Kenneth A. Loparo 
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.

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Acknowledgements Voice in Poetry: Opening up a Concept 1. A Natural Scale 2. Vibration and Difference 3. Turnings of the Breath 4. ‘The Multitudinous Tongue’ 5. Getting the Measure of Voice Bibliography

Circa l’autore

David Nowell Smith is Lecturer in Literature at the University of East Anglia. He is also author of Sounding/Silence: Martin Heidegger at the Limits of Poetics (2013).