Benjamin Britten's Poets by Boris Ford

Benjamin Britten's Poets by Boris Ford

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.

Boris Ford commissioned Benjamin Britten to write the children's opera Noye's Fludde when he was Head of Schools Broadcasting for Independent Television. His distinguished career has included a variety of professional and academic posts. He was general editor of The New Pelican Guide to English Literature and The Cambridge Guide to the Arts in Britain and edited the Universities Quarterly from 1955 to 1986.

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ISBN 13	9781857542400
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Titel	Benjamin Britten's Poets
Autor	Boris Ford
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Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	Carcanet Press Ltd
Erscheinungsjahr	1996-05-23
Seitenanzahl	328
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