The figure of music in nineteenth-century British poetry

How was music depicted in and mediated through Romantic and Victorian poetry?

This is the central question that this specially commissioned volume of essays sets out to explore in order to understand better music's place and its significance in nineteenth-century British culture.

Analysing how music took part in and commented on a wide range of scientific, literary, and cultural discourses, the book expands our knowledge of how music was central to the nineteenth-century imagination.