| Music Lessons: Newcastle/Bloodaxe Poetry Lectures Contributor(s): Sampson, Fiona (Author) |
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ISBN: 1852249099 ISBN-13: 9781852249090 Publisher: Bloodaxe Books OUR PRICE: $15.26 Product Type: Paperback Published: June 2011 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh - Literary Criticism | Poetry |
| Dewey: 811 |
| Series: Newcastle/Bloodaxe Poetry |
| Physical Information: 0.3" H x 5.4" W x 8.3" (0.30 lbs) 72 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: It's almost a cliche that music and poetry are cousins, and that the term lyric names this cousinship. Yet the actual forms music takes within poetry are unclear, even contested. At the same time, our assumptions about these forms condition the ways we hear poetry. So it's useful to us as both readers and writers to discover where the analogies between music and poetry are. Fiona Sampson's Music Lessons outlines some of these, using ideas and examples from Martin Heidegger to J.S. Bach, Emily Dickinson to Leonard Cohen, and George Herbert to Julia Kristeva. Her first lecture, Point Counter-point, uses melody to suggest a link between poetic line, phrase and breath. Here is my space explores how pure, abstract forms can be created in time in the same way that they are created in space. Finally, How strange the change looks at sensuous apprehension and the pleasure principle. |
