Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Words for music : in search of the Irish Omphalos
  • The auditory imagination of Thomas Moore
  • W.B. Yeats and the music of poetry
  • Why J.M. Synge abandoned music
  • Opera and drama : Bernard Shaw and "The brandy of the damned"
  • The 'thought-tormented music' of James Joyce
  • Words after music : Samuel Beckett after Joyce
  • Operas of the Irish mind : Brian Friel and music
  • Words alone : Seamus Heaney, music, and the jurisdiction of literary forms.