By the 1840s Joseph Haydn, who died in 1809 as the most celebrated composer of his generation, had degenerated into the bewigged "Papa Haydn," a shallow placeho...
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J.M. Coetzee, arguably the most decorated and critically acclaimed writer of fiction in English today, is a deeply intellectual and philosophical writer. Yet wh...
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That Goethe's poetry has proved pivotal for the development of the nineteenth-century Lied has long been acknowledged. Less acknowledged is the seminal impact i...
The British Embassy in Istanbul was unique among other diplomatic missions in the long eighteenth century in being financed by a private commercial monopoly, th...
Since 1945, authors and scholars have intensely debated what form literary fiction about the Holocaust should take. The works of H.G. Adler (1910-1988) and W.G....
North of Boston, Robert Frost's second book of verse and arguably his greatest, brought him suddenly into national prominence in 1915. Though completed and firs...