Love among the Poets : The Victorian Poetics of Intimacy / edited by Pearl Chaozon Bauer and Erik Gray.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Chaozon-Bauer, Pearl, 1976- editor.

Gray, Erik Irving, 1972- editor.

Series:

Series in Victorian Studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Love poetry, English--History and criticism.

Love poetry, English.

English poetry--19th century--History and criticism.

English poetry.

Great Britain--History--Victoria, 1837-1901.

Great Britain.

Genre:

Literary criticism.

Essays.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vii, 261 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Path to Open

Place of Publication:

Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, [2024]

Summary:

British literature of the Victorian period has always been celebrated for the quality, innovativeness, and sheer profusion of its love poetry. Every major Victorian poet produced notable poems about love. This includes not only canonical figures, such as Alfred Lord Tennyson, Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and Christina Rossetti, but also lesser-known poets whose works have only recently become widely recognized and studied, such as Augusta Webster and the many often anonymous working-class poets whose verses filled the pages of popular periodicals. Modern critics have claimed, convincingly, that love poetry is not just one strain of Victorian poetry among many; it is arguably its representative, even definitive, mode. This collection of essays reconsiders the Victorian poetry of love and, just as importantly, of intimacy-a more inclusive term that comprehends not only romance but love for family, for God, for animals, and for language itself. Together the essays seek to define a poetics of intimacy that arose during the Victorian period and that continues today, a set of poetic structures and strategies by which poets can represent and encode feelings of love. There exist many studies of intimate relations (especially marriage) in Victorian novels. But although poetry rivals the novel in the depth and diversity of its treatment of love, marriage, and intimacy, that aspect of Victorian verse has remained underexamined. emLove among the Poets/em offers an expansive critical overview. With its slate of distinguished contributors, including scholars from the US, Canada, Britain, and Australia, the volume is a wide-ranging account of this vital era of poetry and of its importance for the way we continue to write, love, and live today. -- From the publisher's website.

Contents:

I. Dualities

Christina Rossetti's Echoes: Eros and the Victorian Double Poem / Stephanie L. Johnson

The Revival of Courtly Love 1850-1870: Allegory, Anachronism, and Violence / Matthew Rowlinson

Love Charms / Herbert F. Tucker

The Erotics of Sprung Rhythm / Erik Gray

II. Courtship and Marriage

Love on the Factory Floor: Working-Class Poets and Factory Courtship Verse / Kirstie Blair

All on the threshold: Christina Rossetti's Revisionary Epithalamia / Pearl Chaozon Bauer

The Mathematics of Marriage: Augusta Webster's Combinatory and Fractional Intimacy / Amy Kahrmann Huseby

III. Beyond Erotic Intimacy

Intimacy and the Neologistic Imagination in Hardy and Hopkins / Veronica Alfano

The Secret History of the Sonnet: The Poetics of Maternal Love in Augusta Webster's Mother and Daughter / Josie Billington

The Poetics of Cross-Species Love / Julia F. Saville

Yeats' Intimacies / Francis O'Gorman.

Notes:

Title from online title page (viewed on September 23, 2024).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Love among the poets

ISBN:

0-8214-2545-5

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.