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In his discussion of Ralph Vaughan Williams, Hubert Foss says that Vaughan Williams’s “... mystical thoughts may soar ... but he himself remains tied to the essential earthiness, the actuality of our music. The material he prefers is the song of the common man.... His sublime is attained by a climb up a ladder that stands on the soil...”1 In Vaughan Williams’s case, this is invariably English soil.
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Foss, Hubert. Ralph Vaughan Williams: A Study by Lukas Foss ( London: Harrap, 1950 ), p. 42.
Monk, Samuel H. The Sublime: A Study of Critical Theories in VXIII-Century England ( Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1960 ), p. 12.
Dionysius Longinus on the Sublime, translated from the Greek by William Smith, D. D. The Fourth Edition Corrected and Improved (London, 1770 ), p. 3.
Heidegger, Martin. The Basic Problems of Phenomenology. Translated by Albert Hofstadter, rev. ed. ( Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1982 ), p. 22.
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Foss, Hubert, op. cit., p. 81.
Ibid., p. 83.
Kennedy, Michael. The Works of Ralph Vaughan Williams ( New York: Oxford University Press, 1980 ), p. 78.
Foss, Hubert, op. cit., p. 82.
Ibid.
Kennedy, Michael, op. cit., p. 78.
bid., p. 79.
Foss, Hubert. op. cit., p. 84.
Kennedy, Michael, op. cit., p. 79.
Foss, Hubert, op. cit., p. 83.
Ibid., pp. 83–84.
Kennedy, Michael, op. cit., p. 79.
Foss, Hubert, op. cit., p. 83.
Ibid.
Ibid., p. 84.
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Tibbetts, G.R. (2000). Culture and the Sublime: Ralph Vaughan Williams’s the House of Life as an Expression of the English Experience. In: Tymieniecka, AT. (eds) The Poetry of Life in Literature. Analecta Husserliana, vol 69. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-3431-8_12
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