A Voice From the Attic - Definition

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 in 1960, it was republished during the early 1990s. In the foreword to the 1990s edition, Davies writes that while the essays are thirty-five to forty years old, they remain strongly relevant. The essays 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.