Poetry in the Age of New Sound Technology: Mallarmé to Tennyson

The meaning that sounds carry has always mattered to poetry but in a culture developing new communication technology using sound, the Victorians heard poetry's capacities to signal to the ear anew. This essay considers a number of poets writing after the invention, principally, of Morse code, t...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Francis O’Gorman
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Presses Universitaires de la Méditerranée 2009-12-01
Series:Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens
Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/cve/5811