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Format: X, 218 S.

ISBN: 0873384539

Content: 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.

Language: English

Subjects: English Studies

Keywords: Keats, John 1795-1821 ; Sprache ; Musik ; Keats, John 1795-1821 ; Musik ; Musik ; Lyrik ; Englisch ; Geschichte 1790-1830 ; Englisch ; Lyrik ; Romantik ; Musik ; Keats, John 1795-1821 ; Musik ; Romantik ; Literatur ; Englisch ; Musik ; Englisch ; Literatur ; Musik ; Geschichte 1780-1830

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Format: 1 Online-Ressource (VI, 332 Seiten)

ISBN: 9783110486339 , 9783110484984

Series Statement: Narratologia Volume 55

Content: Lyric poetry as a temporal art-form makes pervasive use of narrative elements in organizing the progressive course of the poetic text. This observation justifies the application of the advanced methodology of narratology to the systematic analysis of lyric poems. After a concise presentation of this transgeneric approach to poetry, the study sets out to demonstrate its practical fruitfulness in detailed analyses of a large number of English (and some American) poems from the early modern period to the present. The narratological approach proves particularly suited to focus on the hitherto widely neglected dimension of sequentiality, the dynamic progression of the poetic utterance and its eventful turns, which largely constitute the raison d'être of the poem. To facilitate comparisons, the examples chosen share one special thematic complex, the traumatic experience of severe loss: the death of a beloved person, the imminence of one’s own death, the death of a revered fellow-poet and the loss of a fundamental stabilizing order. The function of the poems can be described as facing the traumatic experience in the poetic medium and employing various coping strategies. The poems thus possess a therapeutic impetus.

Note: Frontmatter -- -- Table of Contents -- -- 1. Introduction -- -- 2. Mourning the Death of a Beloved Person -- -- 2.0. Introduction -- -- 2.1. Ben Jonson: “On My First Daughter” (1593) and “On My First Son” (1603) -- -- 2.2. John Donne: “Since She Whom I Loved” (1617) and John Milton: “Methought I Saw My Late Espoused Saint” (1658) -- -- 2.3. Lord Byron: “Away, Away, Ye Notes of Woe” (1811) and “And Thou art Dead, as Young and Fair” (1812) -- -- 2.4. Edgar Allan Poe: “Lenore” (1844–1849) -- -- 2.5. Seamus Heaney: “Mid-Term Break” (1966) -- -- 2.6. Eavan Boland: “The Blossom” (1998) and “The Pomegranate” (1994) -- -- 2.7. Summary -- -- 3. Coping with Loss in Love -- -- 3.0. Introduction -- -- 3.1. William Shakespeare: The Sonnets (1609) -- -- 3.2. John Donne: “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning” (1633) -- -- 3.3. William Wordsworth: “Lucy Poems” (1800, 1801/1807) -- -- 3.4. Emily Dickinson: “After Great Pain” (ca. 1862) -- -- 3.5. Thomas Hardy: “The Voice” (1912/14) -- -- 3.6. Sylvia Plath: “The Other” (1962) -- -- 3.7. Ted Hughes: Birthday Letters (1998) -- -- 3.8. Summary -- -- 4. Confronting One’s Own Death -- -- 4.0. Introduction -- -- 4.1. Sir Walter Raleigh: “Verses Made the Night before He Died” (1618) and Chidiock Tichborne: “Elegy” (1586) -- -- 4.2. John Donne: “What if this Present were the World’s Last Night” (1609/1611) -- -- 4.3. William Cowper: “The Castaway” (1799/1800) -- -- 4.4. John Keats: “When I have Fears that I May Cease to be” (1818) and Lord Byron: “On this Day I Complete my Thirty-Sixth Year” (1824) -- -- 4.5. Emily Dickinson: “Because I Could not Stop for Death” (ca. 1863) -- -- 4.6. Rupert Brooke: “The Soldier” (1914) and Wilfred Owen: “Strange Meeting” (1918) -- -- 4.7. D. H. Lawrence: “Bavarian Gentians” (1932) -- -- 4.8. Summary -- -- 5. Lamenting the Death of Poets -- -- 5.0. Introduction -- -- 5.1. Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey: “An Excellent Epitaph of Sir Thomas Wyatt” (1542) -- -- 5.2. Thomas Carew: “An Elegy upon the Death of the Dean of Paul’s, Dr John Donne” (1633) -- -- 5.3. Percy Bysshe Shelley: “Adonais: An Elegy on the Death of John Keats” (1821) -- -- 5.4. W. H. Auden: “In Memory of W. B. Yeats” (1939) -- -- 5.5. Seamus Heaney: “Audenesque: in memory of Joseph Brodsky” (1996) -- -- 5.6. Summary -- -- 6. Thematizing the Loss of an Old Order -- -- 6.0. Introduction -- -- 6.1. John Donne: An Anatomy of the World (1611) and William Shakespeare: The Sonnets (1609) -- -- 6.2. William Wordsworth: “The World is too Much with Us” (1807) and W. B. Yeats: “High Talk” (1939) -- -- 6.3. Percy Bysshe Shelley: “Lift not the Painted Veil” (1818/1824) and “The Cloud” (1819/1820) -- -- 6.4. Matthew Arnold: “Dover Beach” (1851) and Gerard Manley Hopkins: “No Worst, there is None” (ca. 1885) -- -- 6.5. T. S. Eliot: The Waste Land (1922) and “Journey of the Magi” (1930) -- -- 6.6. W. B. Yeats: “Lapis Lazuli” (1938) -- -- 6.7. Tony Harrison: “A Kumquat for John Keats” (1981) -- -- 6.8. Summary -- -- 7. Conclusion: Summary and Results -- -- Index (authors and titles) , Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. , In English

Additional Edition: ISBN 9783110484229

Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Hühn, Peter, 1939 - Facing loss and death Berlin : De Gruyter, 2016 ISBN 9783110484229

Additional Edition: ISBN 3110484226

Additional Edition: Available in another form ISBN 978-3-11-048422-9

Language: English

Subjects: English Studies

Keywords: Englisch ; Lyrik ; Verlust ; Psychisches Trauma ; Erzähltechnik ; Geschichte

DOI: 10.1515/9783110486339

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Author information: Schenk-Haupt, Stefan 1974-

Author information: Hühn, Peter 1939-

Author information: Goerke, Britta