The printed voice of Victorian poetry / Eric Griffiths.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Griffiths, Eric.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English poetry--19th century--History and criticism.

English poetry.

Speech in literature.

Oral interpretation of poetry.

Physical Description:

xiv, 369 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford [Oxfordshire] : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1989.

Summary:

This book examines the ways in which 19th-century English poets Tennyson, Browning, and Hopkins responded creatively to the ambiguities involved in writing down their own voices, the melodies of their speech. Asserting that intonation, accent, tempo, and pitch of utterance can be inferred from a written text but are not clearly demonstrated, Griffiths provides original readings of the poets' work. He also examines the major preoccupations of the period--immortality, morbidity, marriage, social divisions, and religious conversions--to offer a new analysis of Victorian Poetry.

Notes:

Includes index.

Bibliography: pages [359]-366.

ISBN:

0198129890 :

OCLC:

17954524