The major Victorian poets : reconsiderations /

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TextLanguage: English Publication details: London, Routledge & K. Paul, 1969.Description: vii, 323, p. 23 cmISBN:

0710063806

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821.809 ARM

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Cover Page Half Title page Title Page Copyright Page Original Title Page Original Copyright Page Acknowledgements Contents Introduction I Patterns Of Morbidity: Repetition In Tennyson's Poetry Notes 2 Feminism and Femininity in the Princess II III Notes 3 Matter-Moulded Forms Of Speech: Tennyson's Use Of Language In In Memoriam Notes 4 The Lyric Structure of Tennyson's Maud II III IV V VI Notes 5 Browning and the ‘Grotesque' Style Notes The Importance of Sordello Notes 7 Browning's ‘Modernity': The Ring and the Book, and Relativism Notes 8 The Ring and the Book: The Uses of Prolixity I II III Notes 9 Matthew Arnold and The Passage Of Time: A Study of The Scholar-Gipsy and Thyrsis I II III IV V VI Notes 10 The Importance of Arnold's Merope Notes 11 Clough's Self-Consciousness I II III Notes Amours De Voyage: The Aqueous Poem I II III Notes 13 G. M. Hopkins: Victorian I II III IV Notes Index

Summary: First published in 1969, this edition collection brings together a series of essays offering a re-evaluation of Victorian poetry in the light of early 20th Century criticism. The essays in this collection concentrate upon the poets whose reputations suffered from the great redirection of energy in English criticism initiated in this century by Eliot, Richards and Leavis. What theses poets wrote about, the values they expressed, the form of the poems, the language they used, all these were examined and found wanting in some radical way. One of the results of this criticism was the renewal of interest in metaphysical and eighteenth-century poetry and corresponding ebb of enthusiasm for Romantic poetry and for Victorian poetry in particular. Most of the essays in this book take as their starting point questions raised by the debate on Victorian poetry, both earlier in this century and in the more recent past. There are essays on the poetry of Tennyson, Browning and Arnold, on that of Clough, who until recently has been neglected, and Hopkins, because of, rather than in spite of, the fact that he is usually considered to be a modern poet. The volume is especially valuable in that it will give a clearer understanding of the nature of Victorian poetry, concentrating as it does on those areas of a poet’s work where critical discussion seems most necessary.

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Cover Page
Half Title page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Original Title Page
Original Copyright Page
Acknowledgements
Contents
Introduction
I Patterns Of Morbidity: Repetition In Tennyson's Poetry
Notes
2 Feminism and Femininity in the Princess
II
III
Notes
3 Matter-Moulded Forms Of Speech: Tennyson's Use Of Language In In Memoriam
Notes
4 The Lyric Structure of Tennyson's Maud
II
III
IV
V
VI
Notes
5 Browning and the ‘Grotesque' Style
Notes
The Importance of Sordello
Notes
7 Browning's ‘Modernity': The Ring and the Book, and Relativism
Notes
8 The Ring and the Book: The Uses of Prolixity
I
II
III
Notes
9 Matthew Arnold and The Passage Of Time: A Study of The Scholar-Gipsy and Thyrsis
I
II
III
IV
V
VI
Notes
10 The Importance of Arnold's Merope
Notes
11 Clough's Self-Consciousness
I
II
III
Notes
Amours De Voyage: The Aqueous Poem
I
II
III
Notes
13 G. M. Hopkins: Victorian
I
II
III
IV
Notes
Index

First published in 1969, this edition collection brings together a series of essays offering a re-evaluation of Victorian poetry in the light of early 20th Century criticism. The essays in this collection concentrate upon the poets whose reputations suffered from the great redirection of energy in English criticism initiated in this century by Eliot, Richards and Leavis. What theses poets wrote about, the values they expressed, the form of the poems, the language they used, all these were examined and found wanting in some radical way. One of the results of this criticism was the renewal of interest in metaphysical and eighteenth-century poetry and corresponding ebb of enthusiasm for Romantic poetry and for Victorian poetry in particular. Most of the essays in this book take as their starting point questions raised by the debate on Victorian poetry, both earlier in this century and in the more recent past. There are essays on the poetry of Tennyson, Browning and Arnold, on that of Clough, who until recently has been neglected, and Hopkins, because of, rather than in spite of, the fact that he is usually considered to be a modern poet. The volume is especially valuable in that it will give a clearer understanding of the nature of Victorian poetry, concentrating as it does on those areas of a poet’s work where critical discussion seems most necessary.

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