1st Edition

The Major Victorian Poets: Reconsiderations (Routledge Revivals)

By Isobel Armstrong Copyright 1969
334 Pages
by Routledge

346 Pages
by Routledge

336 Pages
by Routledge

First published in 1969, this edition collection brings together a series of essays offering a  re-evaluation of Victorian poetry in the light of early 20th Century criticism. The essays in this collection concentrate upon the poets whose reputations suffered from the great redirection of energy in English criticism initiated in this century by Eliot, Richards and Leavis. What... Read more

1. Patterns of Morbidity: Repetition in Tennyson’s Poetry Martin Dodsworth  2. Feminism and Femininity in The Princess Bernard Bergonzi  3. Matter-Moulded Forms of Speech: Tennyson’s Use of Language in In Memoriam Alan Sinfield  4. The Lyric Structure of Tennyson’s Maud A. S. Byatt  5. Browning and the ‘Grotesque’ Style Isobel Armstrong  6. The Importance of Sordello Michael Mason  7. Browning’s ‘Modernity’: The Ring and the Book, and Relativism John Killham  8. The Ring and the Book: The Uses of Prolixity Isobel Armstrong  9. Matthew Arnold and the Passage of Time: A Study of The Scholar-Gipsy and Thyrsis Philip Drew  10. The Importance of Arnold’s Merope Gabriel Pearson  11. Clough’s Self-Consciousness Barbara Hardy  12. Amours de Voyage: The Aqueous Poem John Goode  13. G. M. Hopkins: Victorian A. R. Jones

Biography

Isobel Armstrong