Book contents
- Front Matter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- PART 1 ENGLISH ORIGINS OF ENGLISH ORATORIO
- PART II THE PATRIOT LIBRETTO FROM THE EXCISE BILL TO THE JEW BILL: ISRAELITE ORATORIOS AND ENGLISH POLITICS
- Appendix I Libretto authors and sources
- Appendix 2 The oratorios and Methodism
- Notes
- Bibliography of sources cited
- Index
PART 1 - ENGLISH ORIGINS OF ENGLISH ORATORIO
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 September 2009
- Front Matter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- PART 1 ENGLISH ORIGINS OF ENGLISH ORATORIO
- PART II THE PATRIOT LIBRETTO FROM THE EXCISE BILL TO THE JEW BILL: ISRAELITE ORATORIOS AND ENGLISH POLITICS
- Appendix I Libretto authors and sources
- Appendix 2 The oratorios and Methodism
- Notes
- Bibliography of sources cited
- Index
Summary
To judge rightly of an author, we must transport ourselves to his time, and examine what were the wants of his contemporaries, and what were his means of supplying them.
Samuel Johnson, 'Life of Dryden', Lives of the English Poets (1779–81)- Type
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- Handel's Oratorios and Eighteenth-Century Thought , pp. 41 - 42Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1995