Description: Poets, literary critics, and lovers of poetry often speak of the "music of poetry." This book gives substance to the metaphor by building on recent research in linguistics and music theory to propose a theory of the sounds of poetry conceived in musical terms.
Review Quotes: Drawing on decades of musical theory, The Sounds of Poetry Viewed as Music offers a fresh alternative to traditional literary and generative metrics approaches, redefining our understanding of poetry's structure. Concise yet profound, it bridges poetry, music, and linguistic theory in bold new ways.--Nigel Fabb, emeritus professor of literary linguistics, University of Strathclyde