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- Title
"Perchance my hand may touch the lyre": Orality and Textuality in Nineteenth-Century Deaf Poetry.
- Authors
Esmail, Jennifer
- Abstract
The article offers criticism on 19th-century Victorian poetry written by English and American deaf poets, including "Mary" by John Kitto, "Memories of Sound" by Amos Draper, and "The Semi-Mute's Soliloquy" by Fuller Fischer. The author discusses how deaf poets dealt with the orality and sound of poetry and argues that deaf poets used a imagined voice in their poetry. Other deaf poets discussed include John Burnet, James Nack, and Laura Redden Searing.
- Subjects
LITERARY criticism; POETRY (Literary form); DEAF poets; MARY (Poem); KITTO, John; MEMORIES of Sound (Poem); DRAPER, Amos; SEMI-Mute's Soliloquy, The (Poem); FISCHER, Fuller; VICTORIAN (Literary period)
- Publication
Victorian Poetry, 2011, Vol 49, Issue 4, p509
- ISSN
0042-5206
- Publication type
Poetry Review
- DOI
10.1353/vp.2011.0037