My Beloved Man

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It''s a life of the two of us.'' The complete surviving correspondence between Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears. <p/>To read these letters is to climb up a wall and peer into the secret garden of two giants.'' From the Foreword by FIONA SHAW <p/> This volume comprises the complete surviving correspondence between Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears. The 365 letters written throughout their 39-year relationship are here brought together and published, as Pears intended, for the first time. While the correspondence provides valuable evidence of the development of Britten''s works, more significant is the insight into his relationship with Pears and their day-to-day life together. Entertaining to read, domestic and intimate, the letters provide glimpses of cultural and artistic life in the twentiethcentury, including pacifism and conscientious objection, critical assessments of music and other artists, transport and communications development in the twentieth century, the ''Aldeburgh corpses