Mordaunt Currie
Sir Walter Mordaunt Cyril Currie, 5th Baronet (3 June 1894 – 30 July 1978) was an early 20th-century poet who lived in Essex.
He wrote the lyrics for English composer Cecil Armstrong Gibbs's second symphony Odysseus,[1] and lyrics for other religious and secular purposes.[2]
His poem 'Perilous Ways' was set to music by the composer Martin Shaw.[3]
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Poetry publications include:
- Icarian Ways[4]
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Categories:
- Baronets in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom
- 1894 births
- 1978 deaths
- English male poets
- 20th-century English poets
- 20th-century English male writers
- British poet stubs