Download e-book for kindle: The Figure of Music in Nineteenth-Century British Poetry by Phyllis Weliver

By Phyllis Weliver

ISBN-10: 0754605477

ISBN-13: 9780754605478

How used to be song depicted in and mediated via Romantic and Victorian poetry? this can be the valuable query that this particularly commissioned quantity of essays units out to discover with a purpose to comprehend larger music's position and its importance in nineteenth-century British tradition. Analysing how track took half in and commented on a variety of medical, literary, and cultural discourses, the booklet expands our wisdom of the way track was once significant to the nineteenth-century mind's eye. Like its spouse quantity, the belief of track in Victorian Fiction (Ashgate, 2004) edited by way of Sophie Fuller and Nicky Losseff, this booklet presents a gathering position for literary experiences and musicology, with contributions by way of students located in every one box. parts investigated in those essays contain the Romantic curiosity in nationwide musical traditions; the determine of the Eolian harp within the poetry of Coleridge and Shelley; the habitual topic of song in Blake's verse; settings of Tennyson via Parry and Elgar that exhibit how literary representations of musical principles are refigured in track; George Eliot's use of song in her poetry to discover literary and philosophical subject matters; tune within the verse of Christina and Dante Gabriel Rossetti; the personification of lyric (Sappho) in a track cycle through Granville and Helen Bantock; and song and sexual id within the poetry of Wilde, Symons, Michael box, Beardsley, grey and Davidson.

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