Abstract

Contents: Introduction Part 1 Overture: Setting the Stage for Shelley's Ideas on Music: Shelley's musical background The role of musical aesthetics in Shelley's A Defence of Poetry. Part 2 'When music and moonlight and feeling/Are one': Musical Metaphors and the Kinetics of Language in Shelley's Poetry: Prologue 'Her voice was like the voice of his own soul': music and silence in Alastor, or The Spirit of Solitude Prometheus Unbound, Part I: language, music and the visionary imagination. Part 3 Lyrical Harmony: Shelleyan Poetic Form and the Sister Arts: Prometheus Unbound, Part II: correspondences between music, drama and poetic form in Shelley's lyrical drama '[A]re we not formed as notes of music are': musical aesthetics, love, and politics in Shelley's lyrics Appendix Works cited Index.

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