Good Stories, Creative Nonfiction, Music, and Poems About Sleep
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Dale Nelson (IP Logged)
Date: 8 September, 2021 10:52PM
Slowly reading de la Mare’s Behold, This Dreamer,, which I don’t think anyone else is reading, suggested the bibliographic thread indicated by the thread title. Even passages relevant to the topic embedded in longer works will be OK. Pool our knowledge?
Sleep and dreams are not the same, but it would be tough to exclude dreams from a sleep topic. On the other hand maybe we can usually omit items about elaborate dreams where the element of sleep is negligible. I violate this guideline below. But I’d rule out, for example, all of Dunsany’s so-called “dreamer’s tales.â€
Two musical works I like:
A composition credited to Trebor called “En seumeillant†on disc 2 of a 2-CD set by Sour Cream that’s called The Passion of Reason. I think you can find this track on YouTube. It seems to me more like music from Lothlorien in Tolkien’s LOTR than anything else I have heard.
Edmund Rubbra’s orchestration of “His Dreame†from Giles Farnaby. It’s from Rubbra’s Opus 50, Improvisations on Virginal Pieces by Giles Farnaby. I have this on a Naxos CD.
For a poem, “The Sea-Bell†by Tolkien from The Adventures of Tom Bombadil. In the book’s introduction this poem is said to be from a manuscript that labels it “Frodos Dreme.†It is related to “dark and despairing†dreams he suffered after his return to the Shire. I suppose it’s not a good choice for this topic because the sleep-element doesn’t even appear in the poem. But if you’ve never read it, you may have a special discovery. Tolkien has been recorded reading it.
It seems to me Philip K. Dick wrote a relevant story called “I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon.â€
Artworks, not of dreams, but of sleepers? Leighton’s Flaming June?
So how about it, ED folk?
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 8 Sep 21 | 11:07PM by Dale Nelson.