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Musical Wordsworth

Author : Yimon Lo
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 1837646511
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (376 download)

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Download or read book Musical Wordsworth written by Yimon Lo and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2023-02-15 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his Essay of 1815, Wordsworth asserts that ‘a pure and refined scheme of harmony’ must prevail in all ‘higher poetry’. This idea of a structured and complex form of ‘harmony’ was similarly noted earlier in The Prelude (1805), where Wordsworth famously claimed that the human mind is ‘framed even like the breath / And harmony of music’. Musical Wordsworth presents an original understanding of Wordsworthian harmony by examining an organised but dynamic sense of musicality that shapes his poetic theory and practice. This book is the first study to draw on music psychology and aesthetics to interpret the function and mechanism of Wordsworth’s aural structure and movement. Engaging with scholarship from the fields of literature and music, it defines Wordsworth’s poetry and the imagination through musical conceptions, and establishes various modes and forms of poetic listening as experiences of musical performance and appreciation. Each chapter explores a pair of musical abstractions – Lyricism and Musicality; Breath and Harmony; Repetition and Resonance; Expectation and Surprise; Rhythm and Dynamics; Rest and Silence. Musical Wordsworth will be of interest to students and researchers of Romantic poetry, long nineteenth-century literature, and music.

Wordsworth's Philosophic Song

Author : Simon Jarvis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781139462662
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (626 download)

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Download or read book Wordsworth's Philosophic Song written by Simon Jarvis and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-12-21 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wordsworth wrote that he longed to compose 'some philosophic Song/Of Truth that cherishes our daily life'. Yet he never finished The Recluse, his long philosophical poem. Simon Jarvis argues that Wordsworth's aspiration to 'philosophic song' is central to his greatness, and changed the way English poetry was written. Some critics see Wordworth as a systematic thinker, while for others he is a poet first, and a thinker only (if at all) second. Jarvis shows instead how essential both philosophy and the 'song' of poetry were to Wordsworth's achievement. Drawing on advanced work in continental philosophy and social theory to address the ideological attacks which have dominated much recent commentary, Jarvis reads Wordsworth's writing both critically and philosophically, to show how Wordsworth thinks through and in verse. This study rethinks the relation between poetry and society itself by analysing the tensions between thinking philosophically and writing poetry.

The Musical Times and Singing-class Circular

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Musical Times and Singing-class Circular written by and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Musical Quarterly

Author : Oscar George Sonneck
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 766 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Musical Quarterly written by Oscar George Sonneck and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 766 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Wordsworth's Ethics

Author : Adam Potkay
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421417022
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book Wordsworth's Ethics written by Adam Potkay and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2015-03-15 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive examination that breathes new life into Wordsworth and the ethical concerns that were vital to his nineteenth-century readers. Why read Wordsworth’s poetry—indeed, why read poetry at all? Beyond any pleasure it might give, can it make one a better or more flourishing person? These questions were never far from William Wordsworth’s thoughts. He responded in rich and varied ways, in verse and in prose, in both well-known and more obscure writings. Wordsworth's Ethics is a comprehensive examination of the Romantic poet’s work, delving into his desire to understand the source and scope of our ethical obligations. Adam Potkay finds that Wordsworth consistently rejects the kind of impersonal utilitarianism that was espoused by his contemporaries James Mill and Jeremy Bentham in favor of a view of ethics founded in relationships with particular persons and things. The discussion proceeds chronologically through Wordsworth’s career as a writer—from his juvenilia through his poems of the 1830s and '40s—providing a valuable introduction to the poet’s work. The book will appeal to readers interested in the vital connection between literature and moral philosophy.

Musical Observer

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 850 pages
Book Rating : 4.U/5 (183 download)

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Download or read book Musical Observer written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 850 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Wordsworth's Poetry of Repetition

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Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192870483
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (928 download)

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Download or read book Wordsworth's Poetry of Repetition written by and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-05-19 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores those moments of repetition, placing them in the early nineteenth century context from which they emerged, and teasing out through extended close attention to the poetry itself the complexities of repetition and recapitulation.

