UID:
almahu_9947414377002882
Format:
1 online resource (xiv, 272 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
9780511484117 (ebook)
Series Statement:
Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; 22
Content:
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.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
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Introduction: two decisions -- Rhythms of will -- Tennyson, Browning and the absorbing soul -- Browning and the element of action -- ''Tis well that I should bluster': Tennyson's monologues -- The drift of In memoriam -- Incarnating elegy in The wreck of the Deutschland -- The mere continuator: Thomas Hardy and the end of elegy.
Additional Edition:
Print version: ISBN 9780521642958
Language:
English
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511484117
