JOURNAL ARTICLE

Hear Here: A Homophone in English Poetry.

  • Published In: ELH, 2023, v. 90, n. 2. P. 549 1 of 3

  • Database: Academic Search Ultimate 2 of 3

  • Authored By: Wilson, Ross 3 of 3

Abstract

The words hear and here sound but do not look the same, and in this essay I investigate the significance of this fact in poems by Richard Lovelace, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats, Christina Rossetti, Amiri Baraka, and W. S. Graham. The hear / here homophone raises a number of abiding questions about the relation of the visible and acoustic in the reading of verse, as well as about where the poem exists. I also examine how the relation between the scripted here of the page and what the reader may be said to hear (or not) has been mobilized for ethical, theological, and political purposes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Additional Information

  • Source:ELH. 2023/06, Vol. 90, Issue 2, p549
  • Document Type:Article
  • Subject Area:History
  • Publication Date:2023
  • ISSN:0013-8304
  • DOI:10.1353/elh.2023.a900605
  • Accession Number:169835284
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