About this book
After Music by Josephine Preston Peabody unfurls like a delicate score, where poetry, music, and nature converge in lyric meditation. Josephine Preston Peabody—an American poet and dramatist educated at Radcliffe—melds classical learning with melodic lines to explore how sound shapes thought and feeling.
The collection moves between intimate nature scenes and philosophical reflection, using musical imagery to probe memory, longing, and the ethics of beauty. Across lyric and didactic pieces, Peabody’s language is attentive to rhythm and tone: birdsong, wind, and human voices become metaphors for larger questions about creativity, instruction, and the harmony (and dissonance) of life. Set against the turn-of-the-century American literary landscape, these poems balance formal grace with accessible insight, inviting readers to slow down and listen.
Ideal for listeners who love poetry, nature writing, and philosophical verse, After Music rewards repeat listening—the audiobook format highlights Peabody’s musical cadences and subtle emotional shifts. Fans of lyrical, reflective poetry and anyone curious about early 20th-century American poets will find this collection a quietly illuminating companion.
