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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Victorian poetry"”.
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Radical Conservatism and Victorian Poetry: 1830-1906
… simple break from the past. Where Carlyle deems poetry incapable of regeneration, I suggest otherwise, by reading a series of works in which conventional prosodic forms are revived in equivocal ways that register (and feed off) the rupture of historical experience. Following Carlyle’s example, …
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The poetic oeuvre of 'Michael Field': Collaboration, aestheticism and desire in the writings of Katharine Harris Bradley (1846 - 1914) and Edith Emma Cooper (1862 - 1913)
… Browning and Rossetti are major figures of Victorian poetry, as integral to the canon as Robert Browning, Swinburne or Tennyson, but for nearly a century, despite their formidable reputation in their own time (both women were considered for the position of Poet Laureate), their work was …
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Poetry and piety : the role of verse in mid-Victorian Sunday reading
Mid-Victorian poetry of piety is verse concerned to propagate and sustain simple faith in an age frequently characterised by doubt. The proliferation of 'Sunday verse' may itself be a response to doubt. Section I (Chapters 1-2) establishes the verse's context, and its role within the respectable …
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A Poetics of the Soul: Devotional Poetry in Elizabeth Barrett Browning; Alfred, Lord Tennyson; and Christina Rossetti
This study explores devotional poetry of the nineteenth century as a poetic discourse in which tropes of the human soul connect spiritual reflection with lived experience in order to engage literary, religious, and social issues in Victorian England. Like G. B. Tennyson's Victorian Devotional …
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Religion and Proto-Feminism in Victorian Women's Poetry
This thesis analyzes the Victorian women poets Christina Rossetti, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and Amy Levy and their use of religion in their proto-feminist works, “Goblin Market” (Rossetti), the verse novel Aurora Leigh (Barrett Browning), and the dramatic monologues “Xantippe,” (1881) …
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The laws of verse : the poetry of Alice Meynell and its literary contexts, 1875-1923
… and technical procedures in the field of poetry than has heretofore been available. Examining select specimens of Meynell’s verse in the light of prosodic theories current at the time both she and her Modernist contemporaries were writing further allows us to see, in place of the familiar …
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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 …