Rve Poets
With Peggy Reynolds.
2: Chaucer. Geoffrey Chaucer , the father of English poetry, author of The Canterbury Tales, was a scholar, diplomat, civil servant, courtier and lawyer. He did most of these jobs for money, but it was the job for which he did not get paid - his writing - that made him famous. Music includes excerts from:
Dyson Canterbury Pilgrims
London Symphony Orchestra, conductor Richard Hickox
Alan Bush, arr Stevenson Wat Tyler Ronald Stevenson (piano)
Vaughan Williams Merciless Beauty Philip Langridge (tenor),
Andrew Watkinson and James Clark (violins), David Waterman (cello)