Poetry and the Physical Voice by Francis Berry - 9781041108092

Poetry and the Physical VoiceAuthor(s): Francis Berry\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781041108092, 978-1041108092\nSynopsis\nFirst published in 1962, Poetry and the Physical Voice is a companion volume to authors Poets Grammar and its conclusions might well be related to his own recently published collection, Morant Bay and Other Poems. An enquiry as to how far the fact- that poetry is vocal sound- was modified by the invention of printing. The eye-perusal of some kinds of prose, and even of verse, is one thing, the recognition of an individual voice behind an unsigned passage of poetry is another. Shakespeare, for a career, wrote words to be spoken by voices which he could hear in imagination since their owners were well known to him, but Tennyson composed aloud and so was confined to effects which his own voice could produce.\n\nBesides Shakespeare and Tennyson, Mr Berry considers other poets, including some who.