Next we hear a bit of Vernon Dahhart’s 1927 ballad, “The Wreck of the Royal Palm,” describing an accident that had happened near Rockmart, Georgia the previous year. Other folk songs including gruesome railroad deaths are then explored. Sala for an 1855 edition of the magazine, Household Words, published by Charles Dickens (whose railroad connections we’ll be discussing). Karswell begins our show reading an imaginitive description of a phantom train written by George A. Ghost trains and real-life railway terrors intermingle in this episode’s exploration of old train-wreck ballads, nervous and funereally obsessed Victorians, urban legends involving train deaths, and more. Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 52:34 - 60.2MB) “Sigismunda Mourning over the Heart of Guiscardo 1759 William Hogarth This was likely the source of Cabestaing’s vida, Boccaccio’s stories, and the English-Scottish ballad, “ Lady Diamond,” from which we also hear a snippet. We also look at the Ley of ’Ignaure, a chivalric romance written by the Burgundian French author, Renaud de Beaujeu, probably around the year 1200. Incidentally, our Valentine’s Day show from last year also explores another gruesome tale from The Decameron.ĭe Cabestaing was an actual historical figure, a Catalan ministrel, whose fictional vida (biography) was often attached to collections of his ballads and served as Boccaccio’s inspiration. The second half examines two gruesome narratives taken from the 14th century, both from Giovanni Boccaccio’s The Decameron, namely that of the ill-fated lovers Ghismonda & Guiscardo (First Story, Day Four) and of the tragic romantic exploits of Guilhem de Cabestaing (Ninth story, Day Four). Louis Fournier’s “The Funeral of Shelley,” 1889. The first half of our episode looks at the strange circumstance surrounding the death, in 1822, of Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, and the postmortem keepsake inherited by his wife Mary Shelley. Whether freshly removed or strangely preserved after death, the dead lover’s heart occasionally has continued to be embraced as a repository of intensely shared romantic experience. This Valentine’s Day episode explores two different narratives touching on that theme: a historical tale from the 19th-century literary culture of England and a collection of related medieval legends, literature, and song. Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Spotify | Android | Stitcher | Podchaser | Email | RSS | More Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 50:25 - 57.7MB)
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
Details
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |