Susan Reid is the editor of the Journal of D. H. Lawrence Studies, co-editor of the Edinburgh Companion to D. H. Lawrence and the Arts (under contract, 2020) and Katherine Mansfield and Literary Modernism (2011), and author of numerous articles and book chapters on Lawrence and other modernist writers.

1 Introduction: "Words Writ to the Music"

2 "The Insidious Mastery of Song": Cadence and Decadence in the Early Poems

3 Lawrence's Case of Wagner: The White Peacock and The Trespasser

4 "Between Heaven and Earth": Space, Music, and Religion in The Rainbow

5 "Beyond the Sound of Words": Harmony and Polyphony in Women in Love

6 Music, Noise, and the First World War: "All of Us", Bay and Aaron's Rod

7 New World Musicals: The Plumed Serpent and David

8 Conclusion: Aspiring to the Condition of Song

9 Afterword: Anthony Burgess's D.H. Lawrence Suite