Britten when young
Frank Kermode, 29 August 1991
Letters from a Life: The Selected Letters and Diaries of Benjamin Britten Vol. I 1923-39, Vol. II 1939-45
edited by Donald Mitchell and Philip Reed.
Faber, 1403 pp., £75, June 1991,9780571152216 Show More
edited by Donald Mitchell and Philip Reed.
Faber, 1403 pp., £75, June 1991,
“... The list includes Mozart and Mendelssohn; and, despite all the limiting judgments, it includes Benjamin Britten. At a time when there was more interest than there is now in deciding what genius was, and what a genius was, Fichte argued that ‘where genius is really present, there industry is found spontaneously, and develops with a steady growth ... ”