Taylor's Version: The Poetic and Musical Genius of Taylor Swift by Burt, Stephanie
Taylor's Version: The Poetic and Musical Genius of Taylor Swift by Burt, Stephanie

Taylor's Version: The Poetic and Musical Genius of Taylor Swift

"With unfailing lucidity, empathy, and wit" (Greil Marcus), a preeminent Harvard professor and poetry expert explains the...
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Author: Stephanie Burt
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Taylor's Version: The Poetic and Musical Genius of Taylor Swift by Burt, Stephanie

Taylor's Version: The Poetic and Musical Genius of Taylor Swift

$45.59
Taylor's Version: The Poetic and Musical Genius of Taylor Swift by Burt, Stephanie

Taylor's Version: The Poetic and Musical Genius of Taylor Swift

$45.59
Author: Stephanie Burt
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Description
"With unfailing lucidity, empathy, and wit" (Greil Marcus), a preeminent Harvard professor and poetry expert explains the artistry--and the celebrity--of Taylor Swift

Taylor Swift has become a peerless superstar, ceaselessly productive and internationally beloved. From her teen country debut to her Eras tour and beyond, Swift's career and her creations have captivated and bewitched us, opening up new ways to see both her life and our own.

In Taylor's Version, the poet and literary scholar Stephanie Burt offers an insightful and heartfelt critical appreciation of Taylor Swift, her body of work, and the community that her art has fostered. Drawing from her 2024 Harvard course, Taylor Swift and Her World, as well as from her years as a Swiftie, Burt examines Swift's particular form of genius - not the destructive genius of tortured poets, but the collaborative and joyful genius of an artist who has mastered her craft. She highlights the ways Swift's work remains at once intimate and relatable, portraying people we feel that we know and people we wish we could be, from the first loves and girlhoods on Fearless through the public and private angst of Midnights. How does she do it (with a broken heart)?

Tracing a path through the Eras, Taylor's Version shows what Swift has created, how it works, and why her songs will endure.

Author: Stephanie Burt
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 10/07/2025
Pages: 352
Binding Type: Hardcover
Size: 8.50h x 5.75w x 1.01d
ISBN: 9781541606234


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 07/01/2025
Publishers Weekly 09/08/2025

About the Author
Stephanie Burt is Donald P. and Katherine B. Loker Professor of English at Harvard University. Her work appears in the New York Times Book Review, the New Yorker, and the London Review of Books, among others. Her other books of poetry and literary criticism--fourteen in all--include We Are Mermaids, Advice from the Lights, and Don't Read Poetry: A Book About How to Read Poems. She lives in Massachusetts.
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