The complete online text of Preludes 1921-1922 by John Drinkwater.

Although best known for his work in the theater, John Drinkwater would probably have defined himself as a poet. He was also active in the field of biography, and in fact his most successful play, Abraham Lincoln (1918), was the first of his historical pr...

In his own mind John Drinkwater was foremost a poet, but it was through his work as dramatist, playwright, biographer, essayist, critic, editor, and lecturer that Drinkwater gained readers for his poetry. The uneducated John Drinkwater was welcomed into...

Hoping to revitalize poetic drama on the English stage, John Drinkwater began his playwriting career in 1911 by writing verse plays for Barry Jackson's amateur theater group, the Pilgrim Players, in Birmingham. These works were favorably received by the...

The Washington Conference on Naval Armament, held from 1921-1922, one of the most successful arms limitation agreements in history, was triggered by three decisive factors in the post-World War I era, the erosion of the Western hegemony in Asia after that war, the renewal...

SCRIABIN Preludes * Andrei Diev (pn) * ARTE NOVA 654 220 (2 CDs: 131:18) Andrei Diev is something of a cipher. Born either in 1958 or in 1965 (depending on your sources), he studied at the Moscow Conservatory and won prizes in a...