Montagu Slater new. Slater's original libretto, which he published himself (to the annoyance of Britten and Peter Pears, who had made a number of amendments to it before the opera was staged), is cast in three acts. It omits the repetitions necessary in the actual opera. Anthony Burgess, writing in The Listener (magazine) in 1964, stated: “The excellence of Peter Grimes has a great deal to do with Montagu Slater's libretto, the only libretto I know that can be read in its own right as a dramatic poem.” He also wrote the libretti for `Yerma’, composed by Denis Aplvor. Slater was involved,
Thomas Grimes George More, of Loseley Park. Sir Thomas Grimes had a numerous family, mostly daughters. He was succeeded by his eldest son George. Thomas Grimes Sir Thomas Grimes or Grahme was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1614 and 1624. Grimes was the son of Thomas Grimes, citizen and haberdasher of London and of Peckham and his wife Jane Muschamp daughter and co-heir of Thomas Muschamp, of Peckham. He was knighted at Hanworth, Middlesex on 2 June 1603. He was J.P. and Deputy Lieutenant of Surrey. In 1614, he was elected Member of Parliament for Haslemere.