by Virginia Woolf (1882 - 1941)
Rome (May, 1935)
Language: English
Rome: tea. Tea in café. Ladies in bright coats and white hats. Music. Look out and see people like movies . . . Ices. Old man who haunts the Greco . . . Fierce large jowled old ladies . . . talking about Monaco. Talleyrand. Some very poor black wispy women. The effect of dowdiness produced by wispy hair. Sunday café . . . Very cold. The prime Minister's letter offering to recommend me for the Companion of Honour. No.
Note: this is a prose text; the line breaks are arbitrary.
Text Authorship:
- by Virginia Woolf (1882 - 1941) [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Dominick Argento (1927 - 2019), "Rome (May, 1935)", from From the Diary of Virginia Woolf, no. 5. [ sung text checked 1 time]
Researcher for this page: Malcolm Wren [Guest Editor]
This text was added to the website: 2008-07-01
Line count: 7
Word count: 80