The Figure of Music in Nineteenth-Century British Poetry (Music in Nineteenth-Century Britain)

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Music Examples -- Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 Scotch Drink & Irish Harps: Mediations of the National Air -- 2 "Suspended" Sense in Alastor: Shelley's Musical Trope and Eighteenth-Century Medical Discourse -- 3 On Music Framed: The Eolian Harp in Romantic Writing -- 4 Music and Inspiration in Blake's Poetry -- 5 "Music their larger soul": George Eliot's "The Legend of Jubal" and Victorian Musicality -- 6 Musical Reactions to Tennyson: Reformulating Musical Imagery in "The Lotos-Eaters"--7 "Monna Innominata" and Christina Rossetti's Audible Unhappiness -- 8 The "silent song" of D.G. Rossetti's The House of Life -- 9 "The Music Spoke for Us": Music and Sexuality in fin-de-si?cle Poetry -- 10 Sappho Recomposed: A Song Cycle by Granville and Helen Bantock -- Index

• | Author: Phyllis Weliver
• | Publisher: Routledge
• | Publication Date: Nov 15, 2016
• | Number of Pages: 288 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1138263567
• | ISBN-13: 9781138263567