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...
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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. Cover -- The Printed Voice of Victorian Poetry -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Note on the Text -- Abbreviations -- 1: The Printed Voice -- LISTENING TO HAMLET -- RECORDED SOUNDS: LINGUISTICS AND THE VOICE -- SPEECH ACTS AND ACTS OF WRITING: THE PHILOSOPHY OF LANGUAGE -- THE PRINTED VOICE IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY -- READING A VOICE -- 2: Tennyson's Breath -- TENNYSON'S TWO VOICES -- BREATHING IMMORTALLY -- MORBIDLY SPEAKING -- 3: Companionable Forms -- IDEALS OF MARRIAGE -- THE POETRY OF BEING MARRIED: THE BROWNINGS -- REMAINING FAITHFUL: HARDY -- POETRY AND 'THE SPHERE OF MERE CONTRACT' -- 4: Hopkins: The Perfection of Habit -- EARLY HOPKINS -- THE CONVERSION OF ELOQUENCE -- MAKING YOURSELF HEARD -- 'THE WRECK OF THE DEUTSCHLAND' -- Bibliography -- Index.
Eric Griffiths' lectures were attended by hundreds, yet the lectures were never turned into books. Published here for the first time, the ten lectures range across literary periods and European languages to address, among many other things, practical...
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Eric Griffiths' lectures were attended by hundreds, yet the lectures were never turned into books. Published here for the first time, the ten lectures range across literary periods and European languages to address, among many other things, practical criticism, comedy, and tragedy Cover -- If Not Critical -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Note on texts and editions -- Introduction -- 1: Lists -- 2: Timing -- 3: Timeliness -- 4: Beasts -- 5: A rehearsal of Hamlet -- 6: Inferno 32 and 33 -- 7: French as a literary medium -- 8: Kafkaâs relations -- 9: Primo Levi -- 10: Godforsakenness -- 11: Poems and translations -- Index
