candidate: E. James , " The Gardener Who Saw God " , 1937 Edward James wrote four poems " Sécheresses " and Francis Poulenc put them in music for choir 4 mixt voices and piano ro orchestra in 1937 George Melly ( ed ) , " Swans Reflecting Elephants , My Early Years " , Autobiography of Edward James ( Weidenfeld , London 1982 ) .