Lyric Cousins: Poetry and Musical Form

by Fiona Sampson

Book Overview

Leading poet, critic and former musician explores the 'deep forms' common to both poetry and music
Today, poetry and art music occupy similar cultural positions: each has a tendency to be regarded as problematic, 'difficult' and therefore 'elitist'. Despite this, the audiences and numbers of participants for each are substantial: yet they tend not to overlap. This is odd, because the forms share early history in song and saga, and have...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 147443262X
• ISBN13: 9781474432627
• Release Date: February 2018
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 8.5"