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Frank Kermode: Britten, 28 January 2010
Journeying Boy: The Diaries of the Young Benjamin Britten
edited by John Evans.
Faber, 576 pp., £25, November 2009,978 0 571 23883 5 Show More
edited by John Evans.
Faber, 576 pp., £25, November 2009,
“... covers the same period as this new collection; but there was plenty of work for the new editor, John Evans. The diaries were begun when Britten was 15 and ended, rather abruptly, when he was 25. They were written in pocket diaries, the earlier entries mostly fitting into the space allowed by the format, four days per page. As his interests widened ... ”