Gerald F. Sweeney's new book is titled "US Composers and Poets - The Intersection of American Classical Music and American Literature." The relationship between American composers and American writers has always been close. Creating the music to accompany and enhance the prose and poetry pf our greatest writers has given us a treasury of musical masterpieces, including Ives' "Concord Sonata" after Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne and the Alcotts-...