Edmund John

(b San Francisco, 10 June 1913; d Berkeley, 9 Dec 1986). American composer. He studied at Harvard and in England under Goldsbrough and Dart. He taught at Syracuse and Berkeley and worked at the New York Public Library, 1957-61, and was in England, 1968-76. His large output of songs is mostly inspired by English and Irish poetry (e.g. The Faucon, 1944), many showing an awareness of earlier music (e.g. Psalms of David, 1960); evocative accompaniments are matched by sensitive declamation. He also wrote choral works and ballets.

Edmund John (27 November 1883 - 28 February 1917) was a British poet of the Uranian school whose verses were modelled on the Symbolist poetry of Swinburne and other earlier poets. Much of his work was condemned by critics for being overly decadent and unfashionable. He fought in the First World War, but was invalided out in 1916. He died a year later at Taormina, in Sicily.

Bibliography

• The Flute of Sardonyx: Poems (1913)
• The Wind in the Temple: Poems (1915)
• Symphonie Symbolique (1919)

Further reading

• D'Arch Smith, Timothy (1970). Love in Earnest. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul.

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