Sensibility and English Song

This highly acclaimed study of English song is the first detailed account of an unusually fruitful interrelationship between English music and English poetry. The period covered is known as the English Musical Renaissance and runs from the last years of the nineteenth century to the Second World War. Stephen Banfield traces the late flowering of Romantic impulses in solo song during these years, surveying it from critical, analytical and historical angles.Banfield, Stephen is the author of 'Sensibility and English Song', published 1985 under ISBN 9780521230858 and ISBN 0521230853.