Letter: John Steane obituary

John Daniel writes: John Steane (obituary, 29 March) was best known as a musicologist and a leading authority on singing, but I knew him as an English teacher at Merchant Taylors' school in Middlesex, where he was my tutor in the early 1950s. In an institution dominated by rugby and the cadet corps, where classics, science and modern languages were the recognised routes of learning, he introduced me to the intricacies of English literature.He opened up a world in which English, instead of being ...

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