Poet’s Muse: A Footnote to Beethoven

[AeolianHarp]

Rita Dove, the Pulitzer Prize-winning former United States poet laureate, has now breathed life into the story of that virtuoso, George Augustus Polgreen Bridgetower, in her new book, “Sonata Mulattica” (W. W. Norton). The narrative, a collection of poems subtitled “A Life in Five Movements and a Short Play,” intertwines fact and fiction to flesh out Bridgetower, the son of a Polish-German mother and an Afro-Caribbean father.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/03/bo...dove.html?_r=0

[Peter]

Rita Dove, the Pulitzer Prize-winning former United States poet laureate, has now breathed life into the story of that virtuoso, George Augustus Polgreen Bridgetower, in her new book, “Sonata Mulattica” (W. W. Norton). The narrative, a collection of poems subtitled “A Life in Five Movements and a Short Play,” intertwines fact and fiction to flesh out Bridgetower, the son of a Polish-German mother and an Afro-Caribbean father.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/03/bo...dove.html?_r=0

Thanks for that - I'm sure he was a very interesting character - the middle names alone!

[AeolianHarp]

He was and a brilliant violinst too!