Beauty & Truth

 "Beauty is truth, truth beauty, - that is all
Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know."
John Keats - May 1819

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  • Introduction & Rationale
  • Overview of Topics
  • Poems
  • Literary Reviews & Analysis
  • Music History & Analysis I
  • Music History & Analysis II

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  Author Biography

Roger Hansford was born in 1981, and grew up at the New Forest home built in 1923 by his great-grandfather. Both of his parents are published writers. His extended family stretches from New Jersey, USA, and Biarritz, France, to the Lake District and the Home Counties, UK.

A postgraduate student at the University of Southampton, his research interests include the nineteenth-century reception of Mozart, and the piano music of Chopin. He has been awarded Bachelor of Arts in Music with First Class Honours, and MMus in Musicology with Distinction.

He holds UK qualified teacher status, and for five years taught music at secondary schools in Canterbury and Bournemouth. He is also an instrumental teacher, examiner, and church organist. He enjoys writing, along with all aspects of the arts and arts appreciation.