Abstract

Acknowledgements A note on transliteration Part I. On the Relationship Between Music and Poetry: 1. Music and poetry: statement of the problem 2. The significance of music for the romantics and symbolists: evaluation of the 'word' 3. The influence of Wagner on the symbolists: a new evaluation of the 'word' 4. Bely, Mallarme and Verlaine and their approach to music 5. Bely and the music of his time Part II. Bely's Musical Devices: 6. Bely's verbal orchestration 7. Vowel orchestration 8. Consonantal orchestration 9. the concept of dissonance in music: Prokofiev and Bely 10. Bely's dissonances: their 'preparation' and 'resolution' 11. On 'polyphony' 12. Bely's synaesthesia: Baudelaire's 'Corressondances' as interpreted by Bely 13. Rimbaud's sonnet 'Voyelles' and his influence on Bely: The importance of Gogol's 'Craftsmanship' 14. Bely's original solution to the problem of synaesthesia Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index.

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