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The Heart's Events
The Victorian Poetry of Relationships
The Heart's Events
The Victorian Poetry of Relationships
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Dr Ball offers an analysis and evaluation of a number of Victorian long poems and groups of lyrics which trace the course of close personal relationships. Her argument is that whereas Romantic treatment of such material was limited, the Victorian poets not only made this emotional territory their own but explored it with vigour, variety and enterprise, and great technical resource. This is apparent, as Dr Ball shows, whether the poets concern themselves with crises such as loss through death – In Memoriam, Patmore's odes of bereavement – or breakdown – Modern Love, Maud, James Lee's Wife – or whether they portray the intricate flux of mutual attraction and courtship, as in Amours de Voyage, The Bothie of Tober-na-Vuolich and The Angel in the House. The Heart's Events brings out strongly the experimental vitality and range of Victorian poetry and, in particular, its sensitive imaginative response to the subtleties of psychological time and change in its records of the inner histories of love.
Table of Contents
I. 'The Difference to Me'
Wordsworth: the Lucy Poems;
Byron: Poems of the Separation
II. 'The Fates, It Is Clear, Are Against Us'
Arnold: the Marguerite Poems;
Clough: Amours de Voyage
III. 'Till All My Widowed Race Be Run'
Patmore: Odes of Bereavement;
Tennyson: In Memoriam
IV. 'If I Be Dear to Someone Else'
Meredith: Modern Love; Tennyson: Maud;
Browning: James Lee's Wife
V. 'To Marry Her and Take Her Home'
Clough: The Bothie of Tober-na-Vuolich;
Patmore: The Angel in the House
Conclusion: The Heart's Events
Index
Product details
| Published | 13 Jan 2014 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (PDF) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 227 |
| ISBN | 9781472507075 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Series | Bloomsbury Academic Collections: English Literary Criticism |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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