Rhythm and will in Victorian poetry / Matthew Campbell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Campbell, Matthew (Matthew J. B.), author.

Series:

Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; 22.

Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; 22

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron, 1809-1892--Criticism and interpretation.

Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson.

Browning, Robert, 1812-1889--Criticism and interpretation.

Browning, Robert.

Hopkins, Gerard Manley, 1844-1889--Criticism and interpretation.

Hopkins, Gerard Manley.

Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928--Poetic works.

Hardy, Thomas.

English poetry--History and criticism.

English poetry.

Will in literature.

Literature and society--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Literature and society.

English language--19th century--Versification.

English language.

English language--19th century--Rhythm.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 272 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Rhythm & Will in Victorian Poetry

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1999.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

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.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-268) and index.

ISBN:

1-107-11128-5

0-511-00481-8

1-280-15374-1

0-511-11742-6

0-511-14926-3

0-511-30955-4

0-511-48411-9

0-511-05184-0

OCLC:

437250274