Books by Neil Powell

I very much liked Neil Powell, Benjamin Britten: A Life for Music .  Also very good is Paul Kildea, Benjamin Britten: A Life in the Twentieth Century .  They are both also useful for understanding English intellectual life during the 20th century, most of all Auden but even Keynes and also the broader history of homosexuality in England.  Both are already out in the UK, where I picked them up earlier in the year, and both will make my best of the year list in late November.