A Voice from the Attic

First edition

A Voice From the Attic is a collection of Robertson Davies' essays about reading aimed at intelligent and thoughtful readers, whom he calls the "clerisy". Initially published by McClelland and Stewart in 1960, A Voice From the Attic was republished during the early 1990s.

In the foreword to the 1990s edition, Davies wrote that while the essays were thirty-five to forty years old, they remained highly relevant. They run from musings on whether or not speed of reading and quality of reading are necessarily coincident, or even congruent, to essays on the nature of the popular book, to essays on the difference between the clerisy and the critic.

References

Works by Robertson Davies

Novels	The Salterton Trilogy Tempest-Tost Leaven of Malice A Mixture of Frailties The Deptford Trilogy Fifth Business The Manticore World of Wonders The Cornish Trilogy The Rebel Angels What's Bred in the Bone The Lyre of Orpheus The "Toronto Trilogy" Murther and Walking Spirits The Cunning Man

Fictional essays	The Diary of Samuel Marchbanks The Table Talk of Samuel Marchbanks Samuel Marchbanks' Almanack The Papers of Samuel Marchbanks

Critical essays	A Voice from the Attic The Well-Tempered Critic Happy Alchemy The Enthusiasms of Robertson Davies

Miscellaneous	Samuel Marchbanks High Spirits For Your Eye Alone

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