John Cage, whose pieces dazzled and confounded audiences for six decades, hardly seems the easiest of subjects for the biographer, but this is a well-researched, coherent, quite readable account of the composer and his work. What comes across is a man who was ferociously driven to create music and to promote it to those who could most effectively advance it. Cage was an iconoclast, yet he developed relationships—often symbiotic—with some of the iconic artists of the past century, including Arnold Schoenberg, Jasper Johns, Marcel Duchamp, Buckminster Fuller, Pierre Boulez, Robert Rauschenberg, and longtime companion Merce Cunningham.
This is a thorough and original study of German knighthood as a class in its medieval heyday. Arnold draws on a rich array of descriptive detail from the lives of individual knights, their families, and various groups to examine knightly customs and practices, the impact of knighthood in the political world of the German Empire, and the curious status of most knights as at once noble and unfree. These unfree knights, argues Arnold, were above all professional warriors in an empire where violence for political ends prevailed--a harsh reality that dictated the structure and development of their class.
George Saintsbury writes about Matthew Arnold in the "Modern English Writers" series published by Blackwood & Sons. He writes, "I have endeavoured, in dealing with the master of all English critics in the latter half of nineteenth century 'to help the reader who wants criticism.'" The book gives a brief biographical sketch of Matthew Arnold and later discusses his works.
Challenging a modern culture of skepticism, this book recovers the core conviction of Victorian liberal theory that human beings, with the help of the state, can achieve an objective moral perfection. Exposing century-long interpretive habits in nineteenth-century studies and political theory that still blind us to the merits of both perfectionism and statism, the book portrays Victorian liberals like John Stuart Mill, Matthew Arnold, and the American Transcendentalists as comprising a forgotten episode in the history of liberalism of vital importance today
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Matthew Arnold: Selected Poetry
Matthew Arnold was an English poet and cultural criticist on contemporary social issues. Contents: Apollo Musagetes, Bacchanalia or The New Age, Cadmus and Harmonia, Consolation, Dover Beach, From the Hymn of Empedocles, Immortality, Isolation, Lines Written in Kensington Gardens, Memorial Verses: April 1850, Morality, Mycerinus, Obermann Once More, Palladium, Philomela, Quiet Work, Requiescat, Rugby Chapel,Shakespeare, Self-Dependence, Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse, The Buried Life, The Forsaken Merman,The Future, The Last Word, Worldly Place, The Scholar-Gipsy, The Song of Callicles, The Strayed Reveller, Thyrsis a Monody, To Marguriet: Continued, Youth and Calm, Index of First Lines
