Sound and Song in Poetry: Music as a Form of Explication

Research Article| March 01 2009 Sound and Song in Poetry: Music as a Form of Explication Elissa S. Guralnick Elissa S. Guralnick University of Colorado at Boulder elissa.guralnick@colorado.edu Elissa Guralnick is professor of English, College of Music, University of Colorado at Boulder. Her interest in words and music dates back to her book Sight Unseen: Beckett, Stoppard and Other Contemporary Dramatists on Radio (Ohio University Press, 1996), one chapter of which addresses “The Musical Challenge” through analysis of radio plays by Robert Ferguson, Samuel Beckett, and John Cage. Her essay “‘Ah, Clara, I Am Not Worthy of Your Love’; Re-Reading Frauenliebe und Leben, the Poetry and the Music” (Music and Letters 87:4 [2006]: 580–605) forms the basis for a theater piece devised by Elizabeth Mansfield, “Clara's Gift,” presented in November 2008 as a special event for Leeds Lieder, a biennial international festival of art song. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google English Language Notes (2009) 47 (1): 173–180. https://doi.org/10.1215/00138282-47.1.173 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Elissa S. Guralnick; Sound and Song in Poetry: Music as a Form of Explication. English Language Notes 1 March 2009; 47 (1): 173–180. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/00138282-47.1.173 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search Books & JournalsAll JournalsEnglish Language Notes Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. Copyright © 2009 Regents of the University of Colorado2009 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.