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Benjamin Britten's Peter Grimes is one of the few operas of the last half-century to have gained a secure place in the repertory. Its appearance in 1945 shortly after the end of the war in Europe was a milestone in operatic history as well as in British music. But the origins of the work lie in the United States, where Britten and his friend Peter Pears (the first Grimes) spent the years 1939 42. In 1941 they read an evocative essay by the novelist E. M. Forster on the Suffolk poet George Crabbe (1754 1832); this precipitated Britten's decision to return to his native country, and sent them...

Fishes below the surface of The Old Man and the Sea to determine what is contained in Hemingway's allusions. The authors trace the development of symbols, amplify literary echoes, and contextualize the work's mythological, religious, and philosophical references. They examine the hybridity of genre in The Old Man and the Sea and engage multiple literary and critical methodologies.