Chatto & Windus

A Song of Love and Death

Preface Rite Orpheus Dionysus Eros Mephistopheles Dagon Repertory Classical Opera Mozart Romantic Opera Beethoven and Political Opera Berlioz and Historical Opera Verdi Wagner Realism and Puccini Wagnerism and Strauss Past and Present Performance Phantoms of the Opera The Met and the Metropolis Opera in a Garden New Theaters Drama Against Music After the Revolution, and …

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Henry V

Introduction Screenplay of Henry V

The Poetry is in the Pity

from the library of Hilda D. Spear Introduction – Up to 1918 The 1930 Poets The Spanish Civil War Auden and Campbell 1939: The Older Generation of Poets 1939: The Middle Generation of Poets 1939: The Younger Generation of Poets The Communal Sense in Second World War Poetry Appendix: Reviewers on the Poetry

Wilfred Owen: A Critical Study

from the library of Hilda D. Spear Poetry and the First World War Owen’s Early Ideas of Poetry The Impact of the War on Owen’s Poetry Elegies to This Generation The Very Seared Conscience Half-rhyme Some Problems of Text and Dating The Recognition of One’s Peers Appendices Dates of Composition of Owen’s Poems Dates and …

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The Life of Thomas More

This Dark World Pretty Plays of Childhood St Anthony’s Pigs Cough Not, Nor Spit Set on His Book Duty is the Love of Law Most Holy Father We Talk of Letters If You Want to Laugh The Wine of Angels Holy, Holy, Holy! Craft of the City Milk and Honey A Jolly Master-woman King’s Games …

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