~
OXFORD books of exceptional interest
Alexander Pope
The Poetry of Allusion
By REUBEN ARTHUR BROWER.
"An
aecount of Pope's
poetry as a whole, doing justice to every part of it, and ex–
tricating the logic of his development throughout his career. . •
a work of scholarship and of literary criticism .•. judicious,
sensitive •.. scholarly."-New
Statesman.
$5.60
The Diaries of John Ruskin, 1874-1889
Selected and edited by JOAN EVANS and JOHN HOWARD
WHITEHOUSE. This is the third and final volume of Ruskin's
diaries which cover the greater part of his life and are full of
the acute observations that made him one of the great Vic–
torian word painters. The first two volumes are still available
and each at the same price as this volume. 8
halftones. $11.20
The Language of Music
By DERYCK COOKE. This study argues that music is an
abstract language of emotion.
It
uses hundreds of music ex–
amples, ranging from plainsong to Stravinsky, to illustrate the
contention that all composers whose music has a tonal basis
have used very similar melodic phrases, harmonies, and rhythms
to express and evoke the same emotions. Finally it demonstrates
the expressive functioning of form by analyzing two complete
symphonies.
$4.80
Arthurian Literature
in
the Middles Ages
A Collaborative History
Edited by ROGER SHERMAN LOOMIS. Thirty-one experts
have contributed articles to this volume on such subjects as:
the Arthur of history, Arthur in early Welsh verse, oral dif–
fusion of the Arthurian legend, and the like. Among the con–
tributors are the editor, J. Frappier, E. Hoepffner, L. H.
Loomis, M. R. L. de Malkiel, H. Newstead, W. A. Nitze, O.
Springer, and E. Vinaver.
8
halftones.
$10.10
A
t
all
bookstmes
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
