Composers in Poetry Web Project

MUS 690 | Spring 2020 | Brent M. Johnson

English Contemporaries

Ralph Vaughan Williams

1872-1958 Great Britain

The following poems have made reference to Ralph Vaughan Williams:

“Triumph of the Postmodern” from These are my Rivers by Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1993)

“Horsemeat” from War All the Time: Poems 1981-1984 by Charles Bukowski (1984)

“Came Away with Betjeman to Pull Him Along Through Wulfstan Until Dinner Time” from Collected Poems 1980-1990 by Gavin Ewart (1991)

“Lower Lumb Mill” from Given Ground by Roger Garfitt (1989)

“Strange Evidence” from Nietzsche’s Attaché Case: New and Selected Poems by Daniel Weissbort (1993)

“Greatest of the Great”by Hugh Wyles (2003)

Gustav Holst

1874-1934 Great Britain

The following poems have made reference to Gustav Holst:

“Greatest of the Great” by Hugh Wyles (2003)

“Holst” by J.J. Evendon (b. 1949)

“Gustav Holst” by Charlie Chitty (2016)

“Holst Thought” by Alison Brakenbury (1995)

Edward Elgar

1857-1934 Great Britain

The following poems have made reference to Edward Elgar:

“Lower Lumb Mill” from Given Ground by Roger Garfitt (1989)

“Greatest of the Great” by Hugh Wyles (2003)

“Musical Acrostic” by Andrew Joseph Fort (2019)

“Fear and Madness” by Charles Bukowski (1981)