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IDEALA

Love Letters and Poems of Arnold Bax

ISBN 0-9535125-3-3

Dermot O’Byrne

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	Scott-Sutherland’s ‘IDEALA’ is illustrated (or, rather, illuminated) by an extensive array of photographic plates, most never published before: rare photos and the whole score of The Princess’s Rose-Garden, in homage to Harriet Cohen’s garden, a sumptuous example of Bax’s piano writing, and most unlike much well-mannered English Music. If Bax’s originality had little feeling for scholarly historic perspective, his brother Clifford Bax (also featured in the new book) was a poet with a keen sense of such perspective. His splendid and extensive English anthology, Vintage Verse, has illuminating introductions to each selection (Hollis & Carter, London, 1945).
	—Ronald Stevenson, International Piano Quarterly

	I do not underestimate the dedication invested in this work by the editor and the publisher. It must have been a phenomenal task.
	—Rob Barnett, British Music Society News 92 (December 2001)

September 2001 saw the publication of the collected poems of Dermot O’Byrne (Sir Arnold Bax’s literary pseudonym) in the form of a substantial volume entitled IDEALA. This fascinating book, containing poems, love letters, music and other writings by those who knew him intimately, is edited and introduced by Bax’s first biographer, Colin Scott-Sutherland (Arnold Bax, Dent, 1973).

This sumptuous book contains 320 pages with nearly 90 illustrations, including an edition of The Princess’s Rose Garden, and is hard-bound and gold-blocked. Reviews have been numerous and very positive; the quotations shown at the head of this page are chosen at random, so click the Reload button to see others.

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		Author	Title
		Dermot O’Byrne	IDEALA Love Letters and Poems of Arnold Bax ISBN 0-9535125-3-3
	#	Author(s)	Chapter
	1	Dermot O’Byrne Edited by Colin Scott-Sutherland	Acknowledgments
	2		Introduction
	3		Poems in Red Notebook
	4		First (typed) Collection
	5		Letters to Isobel Hodgson
	6		‘Seafoam and Firelight’
	7		Letters to Mary Field
	8		Second (typed) Collection
	9		Harriet Cohen and ‘The Princess’s Rose Garden’
	10		Elsa Sobrino
	11		‘Verses’ – Third (typed) Collection
	12		‘Love Poems of a Musician’
	13		‘A Dublin Ballad and Other Poems’
	14		Memoir ‘The Two Brothers’ (Francis Colmer)
	15		Appendices 1–8
	16		Index of Poems
	17		General Index

Catalogue code: FM091 • Published: September 2001
Entry last updated: 21st July 2010