| Evidence: | Letter 255
April 7th 1940
'I?ve got this sudden craze for the Michael Angelo Sonnetts & have set about half a dozen of them (in Italian ? pretty brave, but there are people who speak good Italian, and after Rimbaud in French, I feel I can attack anything!)'
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| Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 1 Jan 1913 and 7 Apr 1940 | ||||||||||
| Country: | Britain and North America | ||||||||||
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| Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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| Reader: | Benjamin Britten |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Male |
| Date of Birth | 22 Nov 1913 |
| Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
| Occupation: | Composer |
| Religion: | n/a |
| Country of origin: | England |
| Country of experience: | Britain and North America |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | Michelangelo Buonarrotti |
| Title: | [unknown] |
| Genre: | Poetry |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 10191 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | Benjamin Britten et al | |
| Editor: | Donald Mitchell | |
| Title: | Letters from a Life: Selected Letters and Diaries of Benjamin Britten. Volume Two 1939-45 | |
| Place of Publication: | London | |
| Date of Publication: | 1988 | |
| Vol: | 2 | |
| Page: | 800-801 | |
| Additional comments: | From the editor?s footnote: ?These were finally to become Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo, Op. 22, for tenor and piano, completed at Amityville, on 30 October. Editors: Donald Mitchell and Philip Reed |
| Citation: | Benjamin Britten et al, Donald Mitchell (ed.), Letters from a Life: Selected Letters and Diaries of Benjamin Britten. Volume Two 1939-45 (London, 1988), 2, p. 800-801, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=10191, accessed: 25 April 2024 | |
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