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The Celestial Twins: Poetry and Music through the Ages
H.T. Kirby-Smith
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Hardcover. While recognizing affinities between music and poetry, this work argues that Western poetry is separate from music and the best poetry is a purely verbal art. In Kirby-Smith's view, poetry has always distanced itself from music, while retaining some memory of musical rhythms and organization. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 165 x 34. Weight in Grams: 662.
All art constantly aspires toward the condition of music wrote Walter Pater. While recognizing many affinities between music and poetry, this work argues that poetry in western culture has repeatedly separated itself from musical contexts and that the best poetry is a purely verbal art. The author makes his case by proceeding chronologically and citing numerous examples of specific poems - from Latin, old French, Italian, Anglo-Saxon, modern French, and English. He points out that ancient Greek poetry, including the epics, was part of musical context. By contrast, almost no surviving Latin poetry was written for musical performance, but the ... Read more
All art constantly aspires toward the condition of music wrote Walter Pater. While recognizing many affinities between music and poetry, this work argues that poetry in western culture has repeatedly separated itself from musical contexts and that the best poetry is a purely verbal art. The author makes his case by proceeding chronologically and citing numerous examples of specific poems - from Latin, old French, Italian, Anglo-Saxon, modern French, and English. He points out that ancient Greek poetry, including the epics, was part of musical context. By contrast, almost no surviving Latin poetry was written for musical performance, but the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
University of Massachusetts Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
Massachusetts, United States
ISBN
9781558492257
SKU
V9781558492257
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99-15
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