Ebook: Nick Drake: dreaming England

Cover; Nick Drake Dreaming England; Imprint Page; Contents; Introduction; 1. Dreaming England; 2. Listening to the Land; 3. The Country and the City; 4. Melancholia and Loss; 5. Drake's Legacy; Chronology; References; Select Bibliography; Discography; Acknowledgements; Photo Acknowledgements; Index;Since his death in 1974 at the age of twenty-six, singer-songwriter Nick Drake has gained a huge international audience and come to be thought of as the epitome of English romanticism. But while his small body of work has evoked poetic comparisons with Blake and Keats, closer inspection of Drake's music reveals many global and cosmopolitan influences that confound his status as an archetypal English troubadour. In this book, Nathan Wiseman-Trowse unravels the myths surrounding Drake and his work and explores how ideas of Englishness have come to be intimately associated with the cult musician.