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Author Campbell, Matthew (Matthew J. B.)

Title Rhythm and will in Victorian poetry / Matthew Campbell
Published Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1999
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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 272 pages)
Series Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; 22
Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; 22
Contents 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
Summary "In Rhythm and Will in Victorian Poetry, 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."--Jacket
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-268) and index
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Subject Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron, 1809-1892 -- Criticism and interpretation
Browning, Robert, 1812-1889 -- Criticism and interpretation
Hopkins, Gerard Manley, 1844-1889 -- Criticism and interpretation
Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928 -- Poetic works
SUBJECT Browning, Robert, 1812-1889 fast
Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928 fast
Hopkins, Gerard Manley, 1844-1889 fast
Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron, 1809-1892 fast
Tennyson, Alfred, (1809-1892) -- Critique et interprétation. ram
Browning, Robert, (1812-1889) -- Critique et interprétation. ram
Hopkins, Gerard Manley, (1844-1889) -- Critique et interprétation. ram
Hardy, Thomas, (1840-1928) -- Critique et interprétation. ram
Hopkins, Gerard Manley. swd
Hardy, Thomas. swd
Tennyson, Alfred. swd
Browning, Robert. swd
Subject English poetry -- History and criticism.
Will in literature.
Literature and society -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
English language -- 19th century -- Versification
English language -- 19th century -- Rhythm
English poetry -- 19th century -- History and criticism
POETRY -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Criticism and interpretation
English language -- Rhythm
English language -- Versification
English poetry
Literature and society
Will in literature
Rhythmik
Willensfreiheit
Lyrik
Metrik
Ritme.
Vrije wil.
Anglais (langue) -- 19e siècle -- Rythme.
Poésie anglaise -- 19e siècle -- Histoire et critique.
Volonté -- Dans la littérature.
Great Britain
Genre/Form Electronic books
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
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