Realism, Representation, and the Arts in Nineteenth-Century Literature

Author : Alison Byerly
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521581165
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (811 download)

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Download or read book Realism, Representation, and the Arts in Nineteenth-Century Literature written by Alison Byerly and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book confronts a significant paradox in the development of literary realism: the very novels that present themselves as purveyors and celebrants of direct, ordinary human experience also manifest an obsession with art that threatens to sabotage their Realist claims. Unlike previous studies of the role of visual art, or music, or theatre in Victorian literature, Realism, Representation, and the Arts in Nineteenth-Century Literature examines the juxtaposition of all of these arts in the works of Charlotte Brontë, William Thackeray, George Eliot, Thomas Hardy, and others. Alison Byerly combines close textual analysis with discussion of relevant ancillary topics to illuminate the place of different arts within nineteenth-century British culture. Her book, which also contains sixteen illustrations, represents an effort to bridge the growing gap between aesthetics and cultural studies.

The Oxford Handbook of British Romanticism

Author : David Duff
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191019704
Total Pages : 800 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of British Romanticism written by David Duff and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-13 with total page 800 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Handbook of British Romanticism offers a comprehensive guide to the literature and thought of the Romantic period, and an overview of the latest research on this topic. Written by a team of international experts, the Handbook analyses all aspects of the Romantic movement, pinpointing its different historical phases and analysing the intellectual and political currents which shaped them. It gives particular attention to devolutionary trends, exploring the English, Scottish, Welsh, and Irish strands in 'British' Romanticism and assessing the impact of the constitutional changes that brought into being the 'United Kingdom' at a time of revolutionary turbulence and international conflict. It also gives extensive coverage to the publishing and reception history of Romantic writing, highlighting the role of readers, reviewers, publishers, and institutions in shaping Romantic literary culture and transmitting its ideas and values. Divided into ten sections, each containing four or five chapters, the Handbook covers key themes and concepts in Romantic studies as well as less chartered topics such as freedom of speech, literature and drugs, Romantic oratory, and literary uses of dialect. All the major male and female Romantic authors are included along with numerous lesser-known writers, the emphasis throughout being on the diversity of Romantic writing and the complexities and internal divisions of the culture that sustained it. The volume strikes a balance between familiarity and novelty to provide an accessible guide to current thinking and a conceptual reorganization of this fast-moving field.

Ceaseless Music

Author : Steven Matthews
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1474232809
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (742 download)

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Download or read book Ceaseless Music written by Steven Matthews and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-04-06 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through a series of poetic responses and critical reflections, Ceaseless Music explores the afterlives of Wordsworth's landmark autobiographical poem The Prelude in literature, philosophy and life writing, together with the insights it can offer into the writing of poetry today. Beginning with an exploration of the poem's genesis, from draft versions found in Wordsworth's notebooks onwards, the book goes on to sound out The Prelude's radical versions of selfhood through its attention to the 'musics' of place and of experience. The scope of the book ranges from biographical writings, to American literature and philosophy, neuroscience, musicology, and British and American poetries. The reader will discover new creative work in various modes, together with many re-echoings of Wordworth's text in later writers, across history, and from across the globe.

Music and the Irish Literary Imagination

Author : Harry White
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191563161
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)

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Download or read book Music and the Irish Literary Imagination written by Harry White and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2008-11-13 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harry White examines the influence of music in the development of the Irish literary imagination from 1800 to the present day. He identifies music as a preoccupation which originated in the poetry of Thomas Moore early in the nineteenth century. He argues that this preoccupation decisively influenced Moore's attempt to translate the 'meaning' of Irish music into verse, and that it also informed Moore's considerable impact on the development of European musical romanticism, as in the music of Berlioz and Schumann. White then examines how this preoccupation was later recovered by W.B. Yeats, whose poetry is imbued with music as a rival presence to language. In its readings of Yeats, Synge, Shaw and Joyce, the book argues that this striking musical awareness had a profound influence on the Irish literary imagination, to the extent that poetry, fiction and drama could function as correlatives of musical genres. Although Yeats insisted on the synonymous condition of speech and song in his poetry, Synge, Shaw and Joyce explicitly identified opera in particular as a generic prototype for their own work. Synge's formal musical training and early inclinations as a composer, Shaw's perception of himself as the natural successor to Wagner, and Joyce's no less striking absorption of a host of musical techniques in his fiction are advanced in this study as formative (rather than incidental) elements in the development of modern Irish writing. Music and the Irish Literary Imagination also considers Beckett's emancipation from the oppressive condition of words in general (and Joyce in particular) through the agency of music, and argues that the strong presence of Mendelssohn, Chopin and Janácek in the works of Brian Friel is correspondingly essential to Friel's dramatisation of Irish experience in the aftermath of Beckett. The book closes with a reading of Seamus Heaney, in which the poet's own preoccupation with the currency of established literary forms is enlisted to illuminate Heaney's abiding sense of poetry as music.

