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books by M. Owen Lee

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1. Opera 2. Wagner 3. Music, Questing and Film 4. Latin Poetry 5. Personal Memoirs, Poetry and Basilians

1. his books on Opera and Operas

FIRST INTERMISSIONS
Second edition :
“Revised and Enlarged”

Limelight Editions: 2002, 2004
A SEASON OF OPERA :
from Orpheus to Ariadne


University of Toronto Press: 1998, 2000
THE OPERAGOER’S GUIDE :
One Hundred Stories

and Commentaries

Amadeus Press, Portland, Oregon: 2001
FATHER LEE’S
OPERA QUIZ BOOK

University of Toronto Press: 2000

2. his books on Richard Wagner

WAGNER’S RING :
TURNING THE SKY ROUND
An Introduction to
The Ring of Nibelung

Limelight Editions: 2004
WAGNER : THE TERRIBLE MAN
AND HIS TRUTHFUL ART

University of Toronto Press: 1999
WAGNER AND
THE WONDER OF ART
An Introduction to
Die Meistersinger

University of Toronto Press: 2007
ATHENA SINGS :
WAGNER AND THE GREEKS

University of Toronto Press: 2003

3. his books on Music, Questing and Film

THE GREAT
INSTRUMENTAL WORKS

Amadeus Press: 2005
THE OLIVE TREE BED
AND OTHER QUESTS

University of Toronto Press: 1997
TOP TEN :
A PERSONAL APPROACH
TO THE MOVIES

Vantage Press: 1973
THE BEST FILMS
OF OUR YEARS

Author House: 2007

4. his books on Latin lyric and epic poetry

WORD, SOUND AND IMAGE
IN THE ODES OF HORACE

Clark, Irwin and Company: 1969
FATHERS AND SONS
IN VIRGIL’S AENEID

State University of New York,
Albany 1979
DEATH AND REBIRTH
IN VIRGIL’S ARCADIA :
A STUDY OF THE ECLOGUES

State University of New York Press, Albany 1989
VIRGIL AS ORPHEUS :
A STUDY OF THE GEORGICS

State University of New York Press, Albany 1996

6. his personal Memoir, his short poems, and his brother Basilians

A BOOK OF HOURS:
Music, Literature and Life

The Continuum International Publishing Group : 2004
TRAVELING LIGHT

Privately published by
the Basilian Press : 2008
SOME BASILIANS

Privately published by
the Basilian Press : 2012