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Grandfather Rock: The New Poetry & the Old

Author: David Morse

Publication date: 1972

Delacorte Press

One chapter of this book compares Robert Hunter's lyrics for Casey Jones with the anonymous poem Joseph Mica.

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Rock lyrics can aptly be paired with their counterparts in classical poetry, showing that poetry and rock are both based on the need to express human emotion. Thus, Shelley's 'England In 1819' and Dylan's ' Masters Of War' rage together against the old men who make the wars; WHitman's 'To The Garden The World' and Joni Mitchell's 'Woodstock' each suggest a 'sense of cycle and of resurrection'; and Arnold's 'Dover Beach' and Leonard Cohen's 'Suzanne' portray a world in which nothing of value remains except love in its questionable variations. Clearly the old and the new address themselves to the same ideas and emotions and, in soing, speak to each other for all time.
The contents are:
  • Tales of Brave Ulysses - Eric Clapton and Martin Sharp
  • The Sirens' Song - Homer
  • Story of Isaac - Leonard Cohen
  • The Parable of the Old Men and the Young - Wilfred Owen
  • From the Underworld - Howard Blaikley
  • Orpheus and Eurydice - Ovid
  • Four and Twenty - Stephen Stills
  • To the Reader - Charles Baudelaire
  • Suzanne - Leonard Cohen
  • Dover Beach - Matthew Arnold
  • Albatross - Judy Collins
  • Patterns - Amy Lowell
  • In My Life - John Lennon and Paul McCartney
  • The Old Familiar Faces - Charles Lamb
  • Casey Jones - Robert Hunter
  • Joseph Mica - Anonymous
  • Bishop Cody's Last Request, Tom Paxton
  • The Bishop Orders His Tomb at Saint Praxed's Church - Robert Browning
  • Masters of War - Bob Dylan
  • England in 1819 - Percy Bysshe Shelley
  • The Fool on the Hill - John Lennon and Paul McCartney
  • The Dawn - William Butler Yeats
  • The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill - John Lennon and Paul McCartney
  • Buffalo Bill's - E.E. Cummings
  • Pictures of a City - Robert Fripp and Peter Sinfield
  • London - William Blake
  • The Observation - Donovan Leitch
  • Ye Hasten to the Grave! - Percy Bysshe Shelley
  • Bad Moon Rising - John Fogerty
  • A Dirge - Percy Bysshe Shelley
  • Stories of the Street - Leonard Cohen
  • The Second Coming - William Butler Yeats
  • The King Must Die - Bernie Taupin
  • The Death of Kings - William Shakespeare
  • Father of Night
  • Bob Dylan
  • Song of Myself (22) - Walt Whitman
  • Woodstock - Joni Mitchell
  • To the Garden the World - Walt Whitman
  • We Can be Together - Paul Kantner
  • Song of Myself (24) - Walt Whitman
  • Wooden Ships - David Crosby, Paul Kantner . Stephen Stills
  • Asia's Song - Percy Bysshe Shelley
  • New Morning - Bob Dylan
  • Song - Robert Browning
  • Dawn is a Feeling - Mike Pinder
  • The Dream (Part 1) - Lord Byron
  • Chelsea Morning - Joni Mitchell
  • The Morning Watch - Henry Vaughn
  • Cactus Tree - Joni Mitchell
  • Unthrifty Loveliness (sonnet IV) - William Shakespeare
  • Gypsy Eyes - Jimi Hendrix
  • Sweet and Twenty - William Shakespeare
  • I Think I Understood/ Joni Mitchell
  • Our Journey Had Advanced - Emily Dickinson
  • Strawberry Fields Forever - John Lennon and Paul McCartney
  • The Lotus Eaters (Choric Songs 3 and 4) - Alfred, Lord Tennyson
  • She Wandered Through the Garden Fence - Keith Reid
  • The Mental Traveller - William Blake
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