Variations / by James Huneker.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Huneker, James, 1857-1921.

Contributor:

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

American Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature, Modern--19th century.

Literature, Modern.

Music--History and criticism.

Music.

Art.

Genre:

Essays.

Physical Description:

viii, 279 pages ; 20 cm

Manufacture:

New York, U. S. A. : Printed at The Scribner Press.

Place of Publication:

New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, 1921.

Contents:

Various

How not to be a genius

The recantations of George Moore

Crushed violets

Baudelaire's letters to his mother

The two temptations

The Flaubert anniversary

Roosevelt and Brandes

Pennell talks about etching

In praise of prints

New Russia for old

Cezanne

Eili eili lomo asovtoni?

Socialism and mediocrity

Chopin or the circus?

Art and alcohol

The tragic Chopin

Phases of the greater Chopin

The twilight of Cosima I

Idle speculations

The master builder

Verdi's Otello

Faust and Mephisto

Bohemian music

The music of yesterday?

Liszt's only piano sonata

Dreaming of Liszt

A Brahma of the keyboard

Contemporary Bran

A mood reactionary

Musical "Potterism"

My "Childe Roland"

"Oscar" and Dvorak

Enrico Caruso.

Notes:

With half-title

"Published November, 1921."

"Mr. Huneker's literary career was at its flood when ended by his sudden and unlooked for death. He was perhaps our only, certainly our chief, literary journalist, and his instructive, penetrating, and, above all, entertaining criticism in the field of what he liked to call the Seven Arts was almost always first seen in the periodical press, daily or weekly. Afterward it was sifted and the residue abridged or expanded, burnished or simplified, in its assimilation to appropriate permanent style and stuff. Needless to say it lost none of its brilliance in the process ..."--Publisher's Note.

OCLC:

397819