|
Showing 1 - 5 of
5 matches in All Departments
In this book Lucy Beckett gives a comprehensive account of Wagner's
last and strangest opera. The literary sources of this work, its
many links with Wagner's life and thought, its libretto, music and
stage history, are all thoroughly examined. There is a full
commentary, with extensive quotation, on the work's critical
history, and finally, a fresh assessment of its place in the Wagner
canon and of its unique quality as a music drama that is both
modern and Christian. Full references, a bibliography and a
discography are provided. A special chapter of musical analysis is
contributed by Arnold Whittall.
Wallace Stevens, who died in 1955, was one of the most original,
prolific, serious, and rewarding of twentieth-century American
poets. This is a detailed critical study of his poetry, identifying
its concerns, from the point of view of a convinced admirer. Lucy
Beckett presents Sevens as a contemplative poet, engaged on a long
enquiry into the nature of the relationship between the creative
imagination and the world it illuminates and recreates. Steven's
achievement is seen as one of the great monuments in English of the
endeavour to find and sustain a connection between poetry and
belief.
|
A Late Finding
Lucy Beckett
|
R806
Discovery Miles 8 060
|
Ships in 10 - 15 working days
|
|
You may like...
Loot
Nadine Gordimer
Paperback
(2)
R398
R330
Discovery Miles 3 300
Loot
Nadine Gordimer
Paperback
(2)
R398
R330
Discovery Miles 3 300
|
Email address subscribed successfully.
A activation email has been sent to you.
Please click the link in that email to activate your subscription.