Listen "Ice Rhymes"

Episode Synopsis

References of the literary works read in the following order:
Christina Rossetti, "Winter"
PrincessShikishi,  “Winter” (Zenshû 259) 
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
Robert Frost, "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" 
Mikhail Lermontov, "Winter Road” 
Thomas Hood, "The Frost Spirit"
Victor Hugo, "L'hiver"
Carl Spitteler, "Winternacht"
F. Scott Fitzgerald, “The Ice Palace”
Selma Lagerlöf, "The Wind Witch in Närke"
Li Qingzhao, "The Plum Flower"
Kobayashi Issa, "A Winter Moon"
Gabriela Mistral, "Nieve"
Mikhail Lermontov
Selma Lagerlöf, "The North Wind's Lullaby"
John Keats, "To Hope"
John Clare, "Winter Landscape"
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, "Winternacht"
Charles Baudelaire, "Le Balcon"
Robert Burns, "Afton Water"
Federico García Lorca, "Ballad of the Moon in the Gypsy Quarter"
Wang We, "Deer Enclosure"
Li Bai, “Long Yearning”
Wang Zhihuan, "Climbing the Yellow Crane Tower"
Li Bai, "Drinking Alone Under the Moon"
Li Qingzhao, "Slow Song"
Federico García Lorca, "The Silent Frost"
Kim Sowol, "Frozen River"
Han Yong-un, "Crane"
Jeong Cheol, "Winter's Beauty"
Draumkvedet, Norwegian ballad
Edith Södergran, “Forest Lake”
Tomas Tranströmer, "Midvinternsviter"
Alexander Pushkin, “Eugene Onegin”
Fyodor Tyutchev, “Vernal Waters”
Marina Tsvetaeva, “Prayer”
Federico García Lorca, "Ice Flowers"
Alfred Tennyson, "The Crystal Palace"
Du Fu, "Spring Prospect"
Robert Frost, "Ice-Candles"


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