The Music of Time : : Poetry in the Twentieth Century / / John Burnside.

A revelatory and deeply personal history of twentieth-century poetry by prize-winning poet and memoirist John BurnsidePoetry helps us to make sense of our world, transforming what the Russian poet Osip Mandelstam called the "noise of time" into a kind of music. The Music of Time is a uniqu...

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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2020]
©2020
Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (520 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • A NOTE TO THE READER
  • INTRODUCTION
  • GHOSTLY MUSIC IN THE AIR
  • EVERYONE SANG
  • L’INFINITO
  • EINEN REINEN VORGANG
  • THE GRIEF THAT DOES NOT SPEAK
  • THE POWER OF THE VISIBLE
  • A VERY YOUNG POLICEMAN EXPLODING
  • AN OLD CHAOS OF THE SUN
  • WELTENTON
  • LA RAZÓN POÉTICA
  • WHY LOOK AT ANIMALS?
  • A STONY INVITATION TO REFLECT
  • A GOLDEN AGE OF POETRY AND POWER
  • WHERE TURTLES WIN
  • SÓLO TÚ, ALMA MÍA
  • LIKE A STRIPÈD PAIR OF PANTS
  • TANTALUS IN LOVE
  • A GIFT TO THE FUTURE
  • THE PANIC OF THE ADVERSARY
  • THE BAT-POET
  • TO RECLAIM LOST SPACE
  • A TOWERING STRANGENESS
  • THE POETS IN GHANA
  • NOTES
  • SELECT BIBILIOGRAPHY
  • ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  • INDEX