{"product_id":"9781802078312-musical-wordsworth","title":"Musical Wordsworth: Romantic Soundscape and Harmony: 97 (Liverpool English Texts and Studies","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eRomantic Soundscape and Harmony\u003cbr\u003eIn his Essay of 1815, Wordsworth asserts that ‘a pure and refined scheme of harmony’ mustprevail in all ‘higher poetry’. This idea of a structured and complex form of ‘harmony’ was similarly noted earlier in \u003ci\u003eThe Prelude\u003c\/i\u003e (1805), where Wordsworth famously claimed that the human mind is ‘framed even like the breath \/ And harmony of music’.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMusical Wordsworth \u003c\/i\u003epresents an original understanding of Wordsworthian harmony by examining an organised but dynamic sense of musicality that shapes his poetic theory and practice. This book is the first study to draw on music psychology and aesthetics to interpret the function and mechanism of Wordsworth’s aural structure and movement. Engaging with scholarship from the fields of literature and music, it defines Wordsworth’s poetry and the imagination through musical conceptions, and establishes various modes and forms of poetic listening as experiences of musical performance and appreciation. Each chapter explores a pair of musical abstractions – Lyricism and Musicality; Breath and Harmony; Repetition and Resonance; Expectation and Surprise; Rhythm and Dynamics; Rest and Silence. \u003ci\u003eMusical Wordsworth\u003c\/i\u003e will be of interest to students and researchers of Romantic poetry, long nineteenth-century literature, and music.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53596231139702,"sku":"9781802078312","price":133.39,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_25651714.jpg?v=1731441810","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781802078312-musical-wordsworth","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}