Failure, Transcendence, and Dark Romanticism
by
Charity McAdams
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
Edgar Allan Poe often set the scenes of his stories and poems with music: angels have the heartstrings of lutes, spirits dance, and women speak with melodic voices. These musical ideas appear to mimic the ways other authors, particularly Romanticists, used music in their works to represent a spiritual...