ABSTRACT

[T]he late works of significant artists … are, for the most part, not round, but furrowed, even ravaged. Devoid of sweetness, bitter and spiny, they do not surrender themselves to mere delectation. They lack all the harmony that the classicist aesthetic is in the habit of demanding from works of art, and they show more traces of history than of growth. – Theodor Adorno, “Late Style in Beethoven” (1937)

But seven years I suppose are enough to change every pore of one's skin, & every feeling of one's mind. – Jane Austen to Cassandra Austen, 8 April 1805

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