Sappho • Anne Sexton • William Shakespeare • Percy Bysshe Shelley • Wallace Stevens • Robert Louis Stevenson • Wistawa Szyffiborska • Alfred, Lord Tennyson • Dylan Thomas • Derek Walcott • Walt Whitman • Oscar Wilde • William Carlos Williams • William Wordworth • William Butler Yeats POETRY/AMTHOLOGY

Sappho • Anne Sexton • William Shakespeare • Percy Bysshe Shelley • Wallace Stevens • Robert Louis Stevenson • Wistawa Szyffiborska • Alfred, Lord Tennyson • Dylan Thomas • Derek Walcott • Walt Whitman • Oscar Wilde • William Carlos Williams • William Wordworth • William Butler Yeats POETRY/AMTHOLOGY

Sappho • Anne Sexton • William Shakespeare • Percy Bysshe Shelley • Wallace Stevens • Robert Louis Stevenson • Wistawa Szyffiborska • Alfred, Lord Tennyson • Dylan Thomas • Derek Walcott • Walt Whitman • Oscar Wilde • William Carlos Williams • William Wordworth • William Butler Yeats POETRY/AMTHOLOGY

to compose a few things at the house at Mina Saud with a piano | had bought in Kuwait. They included an a cappella (unaccompanied) choral setting of Tennyson’s “All Along the Valley”, and something to which I later fit Emily Dickenson’s poem “Beauty Crowds Me” in my song cycle “The White Election”. The com