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Thread #80254 Message #3256569
Posted By: Jim Dixon
14-Nov-11 - 12:24 AM
Thread Name: Tune Req: The Lake Isle of Innisfree (W. B. Yeats)
Subject: RE: Tune Req: Old Melody Yeats 'Lake Isle of Innisfree
WorldCat.org shows that lots of people have set Yeats' poem to music:
Evelyn A. Sharp, 19--?
Oswald Forrest, 1903
Graham Peel, 1910
Liza Lehmann, 1911
John Palmer, 1915
Angus Morrison, 1917
Sheena Tennant, 1917
Robert Ralph, 1920
Arthur Foote, 1921
George Whitaker, 1922
Gladys Yang, 1923
Elizabeth Poston, 1926
Robin Orr, 1927
Granville Bantock, 1928
Muriel Herbert, 1928
F. A. Halliday, 1943?
Henry George Ley, 1950
Mary Howe, 1959
John W. Downey, 1963
Rudolph T. Werther, 1966
Susan Elizabeth Owens, 1981
Richard Faith, 1995-2001
Linda Phillips, 1999
Elsie & Amy Stephen, 2001
Eleanor Daley, 2002
Ben Moore, 2006