Longer Views (76 page)

Voyages
(Crane),
184
,
186
,
187
,
200
,
205
,
214
,
239

“Voyages I,”
239
,
246

“Voyages II,”
184
,
185

W. H. Auden: Collected Poems
(Auden),
240

“Waddah and Om-El-Bonain” (Thomson [B.V.]),
228

Wagner, Cosima,
3
,
39
,
43
,
70

Wagner, Joanna,
1

Wagner, Klara,
61

Wagner, Minna Planer,
48
,
57
,
61

Wagner, Richard,
x
,
xxvi
–
xxx
,
1
–3,
16
–23,
31
–34,
37
,
39
–76,
78
–84,
103
,
203
,
204

“An einen Staatsanwalt,”
52

Art and Revolution
,
3
,
16
,
48
,
63

The Artwork of the Future
,
3
,
16
,
48

“Germany and its Princes,”
52

Götterdämmerung
,
55
,
83
,
203
,
204

“Greetings from Saxony to the Viennese,”
52

“Here Comes the Bride,”
21

“Jewry in Music,”
3
,
48
,
57
,
67
,
72

Liebestod
,
21

Lohengrin
,
21
,
45
,
56
,
59
,
61
,
73

Mein Leben
,
43
–45,
47
–54,
60
,
64
,
67

Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
,
18

“Die Noth,”
52

Opera and Drama
,
3
,
16
,
48
,
71

Parsifal
,
69
,
70
,
74
,
204

“Prose Sketch” for
Ring
cycle,
56
,
61

“Revolution,”
53
,
63

Das Rheingold
,
69
,
83

“The Ride of the Valkyries,”
21

Rienzi
,
16
,
45

Der Ring des Nibelungen
,
21
,
22
,
40
,
42
,
48
,
49
,
53
,
54
,
56
,
57
,
63
,
66
,
68
–70,
72
,
74
,
76
,
79
,
83
,
203

Siegfried
,
69

Siegfrieds Tod
,
56
,
57

Tannhäuser
,
1
,
45

Tristan und Isolde
,
16
,
21
,
22
,
44
,
68
,
80
,
204

Die Walküre
,
16
,
21
,
203
,
204

“The Wibelungs: World History as Revealed in Saga,”
54

Wagner Rehearsing the Ring
(Porges),
70
,
71

Walker, Kenneth,
242

Gurdjieff's Teaching
,
242

Walküre, Die
(Wagner),
16
,
21
,
203
,
204

Walser, Robert,
151

“Wanderer, The” (Williams),
189

“Wanderings of Cain, The” (Coleridge),
145

Warren, David,
297

Waste Land, The
(Eliot),
72
,
82
,
166
,
174
,
193
,
201
,
206
,
208
,
228
,
230
,
233
,
239

We Who Are About To
. . . (Russ),
xxxii
,
91
,
147
–149

Weber, Brom,
192
,
238
–243

Webern, Anton von,
17
,
80

Weideger, Paula,
139

History's Mistress
,
139

Weiner, Norbert,
89

Well of Loneliness, The
(Hall),
141

Weller, Mathilda,
231
–233

Wells, H. G.,
146
,
260

The Food of the Gods
,
260

Things to Come
,
146

Wesendonk, Mathilde von,
44

Weston, Jessie L.,
72

From Ritual to Romance
,
72

The Legends of the Wagner Dramas
,
72

Whalen, Philip,
259

What (Silliman),
170

“What Do You Do Sunday, Mary” (Caesar),
189

What Entropy Means to Me
(Effinger),
258

What's O'Clock
(Lowell),
209

Wheatfield with Crows
(van Gogh),
8

Wheelright, John Brooks,
198

White, E. B.,
xvii

White, Edmund,
xvi

White, Louise,
103

White Buildings
(Crane),
194
,
224
,
238

Whitman, Walt,
15
,
139
,
191
–193,
205
,
218
–222,
224
,
237
,
259

Leaves of Grass
,
219

“Passage to India,”
192
,
219
,
221

“Prayer of Columbus,”
219

Specimen Days
,
220

“To One Shortly to Die,”
220

“Wibelungs: World History as Revealed in Saga, The” (Wagner),
54

Wild Seed
(Butler),
116

Wilde, Oscar,
33
,
139
,
182
,
202
,
215

The Picture of Dorian Gray
,
202

Wilhelm, August,
230

William Tell
overture (Rossini),
21

Williams, Oscar,
238

Williams, Tennessee,
197
n

Summer and Smoke
,
197
n

Williams, William Carlos,
189
,
191
,
209
,
226

In the American Grain
,
189
,
226

“The Wanderer,”
189

Wilson, Edmund,
209

Wilson, Robert,
17

Winters, Yvor,
191
–193,
198
–201,
216
,
217
,
223
,
241
–243

The Bare Hills
,
199

On Modern Poets
,
192

“The Significance of
The Bridge
by Hart Crane . . .,”
192
,
199

Wittgenstein, Ludwig,
xvii
,
xxv
,
263
,
282
,
319

Tractatus
,
265

Witton-Doris, John,
257

Woman: A Historical, Gynecological and Anthropological Compendium
(Ploss),
139

Woolf, F. A.,
164

Woolf, Virginia,
32

Woolsey, John M.,
186

“Words” (Greenberg),
245

Wordsworth, William,
35
,
145
,
180
,
181

Lyrical Ballads
,
180

“Ruth,”
145

“The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction” (Benjamin),
76

World of Trouble, A
(Toomey),
258

Writing Life, The
(Dillard),
xiv

Yarbro, Chelsea Quinn,
90

Yeats, William Butler,
27
,
32
,
199

Yingling, Thomas,
194
,
195
,
198
,
199
,
202
,
210
,
218

Hart Crane and the Homosexual Text
,
194
,
218

You Bright and Risen Angels
(Vollmann),
166

Young Törless
(Musil),
141
,
205

Zeffirelli, Franco,
18

Zukofsky, Louis,
166
,
167

“A,”
166
,
167

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About the Author

Samuel R. Delany is Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. His many books include the Return to Nevèrÿon series,
Dhalgren
, and
Trouble on Triton
, reissued by Wesleyan University Press;
Atlantis: Three Tales
(1995),
Silent Interviews
(1994),
The Motion of Light in Water
(1987), and
Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand
(1984).

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Delany, Samuel R.

Longer Views : extended essays / Samuel R. Delany ; with an introduction by Ken James,

p.    cm.

Includes index.

ISBN 0–8195–5281–X (alk. paper).

ISBN 0–8195–6293–9 (pbk. : alk paper)

I. Title.

PS3554.E437L66      1996

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