2/20/2023 0 Comments Britten metamorphoses pdf![]() ![]() Most of all, because Carpenter makes of the Auden letter which I quoted from Mitchell's notes the key to understanding Britten's life and work, I need to quote and comment on that strange and prophetic document once more.ĭuring the comparatively brief phase of their collaborative work, Auden challenged and dominated Britten like no one else in his life. ![]() Because Carpenter's subsequent biography of Britten (Faber & Faber, 1992) draws both on his own earlier study of Auden as well as on the Mitchell and Duncan volumes, I need to repeat a few things I said more than a decade ago. Auden in The Southern Review (Winter, 1983), along with two books treating Benjamin Britten's collaborative work with Auden and Ronald Duncan - Donald Mitchell's Britten and Auden in the Thirties and Duncan's autobiographical Working With Britten. John Matthias reflects on Humphrey Carpenter's biography of 1992, in light of earlier work by Auden and recent findings.Īlmost fifteen years ago I reviewed Humphrey Carpenter's biography of W.H. ![]()
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