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 NOTEPortions of a few of the chapters of this work appeared serially in TheCriterion, and the last chapter was published in The Smart Set. While, so far as the author knows, this is the first book on thesubject, it is given, perhaps, especial novelty by the fact thatadvantage could be taken of much new material given to the public forthe first time (with one exception) in the last few months, notably: arevelation of the exact identity of Beethoven's "Immortal Beloved;" theletters of Liszt to his princess; letters of Chopin long supposed tohave been burned, as well as diaries and letters gathered by an intimatefriend for a biography whose completion was prevented by death; thepublication of a vast amount of Wagneriana; the appearance of a fulllife of Tschaikovski by his brother, with complete elucidation of muchthat had been suppressed; the first volume of a new biography of ClaraSchumann, with a detailed account of the whole progress of her beautifullove story, down to the day of the marriage; and numberless fugitiveparagraphs throwing new light on affairs more or less unknown ormisunderstood. Love it is an hatefulle pees,A free acquitaunce without re lees. An hevy burthen light to here, A wikked wawe awey to were. It is kunnyng withoute science, Wisdome withoute sapience, Bitter swetnesse and swete errour, Right eville savoured good savour; A strengthe weyked to stonde upright, And feblenesse fulle of myght. A laughter it is, weping ay; Reste that traveyleth nyght and day. Also a swete helle it is, And a soroufulle Paradys. Romaunt of the Rose. CONTENTS | |
