Preface to the fourth edition
Preface to the third edition
Preface to the second edition
Preface to the first edition
Preliminary encouragements
Siegfried [Back to opera again]
Siegfried as Protestant [Panacea quackery, otherwise idealism
Night falls on the gods [A Wagnerian newspaper controversy
Collapse of the allegory]
Wagner's own explanation [The pessimist as amorist]
The music of the ring [The representative themes
The old and the new music
Bayreuth [Bayreuth in England
Wagnerism with Wagner left out].
