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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Nineteenth-Century Poetry"”.
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Romantic Languor: Images of Passivity in Romantic Poetry
Late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century poetry is filled with images of passivity to higher forces. Most common is the figure of the reclining poet, who invites inspiration or mystical, visionary experiences by relaxing mind and body and allowing wise, benevolent powers in nature or the
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Fossil Poetry, theBirth of Geology, and the Romantic Imagination, 1790-1860
<p>Neither nineteenth-century poetry nor early geology can be completely understood without exploring the synergistic relationship between the two disciplines, their shared 'matrix.' Poetry and geology continually intersected throughout the infancy of the science, with geologists admiring the power …
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Interpretations of Richard Wagner's Music Drama in English-Language Poetry and Poetics (1848-1924)
… this situation. Its main argument engages nineteenth-century poetry, revealing how Wagner affected nineteenth-century verse-writing practices: how his alliterating librettos gave new resources to Medievalist, decadent and socialist poets. It identifies a peculiar Wagnerian style in poetry …
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Apocalyptic care : the renewal of creation in Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Christina Rossetti, and Gerard Manley Hopkins.
… poets. In my dissertation, I study the religious poetry of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Christina Rossetti, and Gerard Manley Hopkins and challenge those prevailing assumptions through taking the poets' religious commitments seriously as sources of hope and aesthetic formation. Ultimately, I …
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Swinburne's "The Tale of Balen": an Edition with Critical Commentary
Warren Hill Kelly's <italic>Swinburne's <underline>The Tale of Balen</underline>: an Edition with Critical Commentary</italic> comprises a variorum-like edition of the poem that records all variances of the poem evident in its manuscript through its first and second editions, Chatto & Windus 1896 …
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"In Death Thy Life is Found": An Examination of the Forgotten Poetry of Margaret Fuller.
… very little has focused on the varied body of poetry she composed during her brief life. By dividing her poetic works into three categories – those written to an early “lover,” those focusing on the theme of androgyny, and those written during her “mature period” of 1844 – one is better able to …