in 1819 in New York, NY.
“Consider the subtleness of the sea; how its most dreaded creatures glide under water, unapparent for the most part, and treacherously hidden beneath the loveliest tints of azure. Consider also the devilish brilliance and beauty of many of its most remorseless tribes, as the dainty embellished shape of many species of sharks. Consider, once more, the universal cannibalism of the sea; all whose creatures prey upon each other, carrying on eternal war since the world began.
Consider all this; and then turn to the green, gentle, and most docile earth; consider them both, the sea and the land; and do you not find a strange analogy to something in yourself? For as this appalling ocean surrounds the verdant land, so in the soul of man there lies one insular Tahiti, full of peace and joy, but encompassed by all the horrors of the half-known life. God keep thee! Push not off from that isle, thou canst never return!” ― from MOBY DICK (1851) by Herman Melville
"It is not down in any map; true places never are." Today marks 200 years since the birth of MOBY-DICK author Herman Melville. Learn more about Ahab, Ishmael, and the white whale: http://bit.ly/2Kmro8H
