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By Iain Fenlon. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. [xvi, 265 p. ISBN 0-19-816444-0. 30 [pounds sterling].] Illustrations, bibliography, index.
Philip Larkin said of literary journalism that he found reading the books hard, thinking of something to say about them hard, and saying it hardest of all. Collections of essays pose special challenges, since they may lack the organicism characteristic of books conceived along other lines. Fortunately, few reviewers, if any, would find lain Fenlon's book hard to read, since his arguments are expressed in a graceful prose that renders his subject matter entirely accessible to readers. Nor is it hard to think of ...
Source: HighBeam Research, Music and Culture in Late Renaissance Italy.(Book Review)