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.