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The Music Lover's Poetry Anthology by Helen Handley Houghton and Maureen McCarthy Draper is a work of literary fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Music Lover's Poetry Anthology about?
<p><B>"Here, in a precedent-setting collection, are the master singers."—Carol Muske-Dukes</B><BR><BR>Poetry and music share countless virtues, affecting us in many of the same ways. We respond to their lyricism, move to their rhythms, and anticipate their refrains. In antiquity, the two forms were one and the same, performed together, not as prima donna and accompanist, but as inseparable aspects of a single piece.<BR><BR><I>The Music Lover's Poetry Anthology</I> celebrates this timeless connection with more than 150 extraordinary poems written with music as their muse. Through them, we experience the power of music to enthrall, evoke, and inspire, whether in opera houses, on road trips, or in the unexpected interior worlds to which music escorts us. The book's nine sections—Listening to Music; Songs and Singing; Performances; Composers; Opera; Jazz and Blues; The Piano and Piano Lessons; Horns, Woodwinds, and Strings; and Music in Nature—include an exceptional array of poets: the most eminent versifiers from today and centuries past, as well as an exciting selection of lesser-known discoveries and rediscoveries.<BR><BR>While the poems in <I>The Music Lover's Po
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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Helen Handley Houghton and Maureen McCarthy Draper
- Publisher
- Persea Books, Incorporated
- Published
- 2007
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780892553334
- Category
- work of literary fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Fiction, Education
- Rating
- 3.71 / 5 (17 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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