If music be the food of love, play on, quoth the poet. It's the season of love, and we're playing on with music and food and poetry in a special pre-Valentine's Day edition of The Mark Steyn Show.
~First, the poetry: If you've enjoyed Mark's Sunday versifying, here are a couple of romantic bonuses from his favorite love poems.
~Next, the food: At Christmas Mark enjoyed a delicious bootleg bûche de Noël from his favorite patissiers - Denis and Agnès of the boulangerie Owl's Bread in Magog, Quebec. Many viewers enjoyed it, too. So we thought we'd ask Denis back to prepare a special dish sure to seduce your loved one on St Valentine's Day.
~Then, the music: You don't want to mess around come Valentine's. So Mark invited his compatriot, the acclaimed singer/pianist Carol Welsman, to perform two of the all-time greatest love songs with the Mark Steyn Show band.
~The love? Ah, but you have to supply that yourself... Click below to watch:
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Deborah Stoldt
What a wonderful pot-pourri of poetry, bon appétit and rhapsody!
There is a quite a contrast between the poetess with her comparative love and the male poet who triumphs Carpe diem (the original Horace and his pluck the day). Rossetti seems the natural heiress (among the pre-Raphaelites) of Percy Bysshe Shelley romanticism, but her imagery is bold and spiritual at the same time. She edges out Elizabeth Barrett Browning as my favored English poetess, mostly because her poetry is innately musical.
I'd not heard of George Etherege, and I thank you for the introduction. Most enjoyable is his direct tone, matched by tender sentiment.
Chowder is hearty, made of the good stuff; whereas soup is at times thin makings of whatever is left over. You probably know this French expression, cracher dans la soupe, which pretty much expresses the crybabies of the Left worldwide.
I wish sometimes the Right would sling some chowder at the ingrates, but it would be a tremendous waste of quality ingredients!