RHYTHM AND WILL IN VICTORIAN POETRY by Matthew Campbell ( 9780511484117 )

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RHYTHM AND WILL IN VICTORIAN POETRY

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ISBN 10:

0511484119

ISBN 13:

9780511484117

Publisher:

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

22 September, 2009

Series:

Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature & Culture 22

Description:

This 1999 book explores concepts of human will in the poetry of Tennyson, Browning, Hopkins and Hardy.

Synopsis:

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.

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Cambridge University Press (Virtual Publishing)

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