Steven Matthews's Ceaseless Music: Sounding Wordsworth’s The Prelude (Beyond PDF

By Steven Matthews

ISBN-10: 1474232779

ISBN-13: 9781474232777

ISBN-10: 1474232787

ISBN-13: 9781474232784

via a chain of poetic responses and demanding reflections, Ceaseless Music explores the afterlives of Wordsworth's landmark autobiographical poem The Prelude in literature, philosophy and existence writing, including the insights it may well supply into the writing of poetry today.

Beginning with an exploration of the poem's genesis, from draft models present in Wordsworth's notebooks onwards, the publication is going directly to sound out The Prelude's radical types of selfhood via its cognizance to the 'musics' of position and of expertise. The scope of the ebook levels from biographical writings, to American literature and philosophy, neuroscience, musicology, and British and American poetries. The reader will detect new inventive paintings in numerous modes, including many re-echoings of Wordworth's textual content in later writers, throughout historical past, and from around the globe.

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