Continuous Quiz: High Brow

[Baldassaro]

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

[NickM]

Completely correct.

It was seeing the exhibition that prompted me to set the question.

[Baldassaro]

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?

[Dannygraver]

As a guess "Longfellow", he's the only American poet I can think of without straining my little grey cells!

[NickM]

Or if not Longfellow, then Whitman.

[Baldassaro]

Right second time. It was the Good Grey Poet. Apparently, the third most-set American poet after Longfellow and Emily Dickinson.

Over to you...

[NickM]

Delacroix's The Death of Sardanapalus was based on a work by which poet?

[davidmfay]

Delacroix did lots of stuff inspired by Lord Byron. Could it be he?

[NickM]

It could indeed be Byron, and it is.

[davidmfay]

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"?