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Review: Books: In praise of brain power Ian Hamilton welcomes an elucidatory edition of the poems of the famously clever William Empson
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The Complete Poems of William Empson
ed by John Haffenden
Allen Lane/Penguin, pounds 30, 410 pp
pounds 24 (free p&p) 0870 155 7222
IN 1930, THE 24-year-old William Empson published a "grammatico-
critical" treatise called Seven Types of Ambiguity, in which he
argued that "the phenomenon of compression" was at the "very roots
of poetry". The book was greeted with admiring incredulity: how
could one so youthful have staged a critical performance of such
dashing subtlety? There was a story - a true story, so it happens -
that parts of Seven Types had been written as undergraduate essays.
It was ...
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Why George Frideric Handel Still Matters
Transcript from: NPR Morning Edition
; ...Edition 04-14-2009 Why George Frideric Handel Still Matters Time 10:00...stadiums in the 1700s, surely George Frideric Handel would have played in them...opera singing) MONTAGNE: George Frideric Handel died 250 years ago today...
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Georgian splendour; George Frideric Handel.(A wonderful year for lovers of Handel's music)
Magazine article from: The Economist (US)
; ...himself working for his old boss again when the elector of Hanover became King George I. By 1727 Handel was so well entrenched in London that, as George Frideric Handel, he became a naturalised British citizen (which required an act of Parliament...
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The madness of George Frideric Handel
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...the most notorious caricature of Handel, entitled The Charming Brute...friendship. David Hunter, a Handel specialist and curator at the...Houston, is more sympathetic. George Frideric Handel, celebrated not only for his...
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Handel Redux - A Mirror of Modern-day Culture.(George Frideric Handel)
Magazine article from: World and I
; ...authority and institutions, most of Handel's operas disappeared from the...redoubt in the 1720s and '30s, George Frideric Handel, today most remembered for his...the realm of opera, however, Handel's fame was fleeting. His works...
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George Frideric Handel Arias.(Sound recording review)
Magazine article from: Czech Music
; George Frideric Handel Arias (Alcina, Hercules, Agrippina...years after the release of her album of Handel's Italian cantatas. In the cantatas...bonus. Comparing this with her previous Handel CD, Kozena seems to have developed her...
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George Frideric Handel.(Sound Recording Reviews)(Brief Article)(Sound Recording Review)
Magazine article from: Notes
; George Frideric Handel. La Resurrezione. Nancy Argenta; Maria...Challenge Classics CC 72120, 2003. Of Handel's many oratorios, only two are both...unusually large-scale composition for Handel, requiring significant instrumental...
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George Frideric Handel: Israel in Egypt
Magazine article from: Strings
; George Frideric Handel: Israel in Egypt. King's College...need of a holiday-time alternative to Handel's great and omnipresent Messiah, a...collaborative effort that brings to light Handel's varied greatnesses like few other...
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Antonio Vivaldi. Gloria. George Frideric Handel.
Magazine article from: Notes
; Antonio Vivaldi. Gloria. George Frideric Handel. Gloria; Dixit Dominus. Monte...filler, this lovely disc offers Handel's recently discovered setting...places it near the beginning of Handel's career. The work itself is...
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Henry Purcell.(Henry Purcell: King Arthur)(George Frideric Handel: Teseo)(Video recording review)
Magazine article from: Notes
; ...2005. 2054508. $44.99. George Frideric Handel. Teseo. DVD. Lautten Compagney...wondering what composers such as Handel and Purcell would make of our...choice of subtitles and audio. Handel's third opera for London, Teseo...
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The Angeles Chorale to Perform George Frideric Handel's Messiah on December 15th with Members of the American Youth Symphony.
Business Wire
; ...authentic performance of Messiah by George Frideric Handel on Saturday, December 15, 2007...having worked with preeminent Handel musicologists Jens Peter Larsen...said Neuen. "In doing so, Handel embraced the stylistic writing...
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