| Benjamin Britten's Poets: An Anthology of the Poems He Set to Music Contributor(s): Ford, Boris (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1857542401 ISBN-13: 9781857542400 Publisher: Carcanet Press OUR PRICE: $21.15 Product Type: Paperback Published: May 1996 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | Anthologies (multiple Authors) |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6" W x 8.9" (1.10 lbs) 328 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Poetry affected Benjamin Britten's musical ability and style of his composition. Friendships and collaborations with writers - Auden and Forster among them - left their mark. Arguably, no other composer of songs, not even Schubert or Shumann, set poems of such range and quality. All the 360 poems Britten set are included in this book. They range from Donne's complex "Holy Sonnets" to the deceptive simplicity of Blake's "Oh rose thou art sick." They include anonymous ballads, modern work and poems in other languages (with translations). Full details of the source and use of each poem are given. |
