http://www.elsiedeeproject.com/Default.aspx The Elsie Dee Project is dedicated not only to the diffusion of poetry, but also to the exploration of the musical formulas which one could call the 'lowest common denominator'. Copyright 2007 Pierre Voyer and Boyd Williams SOCAN http://www.elsiedeeproject.com/images/Arthur_Michault.jpg http://www.elsiedeeproject.com/Default.aspx en Song 1 - Music by the Elsie Dee Project. Lyrics by Charles d'Orléans. Charles d'Orléans was born in Paris in 1493. Taken prisoner by the English, he lived in England from 1415 to 1440. Back in his homeland, he had an elegant and refined court life in Blois. There he maried Marie de Clèves who gave him the future king of France Louis XII. Since then, this charming rondeau rolls without gathering any moss... Song 2 - Music by the Elsie Dee Project. Lyrics by Charles Algernon Swinburne. Charles Algernon Swinburne was born in London ( England) in 1837. Even if his victorian contemporaries were outraged by his mystical appraoch of morbidity and his unconventional use of sexual imagery, he remains an absolute master of the English meter. Taken from his Hymn to Proserpine Song 3 - Music by the Elsie Dee Project. Lyrics by Paul Verlaine. Paul Verlaine was born in Metz (France) in 1844. Master of the musical verse and of the speech-like tone, his work is as profound as it appears shallow to "seriously" realist critics. Song 4 - Music by the Elsie Dee Project. Lyrics by Gabriel Pariseau. Gabriel Pariseau was born at L'Île Ronde in 1949. His precocious neo-romantic poetry is still very much impregnated with post-modern irony. Something like the tragical fragrance of blue flowers . Song 5 - Music by the Elsie Dee Project. Lyrics byLewis Carroll. Lewis Carroll pseudonyme Charles L. Dodgson, was born in Daresbury in 1832. A celebrated intellectual, he is especially known for Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass. He left many poems including the masterpiece The Hunting of the Snark. Song 6 - Music by the Elsie Dee Project. Lyrics by Arthur Michault. Arthur Michault was born in L'Ile Noire in 1922. Post-dada experimental poet, we tend to see nowadays in his voluntarily opacified "poèmes-machines" a prefiguratioin of punk. Song 7 - Music by the Elsie Dee Project. Lyrics by Gabriel Pariseau. Gabriel Pariseau was born at L'Île Ronde in 1949. His precocious neo-romantic poetry is still very much impregnated with post-modern irony. Something like the tragical fragrance of blue flowers . Song 8 - Music by the Elsie Dee Project. Lyrics by Edward Elstin Cummings. E. E. Cummings was born in Cambridge (Massachusetts) in 1894. His travels to France in the early XXth century nurrished his appetite for modernism. Taking a defenite step away from symbolism, he created an innovative, playfull and nontheless strictly formal poetry. Song 9 - Music by the Elsie Dee Project. Lyrics by Charles Algernon Swinburne. Charles Algernon Swinburne was born in London ( England) in 1837. Even if his victorian contemporaries were outraged by his mystical appraoch of morbidity and his unconventional use of sexual imagery, he remains an absolute master of the English meter. Taken from his tragedy Atalanta in Calydon Song 10 - Music by the Elsie Dee Project. Lyrics by Constantin Cavafy. Constantin Cavafy was born in Alexandria in 1863. Writing in Greek, he shows as much scholarly rigor as Mediterranean sensuality... This song was built starting from a translation in French by Marguerite Yourcenar of the poem entitled: Portrait of a young man of twenty-three years, painted by a comrade of his age, an amateur artist.