The Ring of the NibelungThe scale and grandeur of Wagners The Ring of the Nibelung has no precedent and no successor. It preoccupied Wagner for much of his adult life and revolutionized the nature of opera, the orchestra, the demands on singers and on the audience itself. The four operasThe Rhinegold, The Valkyrie, Siegfried, and Twilight of the Godsare complete worlds, conjuring up extraordinary mythological landscapes through sound as much as staging. Wagner wrote the

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When this volume of Shakespeare’s poems first appeared in 1609

he presents a universal and tragic view of the world: human life lived under the shadow of suffering and death set against a vast and largely unpitying divine background

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these five Christmas stories are now available as part of the Word Cloud Classics series

The debut poetry collection by inaugural National Youth Poet Laureate Amanda Gorman

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