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Only in recent years have the importance and continuity of the Romantic stream in 18th-century English literature been recognized. Professor Beers has been largely responsible for the modern reevaluation of 18th-century Romanticism, and this well-known book is still one of the most fruitful surveys of the area. Brilliantly written, carefully researched, it proceeds by skillfully isolating the important substreams of literature, demonstrating origins...

The present volume of the Norton History of Music is an attempt to characterize the Romantic movement through its center: music. My aim has been to show how the Romantic movement was manifested in music and how music affected the Romantic movement. - Foreword.

Michael Hendricks kills people for money. That aside, he's not so bad a guy. Once a covert operative for a false-flag unit of the U.S. military, Hendricks was presumed dead after a mission in Afghanistan went sideways. He left behind his old life -- and beloved fiancâee -- and set out on a path of redemption ... or perhaps one of willful self-destruction. Now Hendricks makes his living as a hitman entrepreneur of sorts -- he only hits other hitmen....

This program retraces the life and places, the glories and despairs of Antonio Vivaldi, the red(haired) priest whose working relationship with a diva set tongues wagging and whose love for opera led to his downfall. And throughout and above all, of course, his music. Exquisite performances of the range of his work, from the "Estro Armonico" and other string masterpieces, pieces from some operas, "Juditha Triumphans," and examples of the sacred vocal...

This program from the Famous Composers series offers an overview of the life and work of composer and pianist Johannes Brahms beginning with an introduction to Brahms' family and hometown, the nineteenth century seaport city of Hamburg. The film follows Brahms' musical education with teachers Otto Cossel and Eduard Marxsen, his days of playing in bars and teaching to earn money, and his eventual move to the musical capital of Vienna. The film characterizes...