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Rhythm and Will in Victorian Poetry

By Matthew Campbell

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
1999
ISBN
0521642957, 9780521642958
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (3199272 bytes)
Series
Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
Edition
First Edition
Pages
290\290
Time added
2013-11-27 02:52:54

Description

Matthew Campbell explores the work of four Victorian poets--Tennyson, Browning, Hopkins and Hardy--in the context of their concern with questions of human agency and will. Through close study of meter, rhyme and rhythm, Campbell reveals how closely, for these poets, questions of poetics are related to issues of psychology, ethics and social change. He goes on to discuss more general questions of poetics, from Milton through Romanticism and into contemporary critical debate, making a major contribution to the current renewal of interest in formalist readings of poetry.

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