Dove, Rita.
New York : W.W. Norton & Co., c2009.
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Notes:
- Prologues: Bridgetower — Prologue of the rambling sort. Prodigy: (Re)naissance — Capriccio — Friedrich Augustus Bridgetower discovers the purposes of fatherhood — Lines whispered to a pillow — Recollection, preempted — Paris, panting — What doesn’t happen — Windsor — Mrs. Papendiek’s diary (1) — Marine Pavilion, Brighthelmston — Wardrobe lesson — Mrs. Papendiek’s diary (2) — Seaside concerts — Disappearance. Bread & butter, turbans & chinoiserie: Hear ye! — Lesson: adagio — Black pearl — Ode to the moon — Janissary rap — Concert at Hanover Square — Pulling the organ stops — Black Billy Waters, at his pitch — Haydn, overheard — Mrs. Papendiek’s diary (3) — Dressing — African prince sings songs of love — Abandoned, again — Mrs. Papendiek’s diary (4) — Transaction — Undressing — Ode on a Negress head clock, with eight tunes — Intermezzo — Tafelmusik (1) — Brothers in spring — Salomon concerts — Haydn leaves London — Seduction against exterior pilaster, waning gibbous — Pretty boy — New century aubade. Sturm und drang: Petition — To the continent — Old world lullaby — Floating requiem — Ach, wien — Ludwig van Beethoven’s return to Vienna — First contact — Vienna spring — Polgreen, sight-reading — Beethoven summons his copyist — Augarten, 7 AM — Performer. Volkstheater: a short play for the common man: Georgie Porgie, or A Moor in Vienna. All is ashes: Tail tucked — Rain — Esterhaza, prodigal — Home again — Eroica — Tafelmusik (2) — Countess shares confidences over Karneval chocolate — Andante con Variazioni — Haydn serenades the Napoleonic Honor Guard — Regency fete — Cambridge, Great St. Mary’s Church — Panopticon — Last Frost Fair. Nomadia: Half-life — Life in London, now playing at the Adelphi — Moor with emeralds — Vanities — Haydn’s head — Birthday stroll on the Pall Mall — Staffordshire figurine, 1825 — Nomadia — Self-eulogy — #8 Victory Cottages, Peckham, 1860 — Witness. Epilogues: Queen’s wardrobe keeper — All that jazz — Composer’
Subjects:
- Bridgetower, George Augustus Polgreen — Poetry.
- Beethoven, Ludwig van, 1770-1827 — Poetry.
- Racially mixed people — Poetry.
- American poetry — 21st century.
- Poetry marcgt
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