The Hidden Chorus: Echoes of Genre in Tragic Lyric
Author(s): L. A. Swift (Author)
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- Publication Date: February 28, 2010
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 472 pages
- ISBN-10: 0199577846
- ISBN-13: 9780199577842
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