Poetry & Opera

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Alliterative verse	American poetry	Benjamin Britten
Danny Deever	Dido and Aeneas	English poetry
Epic of Gilgamesh	George Herbert	Giuseppe Verdi
Hansel and Gretel (opera)	Irish poetry	Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
Kubla Khan	Madama Butterfly	Modernist poetry in English
Opera	Peter Grimes	Poetry
Porgy and Bess	Portal:Poetry	Ramayana
Richard Wagner	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	The Absent-Minded Beggar
The Cantos	The Fairy-Queen	The Magic Flute
The Marriage of Figaro	The Rime of the Ancient Mariner	The Waste Land
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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