Letter: Sir Frank Kermode obituary

Alexander Goehr writes: Frank Kermode (obituary, 19 August) had a brilliant and incisive mind, wrote great books, had many pupils who testify to his qualities as a teacher. But to all this I would like to add, and I believe it central to the man, that he had the fine ear and taste of a poet.At the end of the 1980s, I consulted him about an idea for a song cycle I wished to write – not just a collection of settings of poems that I could have chosen myself, but some kind of a monodrama. After so...

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