 First edition cover | |
| Author | Anthony Powell |
|---|---|
| Cover artist | James Broom-Lynne |
| Language | English |
| Series | A Dance to the Music of Time |
Release number | 12 |
| Publisher | Heinemann |
Publication date | 1975 |
| Media type | |
| Preceded by | Temporary Kings |
Hearing Secret Harmonies is the final novel in Anthony Powell's twelve-volume series, A Dance to the Music of Time.[1] It was published in 1975, twenty-four years after the first book, A Question of Upbringing, appeared in 1951. No other novel series is based on the formal pictorial principles as A Dance to the Music of Time.[2] The book ends with a torrential passage from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton.[3]
- ^ Gowrie, Grey (2016). "The End of the Dance." Secret Harmonies 6/7 (Autumn 2016):96-111.
- ^ Bayley, John. (1987). "The Ikon and the Music," in The Album of Anthony Powell’s "Dance to the Music of Time." Thames and Hudson, p.10.
- ^ McSweeney, Kerry; "The End of A Dance to the Music of Time," South Atlantic Quarterly. (Winter 1977):44-57.