Word Like a Bell: John Keats, Music and the Romantic PoetKent State University Press, 1992 - 218 pagina's Music was supremely important to the Romantic poets, particularly to John Keats. In this first book-length study on the subject, John A. Minahan explores Keats's work in relation to the art of music. Word Like a Bell considers Keats's major poems as well as his letters and minor verse. Writing in a jargon-free style, Minahan examines the relationship between the musical and literary manifestations of Romantic theory, and the connection between that theory and Keats's work. He then offers new insights into Keats's poetry and his era, among them a detailed explanation of why the "Great Odes" ought to be considered a single extended piece. Also receiving extensive treatment are Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley, Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven, whose ideas and creations illustrate how music influences every aspect of Romantic thought. In his exploration of the relationship between different but related arts, Minahan both locates Romanticism in its historical and aesthetic context and expands the capabilities of literary criticism. He finds that music enables Romanticism to voice its fundamental concern about time and its passage, and shows us that an understanding of poetry's relation to music can enrich our appreciation of both arts while deepening our own experiences of time. This interdisciplinary study will appeal to readers of poetry and literary criticism and to professional musicians who would increase their understanding of an age's art, songwriters interested in word/music relations, and poets who crave an extensive discussion of poetic technique and craft that uses music as a way to clarify such points. |
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... passing as never before ) ; improve- ments in historical inquiry give the past both largeness and texture ( we know what has been happening , and we know that it has been happen- ing for a long time ) . The Romantics manifest this view ...
... passing as never before ) ; improve- ments in historical inquiry give the past both largeness and texture ( we know what has been happening , and we know that it has been happen- ing for a long time ) . The Romantics manifest this view ...
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... passing - away - ness . I accept the passing- away - ness not because of imagination , the faculty that provides many- at - once , but because of fancy , the faculty that provides a picture of what is not here , not now . Things grow ...
... passing - away - ness . I accept the passing- away - ness not because of imagination , the faculty that provides many- at - once , but because of fancy , the faculty that provides a picture of what is not here , not now . Things grow ...
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... passing and not passing here . ' The manipu- lation of this complex temporality within the poem is one of Keats's greatest achievements . The first stanza is loaded and blessed with images of stillness , fullness , ripeness , readiness ...
... passing and not passing here . ' The manipu- lation of this complex temporality within the poem is one of Keats's greatest achievements . The first stanza is loaded and blessed with images of stillness , fullness , ripeness , readiness ...
Inhoudsopgave
The Varieties of Musical Experience | 29 |
Words Music and Interpretation | 59 |
The Romantic Uses of Sound | 98 |
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