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Benjamin Britten's Poets: An Anthology of the Poems He Set to Music

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Edited by Boris Ford

       O dear white children casual as birds,
    Playing among the ruined languages,
    So small beside their large confusing words,
    So gay against the greater silences
    Of dreadful things you did.

W.H. Auden, 'Anthem for St Cecilia's Day',
for Benjamin Britten

Benjamin Britten was a great reader of poetry, and poetry profoundly
affected his musical genius and style of composition. Friendships and collaborations with writers -- Auden and Forster among them -- left their mark.

No other composer of songs, not even Schubert or Schumann, 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.

Title Information:

Imprint: Carcanet Poetry
ISBN-10: 1 857540 22 0
ISBN-13: 978 1 857540 22 2
Edition: 1st
Format: Hardback
Published: June 1994
Dimensions: 216x135mm
Pages: 352pp
Publisher: Carcanet Press

RRP: GBP£ 25.00
Discount: 10%
You Save: GBP£ 2.50

Price: GBP£ 22.50
Status: Out of Print

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