- Leap of faith
- Dancers from the English National
Ballet perform Le Corsaire, which is based on the poem, The Corsair by
Lord Byron, at the Milton Keynes Theatre in England, UK. (Photo: Ian
Gavan/Getty Images)
- 音節
- cor • sair
- 発音
- kɔ'ːrsεər
- corsairの変化形
- corsairs (複数形)
[名]((古))
1 （アフリカ北岸に出没したイスラム教国の）私掠(しりゃく)船.
2 海賊；（快速）海賊船.
The Corsair is a tale in verse by
Lord Byron published in 1814 (see
1814 in poetry), which was extremely popular and influential in its day, selling ten thousand copies on its first day of sale.
[1] Its poetry, divided into
cantos (as Dante's
Divine Comedy),
narrates the story of the corsair Conrad, how he was in his youth
rejected by society because of his actions and his later fight against
humanity (excepting women). In this tale the figure of Byronic hero is
presented by the point of view of the people. The opera
Il Corsaro by
Giuseppe Verdi, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q--hvPcpUEE
the overture
Le Corsaire by
Hector Berlioz and the ballet
Le Corsaire by
Marius Petipa were based on this work.
archive.org/stream/corsairtale00byrorich/corsairtale00byrorich_djvu.txt
BY LORD BYRON. ... the composition of a poem whose scene will be laid in the East ; none can do those scenes ... Not thou, vain lord of wantonness and ease !
