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A Stable Lamp Is Lighted
Author: Richard Wilbur, b. 1921 Meter: 7.6.7.6.6.6.7.6 Appears in 19 hymnals Topics: Christmas Season; Kingdom of God Scripture: Luke 2:7 Used With Tune: ANDUJAR
A Stable Lamp Is Lighted
Arise, Your Light Is Come
Author: Ruth Duck Meter: 6.6.8.6 Appears in 21 hymnals First Line: Arise, your light is come! Topics: Advent; Christian Life; Discipleship; Ministry; Mission; Social Concern; Witness Used With Tune: FESTAL SONG
Arise, Your Light Is Come
As Now The Sun Shines Down At Noon
Author: Charles P. Price, b. 1930; Carl P. Daw, b. 1944 Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 2 hymnals Topics: Discipleship; Grace; Life, Christian; Light; Noonday; Pilgrimage Scripture: Joshua 10:13 Used With Tune: JESUS DULCIS MEMORIA
As Now The Sun Shines Down At Noon
FESTAL SONG
Meter: 6.6.8.6 Appears in 188 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: William H. Walter, 1825-1893 First Line: Arise, your light is come! Tune Key: A Major Incipit: 51535 65671 76523 Used With Text: Arise, Your Light Is Come
FESTAL SONG
JESUS DULCIS MEMORIA
Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 39 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Richard Proulx, b. 1937; Randall Sensmeier, b. 1948 First Line: As now the sun shines down at noon Tune Sources: Plainsong Mode 2 Tune Key: a minor Incipit: 22225 76522 31243 Used With Text: As Now The Sun Shines Down At Noon
JESUS DULCIS MEMORIA
A Stable Lamp Is Lighted
Author: Richard Wilbur, b. 1921 Hymnal: HS1991 #728 (1991) Meter: 7.6.7.6.6.6.7.6 Topics: Christmas Season; Kingdom of God Scripture: Luke 2:7 Languages: English Tune Title: ANDUJAR
A Stable Lamp Is Lighted
Arise, Your Light Is Come
Author: Ruth Duck Hymnal: HS1991 #723 (1991) Meter: 6.6.8.6 First Line: Arise, your light is come! Topics: Advent; Christian Life; Discipleship; Ministry; Mission; Social Concern; Witness Languages: English Tune Title: FESTAL SONG
Arise, Your Light Is Come
As Now The Sun Shines Down At Noon
Author: Charles P. Price, b. 1930; Carl P. Daw, b. 1944 Hymnal: HS1991 #784 (1991) Meter: 8.8.8.8 Topics: Discipleship; Grace; Life, Christian; Light; Noonday; Pilgrimage Scripture: Joshua 10:13 Languages: English Tune Title: JESUS DULCIS MEMORIA
As Now The Sun Shines Down At Noon
Richard Wilbur
1921 - 2017 Person Name: Richard Wilbur, b. 1921 First Line: A stable lamp is lighted Hymnal Number: 728 Author of "A Stable Lamp Is Lighted" in Hymnal Supplement 1991 Richard Wilbur was born in New York City on March 1, 1921. He graduated with a B.A. from Amherst, where he was editor of the college newspaper, in 1942. Youthful engagements with leftist causes caught the attention of federal investigators when he was in training as a U.S. Army cryptographer, and he was demoted to a front-line infantry position where he saw action in the field in Italy, France and Germany. (When the cryptographer in Wilbur’s unit was killed, Wilbur also took over that function.) After demobilization, he continued his studies at Harvard where he obtained an M.A. in 1947, the year his first book was published. He was a member of the prestigious Harvard Fellows and taught there until 1954, when he moved to Wellesley and then to Wesleyan University. At Wesleyan he was instrumental in the founding of the acclaimed Wesleyan University Press poetry series that, from 1959 onward, featured new work by such important young poets as Robert Bly, James Wright, James Dickey, and Richard Howard, as well as such already-established writers as Louis Simpson and Barbara Howes. From Wesleyan he went to Smith as writer-in-residence. In 1987 he was named the second Poet Laureate of the U.S., following Robert Penn Warren.
In the postwar years, when poets born between 1920 and 1935 often underwent dramatic changes in their writing styles, Wilbur remained someone who mastered a style early and continued to work within it. It is a style in a direct line of descent from Wallace Stevens: unabashedly rich in its diction, urbane in its metrical sophistication, and remarkably light-hearted and playful. His first and second books, The Beautiful Changes (1947) and Ceremony (1950), were influential volumes, and Wilbur was widely regarded in the 1950s as a poet no less important than Robert Lowell. His third collection, Things of This World (1956), was awarded the Pulitzer Prize. Advice to a Prophet (1961) was followed by Walking to Sleep (1969), which was charlee.jpg (42846 bytes)awarded the Bollingen Prize. The Mind-Reader was published in 1976, and a New and Collected Poems in 1987 (with twenty-four new poems).
"The typical ghastly poem of the fifties was a Wilbur poem not written by Wilbur," wrote Donald Hall in 1961, "a poem with tired wit and obvious comparisons and nothing to keep the mind or the ear occupied." Hall added presciently: "It wasn’t Wilbur’s fault, though I expect he will be asked to suffer for it." Wilbur’s poetry has not, as Hall predicted, retained the high value it had accrued in the postwar years. Although his fame as a translator has continued to grow – his blank verse rhymed-couplet versions of several plays by Moliere have received wide praise – his poetry is often cited as an example of the formalism and the apolitical timidity that is associated with the 1950s. "Wilbur is still admired," Robert von Hallberg notes in his contribution to the Cambridge History of American Literature (1996), "but really as the best poet of the 1950s." Even though he is an outstanding example, he excels in a debased category. Among minor poets he is allowed to be most major, but among major poets he is not even considered the most minor.
A Wilbur poem reads so easily that it can dispel close scrutiny, as if the poem just as it is says all that needs to be said and withholds nothing. (As a result, Wilbur’s work has rarely attracted the attention of the skillful critic.) In fact, the smooth surface of the Wilbur poem can successfully distract us from recognizing how unusual and unexpected are the twists and leaps that structure the poem’s narrative. Many poems by Wilbur, while striking a superficial "balance," implicitly celebrate, while demonstrating, the virtues of a wit that is elaborately playful.
--www.english.illinois.edu/maps/poets/s_z/wilbur/bio.htm
He died on October 14, 2017, at a nursing home in Belmont, Massachusetts.
--Wikipedia
Richard Wilbur
Ruth C. Duck
b. 1947 Person Name: Ruth Duck First Line: Arise, your light is come! Hymnal Number: 723 Author of "Arise, Your Light Is Come" in Hymnal Supplement 1991
Ruth C. Duck
William H. Walter
1825 - 1893 Person Name: William H. Walter, 1825-1893 First Line: Arise, your light is come! Hymnal Number: 723 Composer of "FESTAL SONG" in Hymnal Supplement 1991
William H. Walter
