George Frederick Handel

This poem's subject is the love-affair of Semele with Jove. Semele wished to see Jove in his true, not assumed form; when he complied and appeared as godhead she was burned to death in his...

Roland Graeme, Knight incorporates wide-ranging allusions to figures such as Goethe , Dickens , Browning , Ruskin , Thoreau , Tennyson , Carlyle , and Handel . Critic Carole Gerson compares it to earlier nineteenth-century...

Juanita sounds overtly like a conventional song of love-longing, but a musical allusion to Handel 'opera Rinaldo (the aria Lascia ch'io pianga) invokes the idea of a woman imprisoned and suffering.

He had been organist at the parish church of Finchley, and had sung in Handel 's operas and oratorios. His new position meant the choirboys lodged in his house. William got excellent results from his...

Her father taught her music and she had the privilege of learning to play on a family treasure, a spinet originally belonging to Handel .

The novel's three apparently unconnected characters are breast surgeon Handel (erstwhile boy chorister, castrato, and Catholic priest; not the same as yet reminiscent of George Frederick Handel ), Picasso (a young woman whose family opposes...