Printed Voice of Victorian Poetry

Explores the ways in which nineteenth-century English poets¿Tennyson, Browning, Hopkins¿responded creatively to the difference between written and spoken language and the ambiguities involved in writing down their own voices and the melodies of their speech.

List of contents

• 1: The Printed Voice


• 2: Tennyson's Breath


• 3: Companionable Forms


• 4: Hopkins: The Perfection of Habit


• Bibliography

About the author

Eric Griffiths is Fellow in English at Trinity College, Cambridge and Lecturer in English at the University of Cambridge. He is the author of If Not Critical edited by Freya Johnston (OUP, 2018) and co-editor of Dante in English (Penguin, 2005).

Summary

Explores the ways in which nineteenth-century English poets–Tennyson, Browning, Hopkins–responded creatively to the difference between written and spoken language and the ambiguities involved in writing down their own voices and the melodies of their speech.

Product details

• Authors: Eric Griffiths, Eric (Fellow in English Griffiths, Griffiths Eric
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2018
• EAN: 9780198827016
• ISBN: 978-0-19-882701-6
• No. of pages: 368
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Philosophy of Language, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, PHILOSOPHY / Language, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Phonetics, phonology, Literary studies: poetry and poets