Nick Drake Dreaming England |
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| Author:
| Wiseman-Trowse, Nathan |
| Series title: | Reverb Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-78023-176-1 |
| Publication Date: | Oct 2013 |
| Publisher: | Reaktion Books, Limited
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $25.00 |
Book Description:
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Since his untimely death in 1974 at the age of 26, singer-songwriter Nick Drake has not only gained a huge international audience, which eluded him during his lifetime, but has come to represent the epitome of English Romanticism. Drake's small but much-loved body of work has led to comparisons with Blake, Keats, Vaughan Williams and Delius, placing him within a long line of English mystical Romantics. Yet on closer...
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Since his untimely death in 1974 at the age of 26, singer-songwriter Nick Drake has not only gained a huge international audience, which eluded him during his lifetime, but has come to represent the epitome of English Romanticism. Drake's small but much-loved body of work has led to comparisons with Blake, Keats, Vaughan Williams and Delius, placing him within a long line of English mystical Romantics. Yet on closer inspection Drake's work betrays a myriad of international, cosmopolitan influences and approaches that seem to confound his status as the archetypal English troubadour.