From Chaucer to Auden: English poetry and song – a talk with music
Richard Stokes, Professor of Lieder at the Royal Academy of Music and author of The Penguin Book of English Song, Seven Centuries of Poetry from Chaucer to Auden
Richard Stokes’ Penguin Book of English Song, with a hundred chapters each devoted to a single writer, draws together a great variety of English poetry (including Irish, Scots and Welsh poets) that has inspired musical settings. The poems range from the fourteenth to the twentieth century. In his lecture he will focus on settings of Shakespeare, Campion, Donne, Blake, Burns, Tennyson, Hardy, Housman and Auden.
Richard Stokes is Professor of Lieder at the Royal Academy of Music and a regular juror at international song competitions. He has translated works for Opera North and ENO. He is the author of The Penguin Book of English Song. Seven Centuries of Poetry from Chaucer to Auden and of companions to French and Spanish song, The Book of Lieder and J. S. Bach – The Complete Cantatas, as well as translations of Kafka.
