On Voice in Poetry

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.

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)

Autorentext

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).

Inhalt
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