What do we mean by 'voice' in poetry? In this work, David Nowell Smith teases out the diverse meanings of 'voice', from a poem's soundworld to the rhetorical gestures through which poems speak to us, in order to embark on a philosophical exploration of the concept of voice itself.
David Nowell Smith is Lecturer in Literature at the University of East Anglia. He is also author of Sounding/Silence: Martin Heidegger at the Limits of Poetics (2013).
Acknowledgements Voice in Poetry: Opening up a Concept 1. A Natural Scale 2. Vibration and Difference 3. Turnings of the Breath 4. 'The Multitudinous Tongue' 5. Getting the Measure of Voice Bibliography
"Nowell Smith begins and ends with Hopkins, giving circular coherence, but each chapter is individually 'essayistic,' offering a 'speculative poetics.' ... what is explored here is explored brilliantly. ... this is a fascinating work of animation." (Rebecca Varley-Winter, The Goose, Vol. 14 (2), February, 2016)
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