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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

URL: Inhaltsverzeichnis

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Format: 1 Online-Ressource

ISBN: 9781316874905

Series Statement: Cambridge studies in Romanticism

Content: "Writing to his friend and mentor Charles Cowden Clarke in March of 1817, John Keats asked 'When shall we see each other again? In Heaven or in Hell, or in deep Places? In crooked Lane are we to meet or on Salisbury Plain? Or jumbled together at Drury Lane door?' (Letters 1.126). By way of Macbeth, Keats's joke encompasses a universe of experience-heaven, hell, London's crooked streets, the mythical English countryside, the textual Shakespeare, the performed Shakespeare-all held together conceptually by the notion of the theater. An intrepid playgoer, Keats knew what it was to visit the street carnival of the theater district, to be 'jumbled up' with the crowds making their way down clogged byways to see Edmund Kean's latest impersonation of Shylock or Richard III. There, Keats implies, the metaphysical and the apocalyptic meet the bodily and the everyday on the threshold of the playhouse where his favorite actor reigns. Yet in a sense the letter imagines two Keatses at once: he is an actor parodying Shakespeare's lines even as he is a would-be audience member off to meet a friend. Both aspects give us a glimpse of how vital theatrical experience was to Keats's sense of himself as a social being"--

Note: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 04 Jan 2019)

Additional Edition: ISBN 9781107183872

Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Mulrooney, Jonathan, 1969 - Romanticism and theatrical experience Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2018 ISBN 9781107183872

Additional Edition: ISBN 1107183871

Language: English

Subjects: General works , English Studies

Keywords: Englisch ; Literatur ; Romantik ; Hazlitt, William 1778-1830 ; Keats, John 1795-1821 ; Kean, Edmund 1787-1833 ; Theater ; Großbritannien ; Presse ; Theaterkritik ; Romantik ; Geschichte ; Bibliografie

DOI: 10.1017/9781316874905

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Format: xii, 223 Seiten , Illustrationen , 22 cm

Edition: First edition

ISBN: 9780230617384 , 0230617387

Series Statement: Nineteenth-century major lives and letters

Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 201-219 , Introduction : Romanticizing the object , "Things forever speaking" and "Objects of all thought" , "Perfectly compatible objects" : Mr. Pitt contemplates Britain and South America , Children as subject and object : Shelley v. Westbrook , "I'll contrive a sylvan room" : certainty and indeterminacy in Charlotte Smith's Beachy Head, the Fables and Other Poems (1807) , "A better guide in ourselves" : objects, Romantic-Protestant ethics, and Fanny Price's individualism , Literal and literary circulation of Amelia Curran's portrait of Percy Shelley , Shelley incinerated , Keats and the impersonal craft of writing , "Tun'd to hymns of perfect love" : the Anglican liturgy as Romantic object in John Keble's The Christian Year , Journeys to the East : Shelley and Novalis , Weighing it again

Language: English

Subjects: English Studies

Keywords: Englisch ; Literatur ; Romantik ; Objekt ; Geschichte 1700-1900

URL: Inhaltsverzeichnis

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