Author: Linda K. Hughes
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521856248
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 343
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An overview of British poetry from 1830 to 1901, with a glossary of literary terms and guide to further reading.
Author: Joseph Bristow
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521646802
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 364
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This Companion to Victorian Poetry provides an introduction to many of the pressing issues that absorbed the attention of poets from the 1830s to the 1890s. It introduces readers to a range of topics - including historicism, patriotism, prosody, and religious belief. The thirteen specially-commissioned chapters offer insights into the works of well-known figures such as Matthew Arnold, Robert Browning and Alfred Tennyson, and the writings of women poets - like Michael Field, Amy Levy and Augusta Webster - whose contribution to Victorian culture has in more recent years been acknowledged by modern scholars. Revealing the breadth of the Victorians' experiments with poetic form, this Companion also discloses the extent to which their writings addressed the prominent intellectual and social questions of the day. The volume, which will be of interest to scholars and students alike, features a detailed chronology of the Victorian period and a comprehensive guide to further reading.
Author: Linda K. Hughes
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107182476
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 335
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Inclusive, cutting-edge essay collection by leading scholars on Victorian women poets and their diverse poetic forms and identities.
Author: Annmarie Drury
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107079241
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 311
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Explores how Victorian poetry and translation dynamically influenced one another in an age of empire.
Author: Michael D. Hurley
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107376920
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 259
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Michael D. Hurley and Michael O'Neill offer a perceptive and illuminating look into poetic form, a topic that has come back into prominence in recent years. Building on this renewed interest in form, Hurley and O'Neill provide an accessible and comprehensive introduction that will be of help to undergraduates and more advanced readers of poetry alike. The book sees form as neither ornamenting nor mimicking content, but as shaping and animating it, encouraging readers to cultivate techniques to read poems as poems. Lively and wide-ranging, engaging with poems as aesthetic experiences, the book includes a long chapter on the elements of form that throws new light on troubling terms such as rhythm and metre, as well as a detailed introduction and accessible, stimulating chapters on lyric, the sonnet, elegy, soliloquy, dramatic monologue and ballad and narrative.
Author: Matthew Campbell
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139426168
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 292
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In Rhythm and Will in Victorian Poetry, first published in 1999, Matthew Campbell explores the work of four Victorian poets - Tennyson, Browning, Hopkins and Hardy - as they show a consistent and innovative concern with questions of human agency and will. The Victorians saw the virtues attendant upon a strong will as central to themselves and to their culture, and Victorian poetry strove to find an aesthetic form to represent this sense of the human will. Through close study of the metre, rhyme and rhythm of a wide range of poems - including monologue, lyric and elegy - Campbell reveals how closely technical questions of poetics are related, in the work of these poets, to issues of psychology, ethics and social change. He goes on to discuss more general questions of poetics, and the implications of the achievement of the Victorian poets in a wider context, from Milton through Romanticism and into contemporary critical debate.
Author: Linda H. Peterson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107064848
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 323
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Innovative and comprehensive coverage of women writers' careers and literary achievements spanning many literary genres during the Victorian period.
Author: Francis O'Gorman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521886996
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 327
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Stimulating and informative new essays on many aspects of nineteenth-century culture.
Author: Hugh Walker
Publisher: Cambridge : University Press
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1112
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Author: Jane Ogborn
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521627108
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 248
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"But who hath seen her wave her hand? Or at the casement seen her stand? Or is she known in all the land, The Lady of Shalott?" Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning are the three nineteenth-century poets explored in this collection. The mixture of complete poems and extracts introduces readers to the variety of narrative and lyric work which forms an important part of the English literary heritage. This edition aims to help the exploration of the qualities which made these poets popular during the reign of Queen Victoria, transporting readers to a world of romance, myth and fantasy. . . Cambridge Literature is a series of study texts which presents writing in the English-speaking world from the 16th century up to the present day. The series includes novels, drama, short stories, poetry, essays and other types of non-fiction. Each edition has the complete text with an appropriate glossary. The student will find in each volume a helpful introduction and a full section of resource notes encouraging active and imaginative study methods.
