Hyde Park

Hyde Park Poulenc's setting (1945) for voice and piano of a poem by Guillaume Apollinaire. The poem, possibly written in 1903 during Apollinaire's first trip to England, was first published in Vers et Prose in 1913. Hyde Park, central London's largest park, was created by Henry VIII (1491–1547) when he seized lands from Westminster Abbey for his personal hunting pleasure. In the early 17th century, due to public pressure, the park became public. It was soon a place for the fashionable to drive…