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A literary analysis of the short story "The Gambler, the Nun, and the Radio" by Ernest Hemingway is presented. It examines how the optimism of the story and interconnected elements used by Hemingway were influenced by the musical genre of variations. Particular attention is also given to the theme of pain and how its experience varies from person to person.

The article presents the views of several writers Jack M. Stein and Frank Glass about the relationhip between poetry and music in the book of essay "Opera and Drama" by German composer Richard Wagner. Topics include the principle of a parallelism involving Wagner's theoretical writings and music dramas, the importance of the improvisation from poet into mime, and the analysis on Wagner's stage works such as opera's general structure.

The article discusses the essays of German composer Richard Wagner in 1879. Topics include his instructions for the staging of his music drama "Der Ring des Nibelungen," his most significant works which are the books "Opera and Drama," "Art and Revolution," and "The Art-Work of the Future," and the completion of "Religion and Art" in July 1880.

The article discusses the relationship between poetry and music in the writings of German composer Richard Wagner. Topics mentioned include how love remains in the androgynous union of poetry and music in the essay "Opera and Drama," the devotion to the composer of the Ninth Symphony which is presented in his novella "Eine Pilgerfahrt zu Beethoven" in 1840, and how instrumental music grasped the idea of the drama that recalls the relationship between poem and music in the theoretical writings.

Chapter 3 of the book "Fascinating Rhythm: Reading Jazz in American Writing," by David Yaffe is presented. It explores how poets like Hart Crane, Langston Hughes, and Wallace Stevens identified themselves with jazz. It discusses the role of this type of music in American culture as depicted in the poetic misreadings of jazz. It examines the aspects which are revealed in jazz poems.

Chapter 8 of the book "Race & Resistance: African Americans in the Twenty-First Century" is presented. It talks about word music which is poetry and music in one like the African American word Djali which is a geo-socio-aesthetic portrait of the world that means to promote laughter. It explains language as the oldest record of human life. It discusses Paul Robeson's work on backgrounds of Afro-American music talking about the pentatonic scale, the blues and black notes.

Chapter 3 of the book "The Thing About Roy Fisher: Critical Studies," edited by John Kerrigan and Peter Robinson is presented. It explores the history of jazz and the styles of jazz musicians during and after the Second World War, in association with freedom and with the working class of society. It narrates the childhood of British Roy Fisher, highlighting the struggles of being left-handed and his beginnings as a poet and jazz pianist in the U.S.

The article presents a definition of the term MUSIC AND POETRY (Gr. mousike, "the art of the Muses"). Our best evidence about primitive song suggests that melodies and rhythms precede words, that the first step toward p. was the fitting of words to pre-existent musical patterns. Primitive cultures did not make the distinctions we now make between m. and p.: the Egyptian "hymn of the seven vowels," for example, appears to have exploited the overtone pitches present in the vowels of any lang.

The article presents Chapter II of Part I of the book "The Science of English Verse," by Sidney Lanier. It explores the association between the English verses and sounds or the verse-sound and the importance of syllables in prose or verse literary form. It discusses the relationship between duration and rhythm and the difference of emphasis, stress, or accent in intensity. Furthermore, it highlights the significance of rhythm in music notation and the phrase of music in some Shakespearian verse.

The article presents Chapter I of the book "The Science of English Verse," by Sidney Lanier. It explores the study of a verse of a formal poem and the relation between sounds with four particulars including duration or length of sound, intensity or loudness, and pitch. It highlights the relationship between rhythm and duration, tune and pitch, and alliteration and tone-color. Furthermore, it discusses the generic and specific tone-colors of the human speaking-voice.

The article presents an interpretation of the figure of androgyny in two different orders of discourse such as the link between androgyny and the relationship between poetry and music as conceptualized by German composer Richard Wagner. Topics include the interpretation of some writers to the contradictions that characterize the oeuvre of Wagner, the recognition of some writers to the changes that are existing in Wagner's outlook, and the adoption of some writers to unitarian perspective.

The article presents an encyclopedia entry for Stanley Crouch, a critic of social issues, music and literature. He is considered as one of the most influential and devoted aficionados and critics of jazz music to emerge in the last quarter of the twentieth century. A brief overview is given on how he started in the profession.

The article presents the author's perspectives on the acceptance of the divorce between music and poetry. The author mentions that poetry scarcely exist if music were an important ornament of lyrical verse. The author states that the beauty expressed by the ear of lyrics is interchanged for another and a contender species of beauty, by the most sharp musical setting that can be invented by a composer.

An introduction to the book "Modern Scottish Minstrel," Volumes VI, by Charles Rogers is presented.