Every valley: the desperate lives and troubled times that made Handel's Messiah

Part I Portents. "The Famous Mr. Hendel"

"An undertaking so hazardous"

Jacobites

Grub Street

Yahoos

Part II Sorrows and Grief. The Hyp and the prodigious

Oratorio

"Dying by inches"

A design for rescuing

The book of Job

Scorn

Foundlings

The return of a Prince

Part III Resurrection. To the Hibernian Shore

Fishamble

"Hope is a curtail dog"

Anthems and choruses

Exalted

Epilogue.

Portents. "The famous Mr. Hendel" ; "An undertaking so hazardous" ; Jacobites ; Grub Street ; Yahoos

Sorrows and grief. The hyp and the prodigious ; Oratorio ; "Dying by inches" ; A design for rescuing ;' The Book of Job ; Scorn ; Foundlings ; The return of a prince

Resurrection. To the Hibernian shore ; Fishable ; "Hope is a curtail dog" ; ANthems and choruses ; Exalted

Epilogue

Charles Jennens's Messiah libretto.