200 Pages
by
Routledge
200 Pages
by
Routledge
200 Pages
by
Routledge
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The Victorian poetry of sexual love between men and women has not been as fully studied as other components of the imaginative literature of the period, and some of the attention it has received has been more concerned with the society and ideology of the age than with the poetry or the love. This study attempts an integrated account of the three elements, with particular emphasis on the close... Read more
Contents: Introduction; Browning's Lessons in Love; Tennyson's Delicate Vessels; Unkissed Lips: Women and Love; Clough's Compasses to Steer By; Physic for Adults: Meredith's Modern Love; The Old High Way Of Love: Morris and Dante Rossetti; Love Elegies: Patmore and Hardy; Continuities; List of Works Cited; Index.
Biography
Kerry McSweeney is a retired professor of Literature at McGill University, Department of English.
’Warmly recommended to all students of Victorian culture who want to learn more about a period erroneously thought prudish, priggish, and repressed.’ Choice
