Here is where it helps to have gone to the Ford Madox Brown exhibition in Manchester before Christmas.
Ford Madox Ford (ne Hueffer) was the grandson of Ford Madox Brown
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Completely correct.
It was seeing the exhibition that prompted me to set the question.
It was seeing the exhibition that prompted me to set the question.
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Thanks Nick.
Works by which American poet were set to music by Frederick Delius, Charles Ives, Ralph Vaughan Williams and Kurt Weill, amongst many others?
Works by which American poet were set to music by Frederick Delius, Charles Ives, Ralph Vaughan Williams and Kurt Weill, amongst many others?
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As a guess "Longfellow", he's the only American poet I can think of without straining my little grey cells!
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Or if not Longfellow, then Whitman.
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Right second time. It was the Good Grey Poet. Apparently, the third most-set American poet after Longfellow and Emily Dickinson.
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Delacroix's The Death of Sardanapalus was based on a work by which poet?
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Delacroix did lots of stuff inspired by Lord Byron. Could it be he?
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It could indeed be Byron, and it is.
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Which Brahms work did Bernard Shaw describe as one of those experiences that "no man should be compelled to sit through twice in a lifetime"?
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