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title: 'Music and Poetry: Essays upon Some Aspects and Inter-Relations of the Two Arts'
type: pdf
hasMedia: true
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authors:
- 'Sidney Clopton Lanier, Sr.'
date: 1905-01-01
collection: 'Archives'
subcollection: '20th century'
topics:
- 'Aesthetics'
- 'Art'
- 'Poetry'
scriptures:
- 'Psalms 150'
- 'Psalms 98'
- 'Psalms 19'
url: https://confessional.org/archives/20th-century/lanier-1905-music-and-poetry-essays-upon-some-aspects-and-inter-relations-of-the-two-arts
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# Music and Poetry: Essays upon Some Aspects and Inter-Relations of the Two Arts

Sidney Lanier's essays examine the interrelation of music and poetry, arguing music's unique, non-linguistic power, defending programme music and exploring the physics of sound.

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