Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Audition and attachment
  • Close encounters (i)
  • Close encounters (ii)
  • The ethics of things
  • Music vs. conscience
  • Captivation and liberty in poems on music
  • The moral sublime
  • Independence and interdependence
  • Surviving death
  • The poetics of life
  • Envoy : Wordsworth's afterlives.