No I haven't. I just have a book of his poems. I'd read "Dulce et Decorum Est" in school, of course. But then I sang Britten's "War Requiem," which is one of my all-time favorite choral works (that and Rachmaninoff's Vespers) and one of those few transcendant performance experiences of my singing career, and that is all Owen's poetry. There's nothing quite like hearing "Strange Meeting" performed at the end of that work.
This is going to sound very odd, but I didn't study history in school at all. As an adult, I've been working my way through history (yes, all of it), with the ultimate goal of getting to World War I with a real understanding of why it happened. At the moment I'm wallowing around in the Enlightenment, so I haven't quite gotten to the Edwardian era yet. (My dad's already given me a reading list for when I do.)
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Date: 2012-11-26 09:19 pm (UTC)This is going to sound very odd, but I didn't study history in school at all. As an adult, I've been working my way through history (yes, all of it), with the ultimate goal of getting to World War I with a real understanding of why it happened. At the moment I'm wallowing around in the Enlightenment, so I haven't quite gotten to the Edwardian era yet. (My dad's already given me a reading list for when I do.)