On Voice in Poetry | The Work of Animation | ISBN 9781137308238

On Voice in Poetry

The Work of Animation

Buchcover On Voice in Poetry  | EAN 9781137308238 | ISBN 1-137-30823-0 | ISBN 978-1-137-30823-8

“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)

On Voice in Poetry

The Work of Animation

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.