Britten and Auden in the Thirties The Year 1936 : the T.S. Eliot Memorial Lectures Delivered at the University of Kent at Canterbury in November 1979

These lectures were notable for their first-ever access to Britten's private diaries, which he kept on a daily basis in the thirties, and a revealing portrait emerges of the two men's relationship, of their work together in many different fields, and the politics of the day and their appalled response to the rise of Fascism in Europe."--BOOK JACKET.