Introduction: Words for Music: In Search of the Irish Omphalos 1. The Auditory Imagination of Thomas Moore 2. W.B.Yeats and the Music of Poetry 3. Why J.M. Synge Abandoned Music 4. Opera and Drama: Bernard Shaw and 'The Brandy of the Damned' 5. The 'Thought-Tormented Music' of James Joyce 6. Words after Music: Samuel Beckett after Joyce 7. Operas of the Irish Mind: Brian Friel and Music 8. Words Alone: Seamus Heaney, Music, and the Jurisdiction of Literary Forms Select Bibliography
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