Title Rhythm and Will in Victorian Poetry

Published London : Cambridge University Press, 1999

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Description 1 online resource (290 pages) Series Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture, 22 Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture, 22 Contents Preliminaries; Contents; Preface and acknowledgements; Texts used; 1 Introduction: two decisions; 2 Rhythms of Will; 3 Tennyson, Browning and the absorbing soul; 4 Browning and the element of action; 5 ''Tis well that I should bluster': Tennyson's monologues; 6 The drift of In Memoriam; 7 Incarnating elegy in The Wreck of the Deutschland; 8 The mere continuator: Thomas Hardy and the end of elegy; Notes; Bibliography; Index; Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture Summary Matthew Campbell explores the work of Tennyson, Browning, Hopkins and Hardy in the context of their concern with questions of human agency and will, and discusses more general questions of poetics. His book makes a major contribution to the current renewal of interest in formalist readings of poetry Notes Print version record Subject English language -- 19th century -- Rhythm English language -- 19th century -- Versification English poetry -- History and criticism. Literature and society -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century Will in literature. English language -- Rhythm English language -- Versification English poetry Literature and society Will in literature Great Britain Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780511051845 0511051840

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