The Washington Post, January 17th, 1993
THE GREAT MELODY A Thematic Biography and Commented Anthology of Edmund Burke By Conor Cruise O'Brien University of Chicago Press. 692 pp. $34.95 THE "Great Melody" of the title of this book about the 18th- century statesman and philosopher Edmund Burke refers to the several themes that occur in eloquent succession in his political career: Ireland, India, America and France. The word "melody" comes from "The Seven Sages," a poem partly about Burke by W.B. Yeats ("American colonies, Ireland, France and India/ Harried, and Burke's great melody against it"). Paradoxically Conor Cruise O'Brien ...
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