The novelist Anthony Burgess was the 1980 T. S. Eliot Memorial Lecturer at the University of Kent. In four lectures recorded at Canterbury earlier this year he explored the two arts in rivalry and in collaboration.
3: Curiously-Coloured Things
'It is when listening to Verdi's Falstafr that a literary man who claims that music cannot achieve what literature achieves has the deepest doubts about this claim.'
(The Novel as Music: next Monday 7.0)