Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Sound’s Work: An Introduction 1
4. Listening Thresholds 19
5. Tennyson’s Hum 49
6. Humming Tennyson: Christina Rossetti and Virginia Woolf 70
7. Pennies and Horseplay: W. B. Yeats’s Recalls 96
8. “Coo-ee”: Calling Walter de La Mare, Edward Thomas, Robert Frost 117
9. A Book, a Face, a Phantom: Walter de la Mare’s “The Green Room” 145
10. Hearing Something: Robert Frost, Elizabeth Bishop, Jorie Graham 158
11. “Wherever You Listen From”: W. S. Graham’s Art of the Letter 181
12. Incarnations in the Ear: Hearing Presence in Les Murray 203
13. Justifying Time in Ticks and Tocks 226
14. Poetry’s Knowing: So What Do We Know? 251
15. Bibliography 273
16. Acknowledgments 287
17. Index 291