Oenosthesia - Blending Wine and Music

Oenosthesia - Blending Wine and Music

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 Oenosthesia - Blending Wine and Music
Oenosthesia - Blending Wine and Music
Poetry, wine and music

Poetry, wine and music

Wine might have been described as bottled poetry, but poetry suggests it can sometimes be bottled music, which you can drink with impunity!

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Bacchanal with a wine vat., circa 1475, Mantua, by Andrea Mantegna. Gift of Bishop Monrad, 1869. Te Papa (1869-0001-308)

“O, for a draught of vintage! Tasting of …Provençal song,” wrote the Romantic poet John Keats, in his Ode to a Nightingale. Like many writers since the dawn of wine, music and this most poetic of beverages, mingle in their imagination. Wine is often evoked as an insight-bringing and emotionally enriching substance in its couplings with music. Some poetic metaphors, like that of Keats, are even explicitly crossmodal.

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