That music became a metaphor for self-consciousness among philosophers and poets should not surprise us; its presence is implicit in the discourse of music itself.
- Poetry and the Romantic Musical Aesthetic
James Donelan is the English Department / CCS Literature Program Coordinator at UC Santa Barbara. For ten years, he was a Lecturer in the UCSB Writing Program; he also taught English and German at Yale University, where he received his B.A. and Ph. D. in comparative literature. He recently published Poetry and the Romantic Musical Aesthetic (Cambridge University Press, 2008), a study of Holderlin, Hegel, Wordsworth, and Beethoven. He writes frequently on music, art, and theater for the Santa Barbara Independent and is currently pursuing several projects on the relationship between musical culture and the history of philosophy and literature.
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