This poetry collection titles both a song cycle and an orchestral rhapsody by George Butterworth. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this collection of poetry, parts of which were also set by Arthur Somervell and Ivor Gurney. A piano and string quartet accompany a song cycle from this collection titled On Wenlock Edge.
ANSWER: A Shropshire Lad
[10e] A.E. Housman denounced this composer’s song cycle On Wenlock Edge after it left out several verses of one of his poems. This composer also wrote the London and Sea symphonies.
ANSWER: Ralph Vaughan Williams [prompt on Williams]
[10h] This other English composer set Thomas Hardy poems in his song cycles Earth and Air and Rain and By Footpath and Stile.
ANSWER: Gerald Finzi [or Gerald Raphael Finzi]
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