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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Richard Cdagmr'e Romance. HE story of the man of genius who finds inspiration in another man's wife is not a new one, and it may even be called trite, but it is one to which the world always lends a willing ear. This is the story revealed in the recently published English version of the letters of Richard Wagner to Mathilde Wesendonck. In Germany, sweet land of sentiment, the book has reached the twentieth edition and is generally acclaimed as a true classic. In Germany, also, the alleged Platonic motive of the letters, elsewhere looked at askance, is easily admitted, since, as is well known to the nightingales and the lindens, a German lover will pursue an ardent courtship through a dozen years without daring once to put an arm around his divinity's waist. Art and love are a great patience in Germany. They were surely so in the case of Richard Wagner; and it is characteristic of the Teuton, that he has left the world in doubt as to whether his patience was ever rewarded. The doubt is indeed the chief provocation of these letters (outside of Germany), and furnishes the artistic motive by which they will endure. Or, to put the matter plainly, the other man's wife supplies the interest of this book. As of many others in the biography of greatness. Think you had these letters been addressed to Frau Wagner, that all the chaste nightingales of Germany would nowbe tuning in their praise ? Or that our own sentimentalists, with the unsexed Corybantes of music, would be swelling such a chorus of acclaim? Would the world be eager to identify Frau Wagner with the conception of Isolde, and should we be hearing all this patter about ideal union of souls, spiritual passion, etc., etc.? Not so!?the world will not tolerate the indecency of a man of genius loving his wife and p...


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  • ISBN-13: 9780217741361
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 60
  • Spine Width: 3 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0217741363
  • Publisher Date: 06 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 127 gr


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