Browning's Pessimism in "Fifine at the Fair". Dissertation, Etc
Author : John Meigs HITNER
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Author : John Meigs HITNER
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Author : John Meigs Hitner
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Page : 112 pages
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Release : 1962
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Author : Hiram Corson
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
Page : 301 pages
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Release : 1903-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1465526161
Author : Robert Browning
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Page : 534 pages
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Release : 1894
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Author : George Saintsbury
Publisher : London; New York : Macmillan
Page : 508 pages
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Release : 1896
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Author : Helen Archibald Clarke
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 202 pages
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Release : 2018-09-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3734037352
Reproduction of the original: Browning and His Century by Helen Archibald Clarke
Author : Robert Browning
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Page : 292 pages
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Release : 1872
Category : American poetry
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Author : Aurobindo Ghose
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Page : 458 pages
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Release : 1964
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Author : Frederick Niecks
Publisher : Ardent Media
Page : 562 pages
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Release : 2009-08
Category : Music
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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1907. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER IV. IN GERMANY. The writing of the present chapter cannot be called an inspiring task. Without Wagner's sovereign contempt for the music of his time, and Tchaikovsky's belief in Germany's complete exhaustion, one may yet be unable to grow enthusiastic over the theme. The productivity during the period with which we are concerned has been enormous. But how about the really valuable outcome of it? In the latter part of the 19th century the question was often asked: What remains if you remove from the living German composers Wagner and Brahms? And then there were ever so many people who, while heartily admitting the greatness of one of the two, were not so sure of the other--not to mention those who were all for the one and would have none whatever of the other. Now, ' this exclusive way of looking at men and things is not only unfair, it is absolutely foolish. The men of genius leave room for the men of talent; and the masters en grand for the masters en miniature. To be sure for some time past Germany has not been abounding in musical genius of the first or even second order. But if there has been a dearth of powerful original creativeness and of strikingly outstanding individuality, there has been also a goodly provision of artistic ability well deserving our respect and gratitude, ability displaying itself not merely in technical skill, but often also in imaginativeness, sensibility, and poetic charm. The great bulk of crudities, futilities, and vacuities need not trouble us: they are not peculiar to any one period. One could classify composers into (1) such as write only absolute music, and are uninfluenced by and even averse to the programmatic tendency; (2) such as write programme music, but only in the classical manner and forms; (3) such as go only ...
Author : John Frederick Charles Fuller
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Release : 1907
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