• "Immortal Harps": Milton and musical morality in Handel's Samson 

    Hobbs, Katherine (University of Missouri, College of Arts and Sciences, 2016)
    Concluding paragraphs: "If Handel's contemporary James Harris is correct in observing that music and poetry "can never be so powerful singly, as when they are properly united," (152) and that Handel's "Genius ... being ...