Talk:And Did those Feet

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This is one of my favourite poems, especially when set to the music of Parry and Elgar DidThoseFeet 11:20, 9 February 2008 (EST)

It's actually called "Jerusalem"! Only those ignorant of the title would call it otherwise. Blake's poem is part of a longer work about Milton...but it appears in anthologies as "Jerusalem" and as such in CDs, sheet music and Parry work lists etc., Can this be changed please?
(And Elgar had nothing to do with it.) AlanE 16:02, 21 October 2008 (EDT)

Can someone authorise the removal of the anti-Islamic rhetoric from this article? Neutrality, anyone?

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I think the tune is called Jerusalem. Was the poem written before the tune? --Ed Poor Talk 14:57, 24 February 2009 (EST)

Ed, as I wrote, the poem was written in the early 1800s...printed in 1808 according to my copy of his complete works. Also as written, old Sir Hubert wrote the song in 1915 or 16. (For, believe it or not, a political rally).
The song is always called "Jerusalem". Always.
The text is part of "Milton - a Poem in [1] 2 Books. The Author and Printer W. Blake 1804. To Justify the Ways of God to Men". (To quote its full title). Don't ever try reading the full poem - it's mostly incomprehensible! However, in the various anthologies of verse I have, those four verses are always listed as "Jerusalem" as both the heading at the top of the verses themselves and in the "Index of Works". Only in the "Index of first lines" do we find "And did those feet....." (note the lower case 'did' and 'feet').
BTW a London Proms rendition is on the Hubert Parry article. Cheers AlanE 15:54, 24 February 2009 (EST)

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May I ask why Reagan's funeral hymn is suddenly here? It has nothing at all to do with the subject...a different time, country, purpose, culture. Especially as it is plonked down flat bang between the poem and the hymn, separating the two parts of the same subject without any logic or reason that I can see, and even makes part of the text of my description of the song meaningless. Ed...pahleaze! It does not belong here!

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