Poetics of Music in the Form of Six LessonsTimeless lessons on the pleasures of listening, the dilemmas of composition, and the meaning of artistic freedom from a founder of musical modernism. In October 1939, Igor Stravinsky took the stage at Harvard not as a conductor but as a speaker. Invited to deliver the prestigious Norton Lectures, he had departed Europe just days after the outbreak of war, leaving behind not only a growing political maelstrom but also his life in France, where his

It does not always work – over the centuries countless thousands of poems have been forgotten

Henry Sidgwick

He not only offers practical advice but also considers larger questions about the value of the thesis-writing exercise in six different parts:

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from the philosophers of ancient Greece to the poets of the Romantic Age

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Beinart imagines an alternate narrative

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as a young boy growing up in Benghazi

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prophetic sayings

Perhaps the most widely read thinker of all time