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A magnificent book by a famous author on perhaps the greatest of all musical works

About the Author

Sir Roger Scruton was a writer and philosopher who held positions at the universities of London, Oxford, Boston and St Andrews and who wrote widely on art, architecture, music and aesthetics. His books include his now classic Short History of Modern Philosophy (1981), The Aesthetics of Music (1997), Death-Devoted Heart- Sex and the Sacred in Wagner's Tristan and Isolde (2004) and The Ring of Truth- The Wisdom of Wagner's Ring of the Nibelung (2016). He was a fellow of the British Academy and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

Reviews

a masterpiece, all told the best book on Wagner I have ever read
*Literary Review*

After reading this book, only the most unadventurous reader would turn down the chance to see Wagner's masterpiece.
*Economist*

Roger Scruton is in many ways the ideal interpreter of the Ring
*The Sunday Times*

Highly original and penetrating ... he writes about the music authoritatively but comprehensibly... lucidly, cogently and even entertainingly
*Literary Review*

Admirably lucid ... a perceptive and detailed account ... constantly enlightening commentary
*Tablet*