Karen Simecek is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Warwick University, UK.

• Introduction 1. Philosophy of Lyric Voice 2. Reading Voices; Hearing Voices 3. A Sense of Us: Individual and Collective Voices 4. Embodied Voices 5. Poetic CognitivismIndex

In this engaging and subtly argued study, Karen Simecek draws illuminating comparisons between poetry on the page and poetry in performance, shedding new light on the thought that both, in classical terms, can in their own ways “instruct” as well as give “pleasure”.

Karen Simecek is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Warwick University, UK.

• Introduction 1. Philosophy of Lyric Voice 2. Reading Voices; Hearing Voices 3. A Sense of Us: Individual and Collective Voices 4. Embodied Voices 5. Poetic CognitivismIndex

In this engaging and subtly argued study, Karen Simecek draws illuminating comparisons between poetry on the page and poetry in performance, shedding new light on the thought that both, in classical terms, can in their own ways “instruct” as well as give “pleasure”.

Karen Simecek is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Warwick University, UK.

• Introduction 1. Philosophy of Lyric Voice 2. Reading Voices; Hearing Voices 3. A Sense of Us: Individual and Collective Voices 4. Embodied Voices 5. Poetic CognitivismIndex

In this engaging and subtly argued study, Karen Simecek draws illuminating comparisons between poetry on the page and poetry in performance, shedding new light on the thought that both, in classical terms, can in their own ways “instruct” as well as give “pleasure”.