Victorian Poetry articles from June 2006

Victorian Poetry archives from June 2006

Clough, bankruptcy, and disbelief: the economic background to "Blank Misgivings".(Arthur Hugh Clough)(essay)(Victorian poetry)(Critical essay)
June 22, 2006... Perhaps belatedly in contrast to criticism of Victorian fiction, over the past fifteen years or so several major commentators have directed attention to the relation between Victorian poetry and Victorian commerce. Alan Sinfield's rereading of...

"What profits me my name?" The aesthetic potential of the commodified name in Lancelot and Elaine.(Victorian poetry)(essay)(Critical essay)
June 22, 2006... A kind of waking trance I have frequently had, quite up from boyhood, when I have been all alone. This has generally come upon me thro' repeating my own name two or three times to myself silently, til all at once, as it were out of the...

Written in blood: the art of mothering epic in the poetry of Elizabeth Barrett Browning.(essay)(Critical essay)
June 22, 2006... At age thirteen, Elizabeth Barrett Browning composed her first "epic" poem, "The Battle of Marathon," inspired by her hope to become the female Homer. (1) Later in her life, however, she rejected the limitations of an epic inspired by the past....

Increasing suspicion about Browning's Grammarian.(Robert Browning)(Victorian poetry)(essay)(Critical essay)
June 22, 2006... Is it merely coincidence that three essays from the relatively small cluster of discussions dealing with "A Grammarian's Funeral" use questions in their titles? (1) Or is there something about the poem that is subtly disturbing, tantalizingly...

Gender and sexual anxiety in Browning's "Waring" and "The Guardian-Angel".(Victorian poetry)(essay)(Critical essay)
June 22, 2006... Browning's "Waring" emerged as "a fancy portrait of a very dear friend" Alfred Domett, (1) "who left England on April 30, 1842 for New Zealand (where he was later briefly Prime Minister)." (2) First published in Dramatic Lyrics (1842), it was...

Fathering graces at Hampstead: Manley Hopkins' "The Old Trees" and Gerard Manley Hopkins' "Binsey Poplars".(essay)(Victorian poetry)(Critical essay)
June 22, 2006... On January 23, 1879, a letter which began four days earlier on January 19, Hopkins wrote to Robert Bridges from Oxford: I enclose some lines by my father, called forth by the proposal to fell the trees in Well Walk (where Keats and other...

Shades of gray: a diachronic reading of Thomas Hardy's "Neutral Tones".(Victorian poetry)(essay)(Critical essay)
June 22, 2006... History has given names to many ages in the life of the world; ours is the age of words. --E. J. Phelps, 1889 Richard Chenevix Trench, drawing on Coleridge and Emerson in On the Study of Words, suggested to his Victorian audience that...