Of the books listed in the Bibliography, I am especially indebted to Professor Stephen Banfield’s Sensibility and English Song (Cambridge University Press, 1985). This encyclopedic survey of English song from the late nineteenth century to the middle of the twentieth ends with the song lists of fifty-four composers and over 5,000 songs – invaluable information for anyone interested in the development of English song – and I should like to thank Professor Banfield for allowing me to make use of his research into the dating of these songs. When two dates appear in brackets after the title of a song, roman denotes date of composition or completion, italics refer to the year of publication.
Many people have helped in the preparation of The Penguin Book of English Song. Graham Johnson, as always, has been generous with his time, knowledge and library; with Iain Burnside I had fruitful discussions about contemporary English song. Judith Chernaik, Lucasta Miller, Roy Foster, David Gilmour, Steven Curran and Philip Reed advised me on the chapters devoted to Shelley, Emily Brontë, Yeats, Kipling, Joyce and Auden; Gavin Griffiths and Jonathan Keates read the typescript with an eagle eye and made many valuable suggestions; Jonathan Katz supplied translations from Greek and Latin; Kathy Adamson and her staff at the Royal Academy of Music have been tireless in their search for elusive books and scores. Finally, I should like to thank my family for their patience with my technological incompetence; and Carola Lotzenburger and Gina Thomas for their timely belief in the book.
Grateful acknowledgement is made to the following for permission to reprint previously published material:
W. H. Auden: from Collected Poems, copyright © 1976, Edward Mendelson, William Meredith and Monroe K. Spears, Executors of the Estate of W. H. Auden. Reprinted by permission of Random House, Inc., Curtis Brown, Ltd.
Hilaire Belloc: from Collected Poems. Reprinted by permission of Peters, Fraser & Dunlop, Ltd. on behalf of the Estate of Hilaire Belloc.
Walter de la Mare: from The Complete Poems of Walter de la Mare, copyright © 1975, Walter de la Mare. Reprinted by permission of the Literary Trustees of Walter de la Mare and The Society of Authors as their representative.
Wilfrid William Gibson: from Whin. Reprinted by permission of the Wilfrid Gibson Literary Estate.
Robert Graves: from The Complete Poems: Volume I, copyright © 1995, Trustees of the Robert Graves Copyright Trust. Reprinted by permission of Carcanet.
John Masefield: from The Collected Poems of John Masefield. Reprinted by permission of The Society of Authors as the representative of the Estate of John Masefield.
Edith Sitwell: from Collected Poems. Reprinted by permission of Peters Fraser & Dunlop, Ltd. on behalf of the Estate of Edith Sitwell.
Dylan Thomas: from The Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas. Reprinted by permission of David Higham Associates, Ltd.