This marvelous bookan instant classicexcites, inspires, provokes, and (when provocation does not suit) gently coaxes the reader into accepting its claims. Albright has obviously mulled over the relationships among the literary, visual, and musical arts for many years, yet the result of his meditation is surprisingly fresh.Simon Morrison, Princeton University -- Simon Morrison With astonishing range, quicksilver riffs, and aphorisms to die for, Daniel Albright creates nothing less than a pagan poetics for the modern age. Panaesthetics is Pans aesthetic, an endlessly musical sensibility sublimely at home in a world where Art is everything and everything is Art. Scott Burnham, author of Mozart's Grace -- Scott Burnham In this dazzlingly wide-ranging book, Daniel Albright explores the specificities of literature, painting, and music. But far from seeing the arts as locked into their differences, he mounts a brilliant, intricate argument for their mutual translatability and ultimate unity. Jahan Ramazani, author of Poetry and Its Others: News, Prayer, Song, and the Dialogue of Genres -- Jahan Ramazani In exploring whether there are many different arts, or if there is one that variously takes different forms, Daniel Albright brilliantly shows how the coming-together and splitting-asunder of artistic media is one of the great stories in the intellectual history of the West.Pamela Rosenberg, American Academy in Berlin -- Pamela Rosenberg Challenging and pleasurable . . . Albrights affecting prose produces synaesthetic sensations in the reader . . . Albright posits a unique and complex theory . . . forging a new and unique form of art criticism in the process.Anna Gallagher-Ross, C Magazine -- Anna Gallagher-Ross * C Magazine *
