The Perfect Wagnerite: A Commentary on the Niblung's RingB. Tauchnitz, 1913 - 256 pages |
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Adventures Alberic Alberic's allegory Anarchism Bakoonin Bayreuth become Brynhild called Castle Charles Church Complete List Craik Daughter Diary Don Giovanni dragon dramatic Dresden dwarf English Essays Fafnir force forest Freia Fricka fried George German giants Gibichungs Godhead Gods golden Götterdämmerung Gunther Gutruna Hagen hand Heart helmet Henry hero History human Hunding ideas John Julius Cæsar Kart Lady Lohengrin Loki Lord Mary Master mighty Mimmy Mimmy's Miss modern moral mountain Mozart music drama musician Niblung Night Falls Norns Nothung numbers opera panacea Perfect Wagnerite person play Plutonic Poems Poetical political Portrait race Rhine Gold Ring Roeckel romantic says scene score Shelley Sieg Siegfried Siegfried's Death sing sister Sketches spear Stories Stories IV sword Tannhäuser Tarnhelm Tauchnitz Edition tells theme thing thought tion tunes Valhalla Valkyries vide Author Volsung Wagner Wanderer whilst Wife Woman Wotan Wotan and Loki Young
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Page 15 - Confidence i v. — Washington Square, etc. 2 v. — The Portrait of a Lady 3 v. — Foreign Parts i v. — French Poets and Novelists i v. — The Siege of London; The Point of View; A Passionate Pilgrim i v.
Page 5 - Lady Audley's Secret 2 v. Aurora Floyd 2 v. Eleanor's Victory 2 v. John Marchmont's Legacy 2 v. Henry Dunbar 2 v. The Doctor's Wife 2 v. Only a Clod 2 v. Sir Jasper's Tenant 2 v. The Lady's Mile 2 v.
Page 24 - Amy Herbert 2 v. — Ursula 2 v. — A Glimpse of the World 2 v. — The Journal of a Home Life 2 v. — After Life 2 v. — The Experience of Life 2 v.
Page 125 - The majority of men at present in Europe have no business to be alive; and no serious progress will be made until we address ourselves earnestly and scientifically to the task of producing trustworthy human material for society.
Page 24 - Mannering i v. — Rob Roy i v. — The Pirate i v. — The Fortunes of Nigel i v. — The Black Dwarf ; A Legend of Montrose i v. — The Bride of Lammermoor i v. — The Heart of MidLothian 2 v. — The Monastery i v. — The Abbot i v. — Peveril of the Peak 2 v.
Page 5 - Night and Morning i v. The Last of the Barons 2 v. Athens 2 v. The Poems and Ballads of Schiller i v. Lucretia 2 v.
Page 21 - The Ring,>> with all its gods and giants and dwarfs, its water-maidens and Valkyries, its wishing-cap, magic ring, enchanted sword, and miraculous treasure, is a drama of today, and not of a remote and fabulous antiquity.
Page 13 - A Laodicean 2 v. — Two on a Tower 2 v. — A Pair of Blue Eyes 2 v. — A Group of Noble Dames i v. — Tess of the D'Urbervilles 2v.
Page 126 - The most inevitable dramatic conception, then, of the nineteenth century is that of a perfectly naive hero upsetting religion, law and order in all directions, and establishing in their place the unfettered action of Humanity doing exactly what it likes, and producing order instead of confusion thereby because it likes to do what is necessary for the good of the race.
Page 12 - an allegory," a "poetic vision of unregulated industrial capitalism as it was made known in Germany in the middle of the nineteenth century by Engel's "Condition of the Laboring Classes in England." Yet he told Henderson that his Uncle Walter Gurly's ribald commentaries on the Biblical stories had quite destroyed his "inculcated childish reverence for the verbiage of religion, for its legends and personifications and parallels.