The Habit of Art Anne Glenconner as if some ancient curse

as if some ancient curse is being brought alive

Messed up and BRILLIANT LIZ LOVES BOOKS

including the apparent end of his parents' marriage and his father's desire to have him aborted

Antonia Fraser

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The Habit of Art Anne Glenconner as if some ancient curseAuden often said that metre and rhyme led him down unexpected paths to thoughts he wouldn't otherwise have had, and in this respect versification and fornication are not so different. Benjamin Britten, sailing uncomfortably close to the wind with his new opera, Death in Venice, seeks advice from his former collaborator and friend, W H Auden. During this imagined meeting, their first for twenty five years, they are observed and interrupted by amongst