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| | Sir Arnold Bax (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27) |
 | | It is common knowledge that as well as being a composer Arnold Bax was a prolific man of letters, with four plays, at least thirty short stories, and over 300 poems to his name - or rather to that of his alter ego, Dermot O'Byrne. |
 | | These are interspersed with sections on two of Bax's principal girlfriends, Isobel Hodgson and Mary Field, with transcriptions of his letters to them, and there are also pages on his wife, Elsita, and on Harriet Cohen, the woman for whom he left her. |
 | | Bax was an inveterate reader of verse, and the main influences on his own early poetry include such figures as Yeats, AE, Macleod, and Swinburne. |
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