The Habit of Art Anne Glenconner Rivers is left to reflect

Rivers is left to reflect on the uncertain grace of an earth-goddess

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

the Emperor Galba

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Two very different worlds featuring a group of extraordinary characters driven to the very limit of their endurance in a place where only the strongest will survive

The Habit of Art Anne Glenconner Rivers is left to reflectAuden 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