Poe and the Idea of Music
Author | : Charity McAdams |
Publisher | : Perspectives on Edgar Allan Po |
Total Pages | : 170 |
Release | : 2017 |
ISBN-13 | : 1611462045 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781611462043 |
Rating | : 4/5 (43 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis Poe and the Idea of Music by : Charity McAdams
Download or read book Poe and the Idea of Music written by Charity McAdams and published by Perspectives on Edgar Allan Po. This book was released on 2017 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Charity McAdams discusses how Edgar Allan Poe uses music to set the scenes of his stories and poems. McAdams shows how the musical ideas used by Poe mimic the ways other authors, particularly Romanticists, used music in their works to represent a spiritually ideal artistic realm, and ultimately, how we can look at Poe's poems and stories through music to unpack the mysticism of Poe's work.