Wordsworth and the Poetics of Air

Author : Thomas H. Ford
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108667392
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (86 download)

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Download or read book Wordsworth and the Poetics of Air written by Thomas H. Ford and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-04-30 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before the ideas we now define as Romanticism took hold the word 'atmosphere' meant only the physical stuff of air; afterwards, it could mean almost anything, from a historical mood or spirit to the character or style of an artwork. Thomas H. Ford traces this shift of meaning, which he sees as first occurring in the poetry of William Wordsworth. Gradually 'air' and 'atmosphere' took on the new status of metaphor as Wordsworth and other poets re-imagined poetry as a textual area of aerial communication - conveying the breath of a transitory moment to other times and places via the printed page. Reading Romantic poetry through this ecological and ecocritical lens Ford goes on to ask what the poems of the Romantic period mean for us in a new age of climate change, when the relationship between physical climates and cultural, political and literary atmospheres is once again being transformed.

The Patriot Poets

Author : Stephen J. Adams
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773555951
Total Pages : 471 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)

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Download or read book The Patriot Poets written by Stephen J. Adams and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2018-11-30 with total page 471 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since before the Declaration of Independence, poets have shaped a collective imagination of nationhood at critical points in American history. In The Patriot Poets Stephen Adams considers major odes and "progress poems" that address America's destiny in the face of slavery, the Civil War, imperialist expansion, immigration, repeated financial boom and bust, gross social inequality, racial and gendered oppression, and the rise of the present-day corporate oligarchy. Adams elucidates how poets in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries addressed political crises from a position of patriotic idealism and how military interventions overseas in Cuba and in the Philippines increasingly caused poets to question the actions of those in power. He traces competing loyalties through major works of writers at both extremes of the political spectrum, from the radical Republican versus Confederate voices of the Civil War, through New Deal liberalism versus the lost-cause propaganda of the defeated South and the conservative isolationism of the 1930s, and after the Second World War, the renewed hope of Black leaders and the existential alienation of Allen Ginsberg's counter-culture. Blazing a new path of critical discourse, Adams questions why America, of all nations, has appeared to rule out politics as a subject fit for poetry. His answer draws connections between familiar touchstones of American poetry and significant yet neglected writing by Philip Freneau, Sidney Lanier, Archibald MacLeish, William Vaughn Moody, Muriel Rukeyser, Genevieve Taggard, Allen Tate, Henry Timrod, Melvin B. Tolson, and others. An illuminating and pioneering work, The Patriot Poets provides a rich understanding of the ambivalent relationship American poets and poems have had with nation, genre, and the public.

Nature in Music and Other Studies in the Tone-poetry of Today

Author : Lawrence Gilman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Nature in Music and Other Studies in the Tone-poetry of Today written by Lawrence Gilman and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Music of the Poets

Author : Eleonore D'Esterre-Keeling
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book The Music of the Poets written by Eleonore D'Esterre-Keeling and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Wordsworth Dictionary of Musical Quotations

Author : Derek Watson
Publisher : NTC/Contemporary Publishing Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Wordsworth Dictionary of Musical Quotations written by Derek Watson and published by NTC/Contemporary Publishing Company. This book was released on 1994 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Joy of Classical Music

Author : Joan Kennedy
Publisher : Main Street Books
ISBN 13 : 0307786102
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book The Joy of Classical Music written by Joan Kennedy and published by Main Street Books. This book was released on 2011-04-20 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who’s Afraid of Classical Music? For years Joan Kennedy, at home, on the campaign trail, and in concert, has shared her love of classical music with adults and children. Now she uses her experience as a teacher and musician to show how you and your family can make music an enriching part of your lives. In this easy-to-understand and reassuring guide, Joan Kennedy explains: • How to start listening to classical music and enjoying what you hear—with a minimum of effort and expense • Creative, fun ways to bring music to your children—both at home and in school • All you and your family will need to enjoy a musical performance: a brief history of classical music, a user-friendly guide to concert rituals, and advice on how to bring your children to concerts—choosing the performances they will enjoy and making sure they get the most out of the experience Also: a glossary of musical terms • lists of the most popular classical pieces and Joan Kennedy’s personal favorites • a guide to further reading • sixteen pages of photographs • foreword by John Williams, former conducter of the Boston Pops and Academy Award–winning composer of the classic film scores for Star Wars, E.T., and Schindler’s List.