Since his untimely death in 1974 at the age of 26, singer-songwriter Nick Drake has not only gained a huge international audience, which eluded him during his lifetime, but has come to represent the epitome of English Romanticism. Drake's small but much-loved body of work has led to comparisons with Blake, Keats, Vaughan Williams and Delius, placing him within a long line of English mystical Romantics. Yet on closer inspection Drake's work betrays a myriad of international, cosmopolitan influences and approaches that seem to confound his status as the archetypal English troubadour.